[TriLUG] TimeWarner tinkering around with time travel?

[James Tuttle]

Maybe it's just me, but these prices are ridiculous.  I occasionally 
work from home, but most of my work is over SSH and pretty low 
bandwidth.  When I work with large files, eg GIS, I almost always have 
enough forethought to rsync my laptop, take it home to work on, take it 
back to work, and resync it.  I can't imagine paying these prices.  I 
think we pay $30 for RR Lite where I get about 5 Mbps down and 366 Kbps 
up. If I came home and told my wife I was thinking of paying 100+ for 
internet she'd flip out.

What a crappy bunch of options...

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Hmm. I went to AT&T's site to look up business class DSL @ home, and
> here's what I got back...: 
>                 UP / DOWN
> Single-IP IDSL 144-144Kbps - ($99.95)
> Multi-IP IDSL  144-144Kbps - ($142.45)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott G. Hall
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TimeWarner tinkering around with time travel?
> 
> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>> MG wrote:
>>> YMMV, of course, but I'd take dialup before TWC.
>> Just goes to show how different user experiences can be.  I've had
>> TWC since they announced the beta RR service back in...hmmm...99?
>> My service has always been fantastic.  The few problems that I've
>> had with the service (usually related to the rather long and ancient
>> cable coming into my house) have been remedied promptly. I would
>> NEVER go back to dial-up.
>>
> 
> Again shows the difference in experience: in my neighborhood everyone
> complained about outages and and slowdowns before we signed up for
> anything.  Our experience with their cable service at our apartment
> was abysmal (and continually jacked-up rates didn't help).
> 
> So first thing I did when we moved in is go DSL (~2001 timeframe),
> and have been extremely happy since.  For the last couple of years
> I have been on business class DSL, and I get faster throughput than
> any of my neighbors on TWC/RR.  And I don't experience near the
> dropouts that they do.  Sure, I had to upgrade my modem a couple of
> times over the years (one went bad, other for faster b-class service
> and wireless capability).  Plus my rate is still cheaper than my
> neighbor's residential class.  Hummmm, faster and more reliable
> service at a cheaper rate - go figure.
> 


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