Thanks Erika, and all...
Sorry for the late response-- after I posted my survey question I got
no mail from HOF for over a day. Then late yesterday afternoon, a
mail server somewhere belched forth TONS of mail for the HOF
lists.
That always happens on those few occasions when I really want an
answer...
Anyway, I appreciate what y'all had to say. I'm truly sorry that
those of you who live in some measure of paradise have to pay the
nominal price of mediocre Web access ;)
I live in a a suburb of LA that is on the edge of the urban mass, so,
I have both DSL & cable available. After evaluating the options, its
looking like cable will be the next best thing. They have 768kbps
down / 128k up for $40/mo. And 1.0M/256k up for $65/mo. Plus
tax (14.12%!). They also have 1.5M/384k for $104/mo.
Thanks again! I'm gonna crawl back in my hole now :)
Ron Connelly
The Internet:Works
On 3 May 2001, at 0:28, Erika L Walker wrote:
> Another lurker! Let's beat him with a stale muffin!!
>
> Hi Ron, ... I use ISDN.
>
> A little background about my abysmal internet access....
>
> The township I live in, Parsippany-Troy Hills, is a corporate mecca.
> It covers 25 square miles of land and houses a population of
> approximately 50,000 people. Among its diverse attributes is the
> extensive transportation network. The Township maintains access to
> Route I-80, I-287, I-280, US 46 and US 202 as well as State Highways
> 10 and 53. It is located merely 25 miles from Newark International
> Airport and is only 28 miles west of New York City.
>
> It can take as long as 45 minutes to get from one end of my town to
> another.
>
> Parsippany-Troy Hills is home to Pfizer; Nabisco; CIT; American Home
> Products; Lucent Technologies; Dialogic, now part of INTEL; Tivoli
> (used to be division of IBM or still is, I don't remember);
> Prudential; Cendant; ADP; NY Life; Chubb Life Insurance; Hoffman La
> Roche and State Farm is building a beautiful 400,000 sq. ft. class "A"
> office building. Not to mention numerous strip malls and other
> assorted smaller businesses.
>
> My point is, with all of the corporate businesses piling up around me,
> there should be an abundance of great, high-speed internet access
> plans. Ha! Cable?! Not available on my street. DSL? I'm about 300
> yards too far from the station. T1? Please, to have it run to my
> office would cost a bloody fortune.
>
> So what am I stuck with? ISDN. Well, at least it's not a 56k dial-up.
> And working in studio isn't too bad. But it costs me about $120 a
> month on average.
>
> So that's my internet access saga.
>
> Erika
> (with a *K*)
>
> "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never
> cease to be amused."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Connelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:27 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Internet Access?
>
>
> Howdy All,
>
> Sorry to introduce levity here, but...
>
> What are some of you US based, urban-located, home office
> developers doing for Internet access??
>
> I just discovered that my 2+ year arrangement with my DSL
> provider is about to come to an end. My provider (Zyan
> Communications) is filing for bankruptcy. I've been paying $50/mo for
> a business-level SDSL service at 384k with 32 IPs.
>
> I recognize this was a land-office deal, but I'm having a hard time
> coming to grips with $189/mo for the same thing when I "transition" my
> account to the provider who bought Zyan's access (DSL.net). That
> $189/mo seems to be close to the going rate out there...
>
> So what's everyone else doing?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Ron
> (driven out of lurk mode with a stick...)
>
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