Friday, February 11

So fast it hurts

While examining some details of my broadband internet service, I opted to visit my local Time Warner Cable website, and saw this promotion for faster broadband:


Being the curious, and easily distracted sort, I clicked on the promotion to get more information. I got this page back:


It's hard to tell, but the error page did seem to load 50% faster.


(If you visit the site yourself, it alternates between showing the high speed promotion and an ad for extremely overpriced internet phone service. If you get the phone ad, reload until you get the high speed promotion.)

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