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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:23, Joseph Heaton <jhea...@dfg.ca.gov> wrote:
> I agree John.  My big activities at home are playing MMOs, for the most part. 
>  My Comcast connection at 6-12 Mb is just fine for that.  I'm not running a 
> business out of my home or anything.
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> What are people doing at home, for "personal" reasons, that would need 50 - 
> 100 Mbps down, and 50ish Mbps up?
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>>>> John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> 3/17/2010 11:08 AM >>>
> I feel like such a neoluddite... I get 10-15Mbps at home via cable modem, and 
> honestly that's plenty fast for 99% of what I do.
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> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
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> From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: National broadband
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> From what I gathered from this site, they just want to release the capping 
> the ISP's do on the available bandwidth for the customers, not necessarily 
> allow Internet for all citizens.  ISP's truly have a large amount of 
> bandwidth available to consumers, yet to control pricing and overhead they 
> cap speeds and gradually release them on an accounting-time-period-basis.
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> I have AT&T at my home, and the highest Mbps down available is 24Mbps, but 
> compared to a year ago, its twice as fast.  So it just happened to be 
> available now instead of last year?
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> If I were to pay $65/month for 100Mbps/50Mbps, I would gladly do it.  So long 
> as it's available.  Knowing it's available yet being restricted is what is 
> irritating.
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> Jay Dale
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> From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:40 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: National broadband
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> I could run a cable up to you from our OC3... ;-)
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> From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:51 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: National broadband
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> Though I would love to see the US and all broadband providers give us better 
> services, my concern is at what cost?
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> If I look at my home service, 24 Mbps down and 1.5 up, is running $65.  That 
> is pretty cheap, but still a LONG way from 100/50 Mbps.  I am really curious 
> what the government feels is "affordable access"?  It would seem that only 
> businesses would pay more than $100/month for service, but a business would 
> require some type of SLA.  At my office, I COULD get 100 Mbps service, but 
> have no idea what the price would be.  Considering 3 Mbps service is costing 
> me $530 for a business line, I would not even want to consider the price.
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> Jeff Johnson
> Systems Administrator
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> From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:39 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: National broadband
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> Thoughts, comments?
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> http://www.broadband.gov/
> David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
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