Fixed price, set speed, no unreasonable bandwidth caps. I pay
for my connection, not what I use. Satellite is a good example
there. Daily limits before getting throttled back.
Qwest requires at the very least basic home phone service to
qualify for *any* price reduction on their services.
I can maintain a full 8Mbps or better download speeds at times.
My connection is typically only limited by the other end. Yes,
uploads typically only average 45k.
Sorry, I don't live in a utopian society where everything is
free and I can run around naked and not pay taxes. We as
Americans have a greater amount of "freedom" than many other
countries. I could care less if they're sniffing my packets for
LOLbombs. Should I ever hop on a plane again in my life I'll
just wear a trench coat and boxers. I have nothing to hide!
Well, maybe from the IRS. That $20 'gift' was used for lunch.
--- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
> --
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
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
