On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> Okay, looks like I'll be sticking with cable internet. Thanks to Matthew and >> Cory for setting me straight. > > Good decision not to depend entirely on 4G cellular. It's not quite > ready for that amount of load and it is much more expensive. > > When we moved last Fall, we cancelled cable and land-line telephone > service entirely. ATT offers an "aDSL only" service option in this > area with a 6Mbps up/down rate, the promotional rate is $20/month for > the first year going to $43 after that. We outfit the condo with two > Skype phones and bought a monthly service package from Skype ($6) that > includes a land-line DIN number and unlimited calling to land-line > DINs in the United States. On top of that, I have Netflix for $11 per > month that gives me unlimited streaming and one DVD at a time access. > The television is connected to the internet via an AppleTV 2 (lots of > free content via Podcast and YouTube plus Netflix plus rent-on-demand > or stream from the computers and iPad). For local news, we fitted a > digital antenna. The ATT line drops into a wireless Apple Extreme base > station (802.11b/g/n) which can keep up nicely with the television > flow, three lap/desktop computers, two iPads, one iPod Touch. There > are only rarely any contention issues. > > Our monthly comm costs, outside of our personal cell phones > (no-contract, monthly pay as you go for each of us on unlocked > quad-band GSM handsets I bought for $50 apiece), went from $230 month > to about $40 with a huge improvement in service speed. We get 93-96% > of the signed for 6Mbps data rate for real use. > > It simply is a lot more effective benefit over cost than anything else > I've researched. I don't know whether an aDSL only service is > available in your area but if there is you should check into it.
Thanks for the info, Godders. Last time I checked DSL wasn't available here. I was told that I'm not close enough to a phone company facility. Comcast is reliable and fast, but I was just thinking it might be better to consolidate. Now I'm using three communication companies: DirecTV for television, comcast for internet and Verizon for cell phones. Would have liked to eliminate one. Paul > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
