# cheap internet / cable

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**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cheap-internet-cable/192686 "2007-09-27T12:48:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![xlogic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/59ef9b/32.png) [@xlogic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xlogic)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cheap-internet-cable/192686/31 "2007-10-11T10:32:32Z")

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> [@Who wants to race the R1?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-to-race-the-r1/32719/57):
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> I can’t even max out a cable connection at 8mb, what is the extra 22mb going to do?

there is always going to be a bottleneck somewhere, unless you live in korea…  
but it’s marketing, just them saying “i’m faster than the next guy” FIOS will be really great all around as soon as the voice and television services hit with it, if i remember the specs correctly it was  
32 television customers  
32 internet customers  
128 voice customers  
per fiber optic strand

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