> I throw Comcast my nearly $60 a month for what is a considerably > better deal than what Qwest can do for me.
That's about what I'm paying Qworst. Bombast won't offer a fixed IP address for a reasonable surcharge, so they are out. > Until we have a more > open free market or government backed broadband then I'll settle > on that cost. What I will not do is pay for the bandwidth I use > as those costs would be ridiculous. Are you saying that you should get bandwidth for free? > Clearwire cannot compete with a landline and will not likely > ever see my money. And until Qwest drops the hefty surcharge > because I don't use any other services then they won't see my > money either. It's not likely Verizon would be poking any of > their fiber down here before DOCSIS 3 either. Not sure what you mean. What Qworst services? > So, unless you think you can do better than Comcast for less > money as far as raw download speeds are concerned then keep the > trash talk to a minimum. I'm as interested in upload as download. I think this "trash talk" is highly relevant. > Throttled or not, the content I'm > legally acquiring has never seemed to suffer. Yes, out of > network torrents get hit and reset but that's also on the head > end where packet sniffers by your friends at RIAA & MPAA are > watching what you're doing. The ISP can't be at fault for what > our government allows corporate America to get away with. > > That be all, > Mr O. Say, what? You are saying that anything the gov doesn't prosecute is OK to be done to you? I don't *think* so. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Two plus two does not equal five, even for very large values of two. > --- dooger watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The astounding thing to me is how many of my friends willingly >> throw >> bomcast over a hundred bux a month and still put up with >> throttled >> service. >> >> A public so willing to be ripped off this way is worse than >> lambs to the >> slaughter. >> > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
