Viper007Bond
Premium
join:2002-09-26
Portland, OR
| Wow
That's pretty sweet. Not the fastest, but those new packages look good.
What's the range and upload like? Or is this basically DSL over the powerline?
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xirian
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY
| Cable speeds
quote:
At a cost of $28.95 per month for residential service and $39.95 per month for commercial service at a minimum speed of 300Kbit/sec. to and from the Internet, Manassas' BPL service compares favorably to the $42.95 that Comcast Corp. charges cable-modem customers who also subscribe to its cable television services. Cable throughput is typically 600Kbit to 800Kbit/sec. from the Internet to the subscriber and 128Kbit to 256Kbit/sec. to the Internet.
Isnt comcast much faster than 300kbit, justifying the price for most? And I didnt think there were man places where cable was under 1mbit on the download side. |
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Andrew J
Premium
join:2001-11-09
Lancaster, PA
clubs: | My dad would love 300K. Mainly he just wants an always on connection and free up his fax line.
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | reply to xirian
Kilobits of kilobytes? You would have to be in a pretty crappy situation before you'd see less than 800kbps routinely from Comcast.
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JazzJRabbit
join:2003-09-27
Wheaton, IL | reply to Viper007Bond
Re: Wow
$30 plus whatever fees for 300 kilobit per second (or less than 30 kilobyte/second) down? Uhm... No. This is way overpriced. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
1 edit | too slow?
It is slightly confusing, because the article sez bits but the comparison seems to be bytes to bytes. 600 to 800kbytes would be 4.8M to 6.4M which is roughly where comcast is at right now.
If they meant to say "bytes", that would make their service 2.4M/2.4M which would be great for $29/mo. |
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krobar
Is this thing on?
join:2002-09-15
Columbus, OH | reply to oliphant
Re: Cable speeds
I agree, I'm thinking someone's got their KB's and Kb's mixed up or something, that makes no sense at all.
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krobar
Is this thing on?
join:2002-09-15
Columbus, OH
| reply to nasadude
Re: big K, not little
that's bit's, not bytes...
At a cost of $28.95 per month for residential service and $39.95 per month for commercial service at a minimum speed of 300Kbit/sec. to and from the Internet, Manassas' BPL service compares favorably to the $42.95 that Comcast Corp. charges cable-modem customers who also subscribe to its cable television services. Cable throughput is typically 600Kbit to 800Kbit/sec. from the Internet to the subscriber and 128Kbit to 256Kbit/sec. to the Internet.
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t604
join:2004-09-05
Edmonton, AB | reply to nasadude
big or little k don't matter.. it's about the little b which is bits...
it's 300 Kilobits per second... so it's 37.5 KiloBytes per second... $30 is pretty expnsive imho... |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to nasadude
No, it's bits.
They later talk about 1.5, 4 and six megabit "upgrades". They mean 300 kilobits, not kilobytes. |
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Zein
join:2003-06-14
Painesville, OH | reply to t604
Re: big K, not little
What city's will this be done in? |
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FishNET
join:2004-07-01
Haddonfield, NJ | Horrible price
$29 for 300Kbps?!!? I pay that for 3M with Verizon. |
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234kjl32
@xx.wdc | Manassas BPL sucks
I'm from Manassas and use to have BPL (keywords "use to"). The service is rediculously slow- barely faster than dial up. Now I have DSL for just a few dollars more a month, and much, much faster. |
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ke4pym
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC | reply to JazzJRabbit
Re: Wow
No, overpriced is my parent's paying $41/mo for 256/128 cable modem service. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | reply to Zein
Re: big K, not little
said by Zein  :What city's will this be done in? Didja even read the headline or the summary? Didja?
Manassas, Virginia
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primeomega
join:2004-03-11
De Pere, WI
| Overprice??
I think you all are looking at this the wrong way. This is not for the people who can get DSL or cable. This is for the poor people who have to use dial up because there live "out of the city" My dad would pay $50 a month for this if we would get it. About what he pays now with his 2nd line and dial up, and its much faster for his e-bay'n. |
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Nighttime
join:2001-11-30
| But from the article it is IN the city. Not outside the city!
Also it makes NO sense to deploy fiber then connect it with this outmoded tech! Kind of like having a monster motor in a kiddy car!
Also is the population that low back there? |
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DaDogs
Semper Vigilantis
Premium
join:2004-02-28
Deltaville, VA
| reply to primeomega
said by primeomega : This is not for the people who can get DSL or cable. Manassas, Virginia IS a city:
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ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI
| reply to krobar
Re: big K, not little
said by krobar :that's bit's, not bytes... ... Cable throughput is typically 600Kbit to 800Kbit/sec. from the Internet to the subscriber and 128Kbit to 256Kbit/sec. to the Internet. Maybe some cable systems are slow but not Comcast.
99.999999% of the time my Comcast connection downloads at least 6000 kbits and uploads at 720 kbits (real throughput, not some flakey speed test). I've never seen downloads drop below 5900 kbits. And I'm out in rural America where DSL fears to tread!
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bptcwb
join:2005-03-14
Nederland, TX
| BPL is garbage and spectrum polluter
BPL was touted as the high speed for RURAL areas....yet I see nothing where it is being deployed in RURAL areas..WHY? Because BPL is a spectrum polluter and tears up TV from 2 -6 and radios from above AM band to just below AND maybe even the FM band...this range, 2 - 88MHz includes ShortWave, ham and CB bands...not to mention business operations in the lowband VHF 30-50 MHz range...POWER LINES were NOT designed to carry RADIO signals....wires act as antennas and radiate the DIGITAL square waves all over the place....ever hear an AM radio placed next to a PC? This is much worse...and NOT needed..especially IN TOWNs! MaxFi will be cheaper and better...
300kbs speed is it?? and tear up the radio/TV bands for everyone else?? Yeah thats technical progress (not to mention a ham or CBer could easily cause your high speed BPL connection to totally QUIT and not work by their LEGAL transmissions...good thinking huh?) |
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