We have broad-band typical for american-style ADSL up to 1100 up and 14000 (advertised as 16000) down.

Telling Rick to STFU because jake don’t have access to what Rick has, sounds like an energy better spent on getting what Rick has or moving somewhere civilized where Rick’s style Internet connection, and many other basic rights of humans, are honored.

Only, because (I’m guessing here) jake lives in a populist pre-authoritatian state, doesn’t mean Rick has to STFU for a reminder of the hazards for working folks, such as the connection, equal now to dial-up. jake seems to think it gives him license to tell Rick off: in a so-called free speech zone. Free for what?

Use your bitterness to change your situation, not by cussing out a Swede.

You know, Rick, us ‘Americans’ (meaning USA, I’m guessing) really need to put down our 44oz sodas, stop our bickering over internal issues, and see the big picture:

A general strike until we get what we want: including a publicly-owned high-speed infrastructure, no private bank controlling assets and no more monopolies in the so-called ‘market’, and many many other things OT. Unless it happens in, say, 1 year (these things don’t take long), more general strikes. It won’t paralyze the economy, as it’s already 80% dead.

Btw after the ;last updates in Azureus and Bitcomet the above tips dont work. One good tip is to access ur rooter and give him the exact ports that ur client uses,
if anyone is interresting how to have stable speed in torrents just use the following query in google:
port mantake& or +”routermodelname” bittorent.

dont use the ” or both & and + signs.
example
port mantake+cisco980ft bitorrent.

u will get the walkthroughts for ur router. or if you are really bored to search and go edit ur router’s options just download connection optimizer,.(from version 2.34 I think i was out on September 2k7) it has a button for optimizing ur bittorrent client. It supports the most known and i can tell u that it works for bitcomet after version 0.91 and azureus vuze..3.0.4.2

other clients like μtorrent… never tested so play with it.