On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 19:31 -0400, Chad Bailey wrote: > Comcast's services are quite expensive even when > considering the promotional plans.
They have lower plans that are more inline with DSL prices, and closer to DSL speeds. > I also recently found out they no > longer offer a self install option for new service which I find > retarded. Unfortunately, I do not own a cable modem, so there would be > a minimum of $100+whatever I could find a cable modem for just to get > started. Motorola SB6120 ~$100, but less at times, or pay $7 a month without TV service to rent one, $3 with TV. Also they charge a bit more for Internet only service. Which is unlike At&t. > For those wondering, if you break the usage cap of 250gb/month on > Comcast, you will get an angry letter. I can't imagine what it takes to trigger that. I do a fair amount of downloading and such and could be more. But haven't ever gotten near that to my knowledge. I did have a buddy out in California that got the letter long ago. But they were being stupid with their activities. Needless torrents and downloads of stuff, they had no use for. Likely what brought about such policies. Then again its also a result of overselling capacity. > Do it again, and Comcast will > make a "business decision" regarding keeping you as a customer (this > is as described by a tech support rep roughly 1 year ago, things may > have changed since then). With DSL if you break the cap of > 150GB/month, you will get 3 warnings, then be charged $10 per 50gb you > go over in a month if you do go over. I think this is a very fair way > to do it, though I'm not crazy about the idea of any sort of cap on my > internet service. Tiered plans make more sense to me. Just like cell > phones, some people use lots of minutes, some people use few minutes. > The saddest part of it all is bandwidth fees are some of the most > insignificant fees to a company when compared to network maintenance, > technical support/customer service, and technician dispatches. Also, I > never hear ANY isp making mention of the 90 year old ladies using > their service who pay a premium to just check their email, generating > probably less than a gig each month on their service. Ethically, I > feel they should offer cheaper rates for those customers who do not > use much of their service if they are going to charge more for those > who use it more. I very much agree, there are two costs. The cost of the line, and the cost of usage, and data exchange with other carriers. The cost for the line is the same for all, but the usage is surely not. However most all cellular carriers are moving away from per minute plans to unlimited plans. Which of course unlimited is not unlimited, at least not with regard to data. They don't have a cap at this time to my knowledge. But will throttle you back to slower speeds once you use so much. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
