- Jul 11, 2001
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I called my ISP a few days ago about a technical problem I was having but before they'd connect me I had to listen to a woman offering me a boggling array of incentives to "upgrade." $50 back, $20 back, get long distance (I'm paying ~$1.30/mo. right now even if I don't use my long distance connection, which I signed up for just for the occasional fax out of my local zone, doing my long distance on my cell instead), and double my DSL speed for $5 extra/month. I said I'm unemployed right now and can't justify paying more money. But when I open Firefox I have a lot of windows/tabs to load and am wondering if that $5/month upgrade (I think I'm at ~2.6 mhz now) would be worth it. In practical terms, would my pages load significantly faster? Or is the bottleneck likely on the server side of things? If the answer is that I will notice a big improvement I'll call them back and ask if I can sign onto that deal.