[lug] Comcast internet installer

[The Matt]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 08:59, Richard Hollos wrote:
> Thought you might find this entertaining.
> 
> Last week a Comcast installer came to my Dad's house to install high speed
> internet. My Dad has a Windoze and Suse dual boot machine. The installation
> (with Windoze) went fine, but when the installer rebooted, she noticed the
> dual boot option at startup. When she tested the download speed it was
> slower than usual. She then concluded that the connection was slower because
> it was a dual boot system. Then she noticed that the hard drive had more
> than one partition. She then said that the partitioning is probably making
> the downloading slower. My brother informed her that this was impossible.
> She was incredulous.

Ahh...see, I have DSL.  We don't have this problem.  :P

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