elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | We don't have pay-tv, period. We "cut" that portion of our cable bill many years ago, when one channel was costing us $62+/month. But we're the exception - no one we know goes without.
As for Sonic, we're the steerage class. We get to pay full rack rate, but enjoy none of the benefits. While we're told Fusion is coming, it hasn't arrived yet, and when it does, we'll be part of the new child class, wherein we have no choice but to buy dialtone and pay the usurious taxes that accompany it, as well as the mandatory modem rental, and I expect performance will be, at best, around 1Mbit, while others enjoy "up to" 20mbits for the same price.
TWC can do double-play for $70/month, no problem. They won't do it forever, but they will for the 2-3 years it takes to knock the wind out of Google's sails. |
elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | Loop length is somewhere between 14K and 18K depending on who is measuring.
We're currently doing 500kbps and less, despite new copper, new inside wiring, and the industry-standard external splitter. Upgrading to ADSL2+ should show a doubling if the pair remains the same quality. Maybe we'll get lucky at hit 2Mbits - its a total crapshoot.
Sonic's CEO tells us that having the slowest connections pay the same rate as the fastest, forcing us to pay for dialtone we don't want, and forcing us to rent a modem is all good, because big companies do it. |
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