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<\/p>\nAfter reconciling myself to the fact that Google Fiber isn’t \u00a0coming to Minneapolis anytime soon, I called my friendly Comcast representative to see what kind of speed improvements might be available to me. My connection is already plenty fast, but I’ve been downloading and streaming more video in recent months and a little more bandwidth couldn’t hurt. My friendly Comcast representative informed me that I could get the next speed tier for an additional $10 per month. That seemed reasonable and I told the man to take my money. Here are my new and improved speeds:<\/p>\n
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I was getting 24\/3, so it’s not a huge increase. And it’s not even a tenth as fast as what will soon be available to the good people of Kansas City. I’m certainly not complaining, though. Much of America can’t get speeds much better than 5 Mb\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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