Shack
join:2002-01-17
Bloomington, IN
| reply to frankenfeet
Re: Will Insight follows Comcast's upgrades?
BoTomaTic, if you really think it is a rip off switch to the company in your area that has a better service. Sure Comcast is going to upgrade, and likely if we look at the past Insight will follow a few months later. Frankly I am glad that we do not have the invisible caps Comcast has, so I know I can use my bandwidth the way I wan't. I really do not have a problem with caps, as long as they are up front and reasonable. Insight is a business and I htink our rates are not that bad for the money, sure I want more just like all of us do. I tend to be reasonable on the matter. |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
| Well lucky you - you must live an area where you have the choice to switch. Many of us don't. And honestly anyone who makes a comment that we are getting a good return or value for our money. Hasn't done a hard look at pricing and speeds being offered within the industry at this time. Insight once again is lagging behind in regards to speeds and pricing. This is really nothing new. And honestly they can't seem to keep things running smoothly for many customers with the current speed offerings. It would most likely only get worse with a speed upgrade.
Since SBC isn't getting fiber happy to soon - like Verizon is. You won't see Insight getting to worried about lowering prices or increasing speeds. Yes I'm aware SBC is only competition for Insight in some areas. But if you use this as an example. It shows that competition is the only way to get upgrades. Not many companies ( ok OOL / Cablevision ) will offer a highend service when their competition doesn't.
But once again OOL is a good example of what I stated above. Since they now have some heavy competition from Verizon. Do to Verizon's fiber rollout. Your now seeing that OOL is being beat at it's own game. The company is no longer the fastest consumer broadband provider. So they are having to now play catch up to stop customers from leaving their service for the Verizon offerings.
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BeesTea
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join:2003-03-08
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| said by IGGY  :Well lucky you - you must live an area where you have the choice to switch. Many of us don't. And honestly anyone who makes a comment that we are getting a good return or value for our money. Hasn't done a hard look at pricing and speeds being offered within the industry at this time. Everyone in the insight area has a choice. They can choose Insight, or Direcway at a minimum. It's very likely they can choose to get commercial service from an ISP as well. Anyone who thinks they're getting ripped off needs to compare the 4mb they get from insight to the 1.5mb they'll pay ~$250.00-$400.00 a month for from an ISP like Covad.
If you're stuck with Insight, be glad you are. If it weren't for them you'd be paying 8x the amount for 1/3 the speed.
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