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by cm2187 1481 days ago
In fact my home was one of the first home in France to get a DSL connection. The modem could do 8mbit, but the phone company capped it at 500kbit. The problem is that though the connection from the exchange to the home was DSL, the infrastructure behind was the same infrastructure they used for 56k connections. So you ended up with a DSL connection that was about the same speed than a 56k modem...

And now I am complaining about having only 100mbit upload.