 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | It needs to be cheaper. but this would be great for someone who does E-mail, and little else.
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 PhoenixDown-- Wants FIOSPremium
join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
kudos:1 | Not bad at all really. Who really get a full 56k on dial up anyway?
I would get something likee this if I was looking to cut costs and didnt use the net as much as I do now or if I was looking to get basic net access at another place I frequent, like a summer home or a family members house.
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said by Transmaster:
but this would be great for someone who does E-mail, and little else.
so is 56k...
if you can afford the $20 for "broadband", you might as well spend another $10 and get real 768/128 dsl
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join:2003-01-26
Canada | 20 dollars canadian!
Here Dial-up (local numbers) is 24.95. Plus you need the phone line, dial up here is only 28.8K anyways, you need to tie up an existing phonel line and then the busy signals. Lol, this is a great way to get dial up users.
I have the normal high speed now, as soon as I feel like I need the extra speed I will pay 100 bucks for the modem.
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| Bellsouth has something just like this, slightly faster at 256 down. Except their DSL Lite costs FORTY DOLLARS for most people. For $10 more you can and might as well get a more useful DSL line. Seriously, who the hell has Bellsouth the Unlimited plan? And who wants to sign a one year contract? Charter has 3mbps for the same price here. I hate both companies, so I went with the lesser of two evils. 
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Imo $20 is an excellent pricing point for peon-level broadband to get people off the phone line. 128k is fine if you're just looking at web sites, although 256k would be ideal even if it were $5 more. |
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 Pz_
join:2001-03-31
Brownsburg, IN | reply to rtcpenguin
Yeah, I'm missing the whole idea behind it too. There might be lots of people who hang on to dial up so when they travel (UUnet) they can still log on no matter where they go. This would actually make people lose a benefit. |
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said by MechaStyle:
Bellsouth has something just like this, slightly faster at 256 down. Except their DSL Lite costs FORTY DOLLARS for most people.
I was at a friend's apartment earlier this week and turned on my laptop to do some gaming. Windows saw a "NETGEAR" access point and started getting me connected (no WEP -- no changes to default settings). It appears to be my friend's nearby neighbor. The signal strength was "excellent" to "very good."
We decided to see what kind of connection this guy had, since the browsing seemed a little slow. He was on a BellSouth DSL setup, and after a BBR speed test or two, we determined that he had to be on the DSL Lite product.
I'll tell you this -- browsing and lite e-mail attachments would be marginally OK on this setup. Anything with video, audio, or streaming content -- not worth it. And you can forget downloading files -- the measured speed of 206kbps was horrible for downloading after overhead. Not sure how much my 802.11b connection would factor into that overhead.
I have no clue why anyone would want DSL Lite from BellSouth (if this was in fact a DSL Lite line) if all you can do is browse and do e-mail (sans attachments). Sort of defeats the idea of getting newbs and old folks to sign up for the service, particularly if it's advertised for the types of people who might want to get photos of grandkids or attachments from family/friends.
My 2 cents on that.
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| What pisses me off the most about Bellsouth is that they are going crazy advertising DSL Lite at the $25 price point to make it appear as if it's only a couple bucks more than traditional dial-up. But actually it's $40 for most people who don't have their lame Bellsouth Unlimited plan, and there's a one year contract.  When I used to have Bellsouth for dsl, they had awesome newsgroups and ran a pretty reliable 1.5/256, but their pricing has needed help for a long time.  But unfortunately, they will always continue to pull in the clueless and/or are still a monopoly in many areas. |
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