Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers 256
Bourdain writes "Gizmodo has put together a good compilation of the — seemingly almost criminally — misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from our favorite local monopolies. My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook."
need more speed! (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently I need a faster connection to use sla
Facebook bloat (Score:5, Funny)
My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook.
Have you tried to use Facebook recently? Sounds about right!
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:1, Funny)
Would you like an EXTRA big ass fries!?
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:3, Funny)
Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?
They're smart engineers. [xkcd.com]
3mbps for facebook... (Score:5, Funny)
Block the ads, and you can probably get away with 300 baud..
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:5, Funny)
Fusion Power Stealth... [youtube.com] yep.
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:5, Funny)
- Naturally Aspirated
- Venturi Affected Plenum Chamber
- Forced Induction (Blown)
- F1 (120% Volumetric Efficiency
Sign-ups seem slow...
Re:Facebook bloat (Score:3, Funny)
Dad?
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:5, Funny)
Pffft. My ISP goes to 11.
They're right, 3mbps IS required for facebook (Score:4, Funny)
They're right, 3mbps IS required for facebook.
I mean, otherwise your torrents might slow to a crawl...
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:4, Funny)
But can I get your service with a hemi?
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:5, Funny)
- Forced Induction (Blown)
Give me 20 minutes with an air compressor and one of their marketing executives and I'll show them what forced induction is all about.
Re:I love some of their plans (Score:4, Funny)
Wait for the Gillette Fusion Power Stealth Extreme Plus 3000.
Re:Facebook bloat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No difference in cars (Score:1, Funny)
The overall effect is hardly bad, from the consumer's point of view. My 1977 Ferrari 308GTB gets regularly blown into the weeds by those 250 HP Honda Accords.
Re:Facebook bloat (Score:5, Funny)
Your bandwidth is irrelevant. You just need something on the order of a quad-core i7 to handle the Javascript.
Of course, that doesn't help with the other bottleneck, which is that the entire site seems to be served from a single 486.
How about that maximum thing? (Score:3, Funny)
You do need a bit of speed for sniping on ebay auctions.
But how about that maximum thing when buying pills to "extend your tool?"
Re:need more speed! (Score:0, Funny)
Abandon the Candlejack dialup service already, it's doing you no g
Re:0_0 (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, lag injection doesn't sound that far-fetched given the quality of most ISPs.
It also doesn't sound far-fetched that Microsoft heats their campus by burning the bodies of orphans. Doesn't mean it's happening.