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

[Allen Brown]

> I throw Comcast my nearly $60 a month for what is a considerably
> better deal than what Qwest can do for me.

That's about what I'm paying Qworst.  Bombast won't offer
a fixed IP address for a reasonable surcharge, so they are out.

> Until we have a more
> open free market or government backed broadband then I'll settle
> on that cost. What I will not do is pay for the bandwidth I use
> as those costs would be ridiculous.

Are you saying that you should get bandwidth for free?

> Clearwire cannot compete with a landline and will not likely
> ever see my money. And until Qwest drops the hefty surcharge
> because I don't use any other services then they won't see my
> money either. It's not likely Verizon would be poking any of
> their fiber down here before DOCSIS 3 either.

Not sure what you mean.  What Qworst services?

> So, unless you think you can do better than Comcast for less
> money as far as raw download speeds are concerned then keep the
> trash talk to a minimum.

I'm as interested in upload as download.  I think this "trash
talk" is highly relevant.

> Throttled or not, the content I'm
> legally acquiring has never seemed to suffer. Yes, out of
> network torrents get hit and reset but that's also on the head
> end where packet sniffers by your friends at RIAA & MPAA are
> watching what you're doing. The ISP can't be at fault for what
> our government allows corporate America to get away with.
>
> That be all,
> Mr O.

Say, what?  You are saying that anything the gov doesn't prosecute
is OK to be done to you?  I don't *think* so.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
  Two plus two does not equal five, even for very large values of two.


> --- dooger watts <mikemcoo at efn.org> wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
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