Omega_WA
join:2000-09-02
Norfolk, VA
|  reply to MiamiDSL
Re: Now, on a positive note
I agree. I live in a rural part of Washington State and have had excellent results with my GTE (Verizon) DSL. AT&T has been promising for the last 6 months that they would be here but they keep putting it off. Even if they were here today, I would never give up my DSL. |
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
clubs:
| I just had a fellow IRCer lose their Cox cable account because they upload more than their 500MB/24hour period.
What type of crap is that? What is the point of going broadband if companies are going to terminate your because you are a power user and dl/ul too much? |
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI
| A similar thing happened to me. I went from the big brother (scanning all my ports for open servers and the like  ) cable company to the freedom of DSL. The best thing the cable company ever did for me was to dump me.
On a side note I wonder how long the cable companies memories are on dumping users. After say 30 year will they remember? After acquisitions will they remember? Lets say you move to another cable company and there is a merger will they compare records and start dumping users? Until cable systems become more open, they can treat you any way they want to. Where as I have at least 10 options(for abuse )with dsl. |
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AHBAC
join:2000-06-12
USA
| reply to MexiCubAZ
said by NJRammy:
I just had a fellow IRCer lose their Cox cable account because they upload more than their 500MB/24hour period.
Never have to worry about doing that with DSL, odds are you'll never stay up long enough to complete a large upload at those blazing speeds! LOL
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wheelert$93
T L C
ExMod 2002
join:2000-06-01
Lynden, ON
| reply to Freezone
I can't see where one can complain if they break the ToS and get dumped for it. However, if it wasn't in the ToS, I don't think my account would have been disconnected for very long.
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"Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings. They did it by killing all those who opposed them." |
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
clubs:
| Wheelert: problem is that in the original TOS it never mentions a daily upload limit. Companies should inform you of changes to the TOS to let users know what is going on.
This reminds me of PhoenixDSL killing usenet without letting users know about it. I am still waiting to see official word as to the situation with usenet. |
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
clubs:
| reply to Freezone
What gets me is that in the TOS it does not say anything about a 500MB upload limit per day!
http://www.cox.com/coxathome/agreement.asp
Look for yourselves. The url above was sent to them. |
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