[ale] A bit of a bandwidth/services/price rant..

[Jim Moore]

Mike Harrison wrote:

>>three years til they finally put FAST(?) access DSL in.  The $60 a month 
>>for Direcway is steep and they limit bandwidth in any one 24 hour 
>>period.  Direcway's download speeds weren't heartwarming either.  Seems 
>>like someone would deliver what they advertise.
>>My rant for the morning. 
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>Jim, I had to chime in and share my perspective. 
>Once upon a time (1994) a couple of visionary geeks and I started 
>in ISP in Chattanooga TN.. and bought a 128k fractional T1 line
>from Sprint. For just under $3k per month. When I sold my shares of the 
>ISP in 2003, we were buying near Tier 1, DS3's (45mbps) on fiber for about 
>$6k/month. 
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>I'm sitting at home, and my Comcast bill is about $150/month.. 
>I like the movie, Sundance, etc.. channels.. and have been impressed
>by their bandwidth and QOS. I'm rsyncing an 80gb remote drive, while I 
>type this remotely via SSH.. Don't notice any latency. While it's not the 
>same as having multi-homed DS3's to my local network, the 80gb sync has 
>been running all night, I'm very happy for the price difference. :)
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>My point is, the people on this list are either IT professionals
>and/or their technology addiction is a major factor in their lives.
>None of us are stupid (compared to the average person), and should
>be gainfully employed or self-employed (students being, of course, an 
>exception). Most of us are saving lots of cash using FOSS software and 
>OS's.. 
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>   So why are we so cheap when it comes to internet services?
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