On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jeff Largent wrote:
> Matti Aarnio wrote:
...
> > If I were at cable-data industry, I would not allow running
> > own servers either - however I would (very likely) have
> > a web-hotel available for those pages for some moderate
> > fee (or included in the service base price).
...
>
> If I can't run services why would I want to sign up. DSL is available
> in most areas where cable modems are, they offer dedicated line that
> is just as fast and is not shared and at near the same cost. At least
> here cable- $95.00 install $45.00/mo dsl- $100.00 install $50.00/mo
> and no restrictions on what I do with my bandwidth.
When I talked with the @Home rep during a promotional "road show", he said
they may extend services for SOHO users who need to run servers.
Additional cost, of course. They already provide business oriented
services (hosting, dedicated lines, etc) through @Work
(http://work.home.net/). Their argument was reasonable to me.
There were several stories about this a few months back. One is at URL
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-344209.html?tag=st.ne.1004-200-344629.
Even with DSL competition, the cable service here is cheaper than DSL for
1 Mbps+ bandwidth. DSL is also asymmetric, with uplink rate lower than
downlink, and is limited to wire runs (not straight line distance) no more
than 3 miles from the telco.
Geof Goodrum
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