CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL | Needs
I guess it depends on your needs. |
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Califax
join:2005-01-27
3004 | My grandparents live there.... hrmmm! |
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robertg1234
join:2004-04-19
Palo Alto, CA | reply to CPM
I Feel The Need,
The Need For -- STREAMING HD VIDEO!
»ranma.com/hk/HK-Food-1440.wmv |
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desreversti
join:2002-09-03
San Antonio, TX | reply to Califax
Hmmm, one of my grandmothers lives there as well as some
other relatives... Go sacramento I suppose. |
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jarablue
Always be true to yourself
join:2001-06-11
Worcester, MA | Symmetrical
Does that mean 20meg up as well? Wow. |
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joshj
join:2001-10-30
Antelope, CA
| There are two Surewests
There are two kinds of Surewest: Good Surewest and Old Surewest.
Good Surewest is the areas of Sacramento and Elk Grove that have this fiber system. Insanely fast Internet and pretty good cable TV also.
Old Surewest is the parts of Roseville, Citrus Heights, etc. that have had Surewest/Roseville Telephone as their phone company for decades. We don't get any of that stuff. What we get is overpriced telephone service and expensive DSL service. We'll never get any of the Good Surewest stuff because, after all, why would they? We're already a captive customer base for them. Not too much competition.
Now, I do have to give Old Surewest some credit for recently upgrading their DSL speeds from 1000/128 to 3000/768 for the same price. It finally makes their DSL service a "decent" value, but when they're charging $49.95 a month for DSL and neighboring SBC (which we can't get) is charging only $14.95, it's more than a little irritating.
Oh well... |
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·BroadVoice
| reply to CPM
Re: Needs
I would pay that in a minute. Right now my bill from Time Warner is $130 per month, and that only includes basic cable plus HBO and my 4m/384k internet connection. If I could switch to Optimum Online I would simply because they are much cheaper than TWC.
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Now THATS superfluous!! |
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xyrx
join:2001-08-07
Sacramento, CA
1 edit | reply to joshj
Re: There are two Surewests
The "Good" surewest you speak of is actually WinFirst, which SureWest bought out a few years back. The "Old" SureWest is probably the same SureWest just prior to the Winfirst buyout, which means no fiber, plain DSL and phone services, etc etc blah blah blah. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to joshj
A better way of looking at it is..
Roseville Telephone / WinFirst.
Surewest, a.k.a. Roseville Telco simply bought bankrupt WinFirst and took over the build.
But people, before you all get happy about the 20/20, one thing the paragraph above forgot the mention was, oh my, those damn CAPS! SOLID AND SET CAPS! Andy why caps? Because Fiber deployment compares with cable in the sense that it's share bandwidth. Granted, much faster.
I rbing this up as a good point because people bash cable tv on the fact that it's a shared environment.. also I have heard over and over the arguments about when Comcast and others speed up it means just getting to the caps faster... well? Here you go! |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
Premium
join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
| reply to jarablue
Re: Symmetrical
said by jarablue  :Does that mean 20meg up as well? Wow. Yes.
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Thank God i am not getting married, having kids, going on a date, etc! Oh Thank God! |
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AlphaOne
I see
Premium
join:2004-02-21
| Awesome .. if it's available
We can't get it though. Our neighborhood is fairly new, about 6 years but can't get it as Surewest is not available.
Unfortunately, only the new developments are lucky enough to have fiber installed.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan |
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the niTz
Premium
join:2004-07-05
Sahuarita, AZ | mmmmm
i just got a upgrade from cox but i want that  |
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jstack
join:2001-12-09
South San Francisco, CA | reply to imtim83
Re: Symmetrical
My uncle has the 10mbit tier. What they don't tell you is that there is a 30gb cap. |
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TheSaint
join:2002-01-25
Hanover Park, IL
clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
·Comcast
| Caps?
30gb cap isn't that much for someone who does a lot web browsing, gaming and some downloading/voip. The price is very good considering the speeds, but the caps would be enough to drive a lot of power users away. 
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --- Edmund Burke
Kill your TV, then Internet Explorer: »www.mozilla.org |
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Newegg
Supreme Ideology
join:2004-11-14
Atlanta, GA
2 edits | They do have caps. I know for the 10Mbps tier it's less than 100GB and that's bullshit.
»testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=4949.0 |
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Anti_Cyrix
Premium
join:2003-03-06
Sacramento, CA
| reply to jstack
Re: Symmetrical
said by jstack :My uncle has the 10mbit tier. What they don't tell you is that there is a 30gb cap. I currently have their 10 mbit tier. The cap is 40 gigs, and if they didn't up the cap (or remove it) there is no point in upgrading to 20 mbit.
Does anyone know anything about current caps? Or do I have to call them? |
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NXds
@rr.com | LoL
Caps are gay. I want my fios please finish up Huntington Beach up a bit faster Verizon. |
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Anti_Cyrix
Premium
join:2003-03-06
Sacramento, CA
| reply to Anti_Cyrix
Re: Symmetrical
Ok, I just called tech support.
The 20mbit tier has a 40 gig cap also. The cap is unidirectional, calculated by upload OR download, not both. "Power users" have a 75 gig cap. As I understood, power user 20mbit tier is $100 a month.
Also for regular users, if you go over the 40 gigs the first time, you get a warning. Second time you are charged $2 for every gig after the 40Gig mark. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | it can be done...
...the big boys just don't want to do it.
10M/10M for $50/mo is almost enough to make me move out there. |
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TheSaint
join:2002-01-25
Hanover Park, IL
clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
·Comcast
| reply to TheSaint
Re: Caps?
So you can have a sports car that can drive 200mph, but can only be used for short trips to the store? (Whoops, we're out of fuel on our network, please wait until next month for your ration).
Crazy.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --- Edmund Burke
Kill your TV, then Internet Explorer: »www.mozilla.org |
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