Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| Makes sense
I know a lot of people who moved to broadband not only because of the speed, but to get rid of the extra phone line. It is simple math.
Basic phone line = $20-$30 per month depending on location and services.
ISP = $10-$20 a month depending on who you go with.
DSL providers Verizon and SBC charge $30 a month now. Comcast charges $45. Just ditch the line and the ISP and go broadband. It comes out to the same but you get the always on fast connection.
I have never been turned on by video on the web. The small viewer box just doesn't cut it for me for starters. Then you get the packet loss on their end or mine that causes the video to lose packets. Since most people moving to broadband really don't care about services like that, I have another option. I want all ISPs to STOP offering video and audio content. Lower broadband prices instead. Bringing cable internet down to under $40 a month might just bring in more business. Just my .02 cents.
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bmn
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| said by Nightfall  :
Since most people moving to broadband really don't care about services like that, I have another option. I want all ISPs to STOP offering video and audio content.
Just because it hasn't caught on and provider networks aren't designed for bandwidth intensive content (*cough* Cox *cough*), doesn't mean it won't catch on in the future. If the lame-brain idiots that run major ISPs and backbones started pricing bandwidth reasonably (justify $400/Mbps), we'd have the networks and bandwidth to handle it.
There have been two companies, WideOpenWest (I think) and another (Winfirst ?!) that have shown Video Over IP can work... Of course they are using 100Mbps fibre, not slow poke coax or four pair copper.
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lazarus_
join:2002-08-31
Resolute, NU
| reply to Nightfall
The article is flawed.. If they did it just to free up the phone they could easily buy a new dialup modem that supports the new standard.. Either way dialup is still cheaper than broadband if you only have the one phone line that can still accept calls.. |
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Smokey
I killed the Wabbit
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join:2003-05-20
Va Beach
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this may be a dumb question, but you dont like cox do you?? |
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bmn
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join:2001-03-15
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| said by Smokey :
this may be a dumb question, but you dont like cox do you??
Let's just say I've had my fair share of problem with them and those problems had never been this numerous with my old provider before they tanked.
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Smokey
I killed the Wabbit
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join:2003-05-20
Va Beach
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MrMaster
What If
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join:2000-12-16
Austin, TX
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| reply to Nightfall
Simple math doesn't work with most people. Yes, for an extra $10 bucks a month many people could get cable instead of their stupid dialup.
Yet, they don't comprehend it cause they are STUPID!!!!!
One friend has a cable modem on one side of the wall. On the very opposite side of the wall his roommate is paying full price for AOL dialup. How stupid is that!
There should be taxes on people with dialup...when you have other options. $70 satellite internet access is overpriced so my family and extended family is exempt from this tax.
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TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
| reply to Nightfall
said by Nightfall :
I know a lot of people who moved to broadband not only because of the speed, but to get rid of the extra phone line. It is simple math.
Basic phone line = $20-$30 per month depending on location and services.
ISP = $10-$20 a month depending on who you go with.
That is what eventually got me to switch: Realizing that I was paying about as much for my slow, unstable dialup account and second phone line as I would be for fast, reliable cable. Now that I've seen these speeds, I could never go back to dialup.
It's getting to the point where you almost need a broadband connection. Even game demos and program patches are starting to get huge. Windows update on my machine took only a couple minutes. On my friend's machine, who still has dialup, it took over an hour. |
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