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  • #16
    That's a good deal.

    I think competition will start making a difference in the US. Or it might settle into a duopoly. The telephone companies probably are going to be battling with the cable companies. Might be a battle royale, with others picking up some pieces of business too.

    I have 3 possible broadband providers: the telephone company (Verizon DSL); the cable company (Comcast); and the cable company (RCN). I buy from RCN.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #17
      Originally posted by DanS
      I have 10 Mbps through cable modem. Or at least, I assume so. I haven't topped out my download bandwidth lately. Upload is 2 Mbps. $40/month.

      That seems on the fast side for anywhere except maybe Japan and Korea.


      You are doing just what that OT claims - saying that your single high speed connection is representative and thereby pwns all other
      With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

      Steven Weinberg

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      • #18
        I have 1Mbps...I expect the UK is probably lousy in this chart as per usual...
        Speaking of Erith:

        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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        • #19
          I have a gigabit synchronous both ways for $0.1 a month. I am the biggest server houser in the world. I have about 100 akamai servers under my hood and they pay me trillions every day. MS is calling at 8 o'clock every morning to see if I got up well and if I am still okay and if anything is missing... usually I request a heli transport to the shopping center or as of lately let them bring all the stuff home, but you can't control the quality when you're not behind it.. so...

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          • #20
            ObAnecdote: Shortly after my brother moved this summer, they announced they'll draw 100/100 connections to his old area.

            The funny thing it's a somewhat unfashionable area, chiefly populated by immigrants, students, and other misfits. Hardly the easiest place to find people willing to pay for high-end connections.
            Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

            It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
            The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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            • #21
              PH, Only because BT have been dragging their feet on the broadband issue and stymied attempts to allow others to use their networks.
              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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              • #22
                Still, their greed drags us all backwards...some of our businesses pull so much crap...
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • #23
                  Buy shares in them, that's what I do.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #24
                    I've had a better offer
                    Speaking of Erith:

                    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                    • #25
                      Never forget!

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                      • #26
                        Jon Miller?
                        Speaking of Erith:

                        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by VetLegion
                          Never forget!

                          I didn't know that the american problem with boobs went that far back. No wonder they panicked seeing (can't remember her first name) Jacksons breast for a few seconds.
                          With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                          Steven Weinberg

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                          • #28
                            Just looking at other broadband packages - one was 2Mbps with a 3GB/month limit? I mean, why f**king bother having broadband with a download limit like that?
                            Speaking of Erith:

                            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                            • #29
                              I was thinking about posting this.
                              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by BlackCat



                                You are doing just what that OT claims - saying that your single high speed connection is representative and thereby pwns all other
                                I don't think it's representative of anything in the US. Where did I say that? Rather, the point is that some places in the US do have broadband for a reasonable price and that this is probably due to both competition and population/business density.
                                Last edited by DanS; October 19, 2005, 18:30.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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