[Eug-lug] 20Mbps DSL? It could come to you.

[dooger watts]

Ben Barrett wrote:
> I agree completely, and I'd love to see our uplink market get far more 
> competetive.  I'd love to be paying 1/3 of what I pay now, for 10x the 
> service (or better).  However, in our system the market dictates what is 
> "realistic". 

The astounding thing to me is how many of my friends willingly throw 
bomcast over a hundred bux a month and still put up with throttled 
service.

A public so willing to be ripped off this way is worse than lambs to the 
slaughter.

It's the essence of the expression "disposable capital"--and it's why 
bomcast must laugh all the way to the bank.

> What else can we do, to pressure the service providers?  

Where's the Cliff Cox of the 21st century?  As mentioned earlier in this 
thread, I think there's a rural (Blachly anyway) isp that's cheaper and 
faster than bomcast; some kind of NW Lane co-op.

> Whatever happened to our Eugene free-wifi mesh?  ;)

As if their monopoly tactics weren't bad enough the bomcast ceo looks 
like a shaved buffalo and routinely gives dubya 100's of thousands.