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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
A slow network in Knoxville? A technology hub. Home of the University of Tennessee, which has a reputation for technology and engineering (my uncle, from near Oak Ridge, got his Bachelor's in Engineering at Purdue (big engineering school--the "Boilermakers") and then chose to get his Master's at U.T. This, of course, was a long time ago, too), home of the World's Fair, in 198_?, which was focused on energy, with that big tower thingie as the focal point. That Knoxville?
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Yep, the very one. Where even in the county you can get slow internet (anyone want some 1Mb/s DSL? That's what you get in TDS land, if you aren't close enough to one of their Fiber points. I had that for years before upgrading to a fast line, but have been operating out of an office with slow (highly shared) wifi for a few days. No doubt that big tower "thingie" (the giant yellow golf ball/basketball/take your choice) interferes with the high-speed internet waves we all need...
You'll get better wifi down in Chattanooga, where the city provides it as a utility (and the cable company lobbyists got a law passed to try to stop that anywhere else in the state - let's all here it for monopolies!).