When I read words like yours, Neal, then I realize how spotty the
coverage on the whole is. And here I am waiting for the Wi-Fi
covering the total sky around the earth.
Marta
On Aug 30, 2009, at 15:50 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
I wish the AT&T guy would tell me it is available in rural Shellby
County.
Maybe I better sell the farm and move into town. My only choice
under sixty-plus bucks per mo. is my old, slow dial up, and would
you believe that on a good day I might download at 3kb. Last week
even my AT&T phone quit, so I called service, and the AT&T service
man showed up Monday Morning, and told me I had a family of mice
living in the junction box down on the road, and they had eaten all
the insulation off the wires. I ask him if he had it fixed, and he
told me that the AT&T cat was working on the problem.
Neal Hammon
Fox Run Road
Shelby County
On Aug 430, 1120092007, at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Ed Wiser <ewi...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
AT&T U-verse Arrives in Louisville
Finally Insight has competition.
Some AT&T guys were canvassing my neighborhood a few weeks ago,
and I told them that I wouldn't even talk to them until they had
something to beat the TWENTY-SIX Megabit service that I get from
Insight. One of the guys said that they would be having UVerse in
a few weeks and then I could have 12 megabit downloads AND the
same back up! (Insight has only 1.5 up.) Most people typically
just download so that's the only number they care about, but I do
a lot of things (remote access to my home network being the main
thing, but uploading big files to my website, also) that could
benefit from better upload speeds I can get so I was very
interested in that 12 Mbit up.
I told them to come back when it was a reality, we shook hands and
they went on their way.
So, it was with great interest that I read the article in the C-J
this morning. Nothing mentioned about the upload speeds, though. I
suspect that it will be the same old asymmetrical service that we
have put up with since we were amazed at this newfangled
conglomeration of competing technologies called "broadband."
We'll see. Otherwise they are going to have to get a lot cheaper
to drag me away from Insight.
BTW, the other day I clocked my connection at 29.5 Mbit download.
The service they guarantee with my contract is "up to" 20 megabit.
Upload speeds are claimed to be "up to" 1.5 mbs, but I've almost
never seen it reach even that.
[TWENTY-NINE megabits per second is almost half again as fast as
they promise. It is three times that of 10baseT ethernet. It is
almost a third of 100BaseT. Oh, and it is more than FIVE HUNDRED
TIMES as fast as that horrible little beast my mom uses to dial up
her spam-and-urban-myth-laden email.]
Yes, I am greedy, and this is definitely a first-world problem,
but at times like this I am reminded of the words of one of the
richest men who ever lived, John D. Rockefeller, who was once was
asked, "How much is enough bandwidth?" His answer: "Just a little
bit more." (Okay, the question was paraphrased a bit, but the
answer is an exact quote!)
Bottom line: maybe I won't get access to super-fast uploads, but
perhaps my monthly Insight bill will go down.
Funny, I got a notice from Insight the other day saying that they
were going to increase my rates less than they could now that my
year of promotional pricing had ended. I thought, "Great!
Annnnnd...you want me to thank you!?"
After reading the article this morning, now I know why. Perhaps
UVerse is already having an affect on local pricing!
j.
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