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Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @01:13PM from the wireless-handouts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be giving away 10,000 Wireless-N routers as part of their program to perform a number of broadband tests, for the benefit of a better connection in the future. They are striving to work on improving a number of issues including latency, packet loss, connection speeds and much more."

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First post! (Score:4, Funny)

by GameboyRMH ( 1153867 ) writes: <gameboyrmh&gmail,com> on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @01:15PM (#35668342) Journal

Do I win a free router?

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$50 for your privacy (Score:5, Funny)

by jimbolauski ( 882977 ) writes: on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @01:19PM (#35668374) Journal

My privacy is worth much more then a crappy router that will accidentally send all my browsing information.

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Re:First post! (Score:5, Funny)

by GameboyRMH ( 1153867 ) writes: <gameboyrmh&gmail,com> on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @01:42PM (#35668634) Journal

Well if the news is only reaching us now, that should tell them that the latency is pretty bad...

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