[TriLUG] Time Warner price increase

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Carl, 

I'm curious ...what's your upstream/downstream? Are you paying whatever package is supposed to mirror tw's?

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of dsandif
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Time Warner price increase

Why can't we do what the brilliant folks in Wilson NC did and start our 
own ISP?, why do we have to put up with this crap in the first place!?





Carl Crider wrote:
>  The main reason I stayed with Earthlink when I moved in 01' was that I
> could (1) Use them as a cable internet provider without changing my
> contract, and (2) It's always been $5 a month cheaper for the same
> bandwidth.
>
> Win and win.
>
> 2009/12/3 Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
>
>   
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I use Earthlink thru TWC.
>>>       
>> +1 for making the switch to Earthlink. The retention deal TWC offered
>> didn't come close to the Earthlink 6-month introductory pricing, and
>> after the introductory period the Earthlink price is still about $5
>> lower than the same TWC tier. Icing on the cake for me: I now have 2x
>> the upstream and 4x the downstream I had directly through TWC for less
>> than I used to pay. Oh, and: no equipment change. Just reboot the
>> modem and blam!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Cristóbal M. Palmer
>> "The fun thing is to try to persuade others to share your opinions
>> about what rules and what sucks. Nothing is more fun than evangelism."
>>  --Larry Wall
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