 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
1 edit | Well, if Pew internet says it's so... It MUST be so!
Who are these people and how do they and The Leichtman Research Group suddenly become authoritative figures on who has what kind of connection?
What the numbers do tell you is that with such a wide discrepancy between their two results, that it's doubtful that anyone really knows for sure.
I think the numbers also tell you that when you apply a reasonable margin for error, that it's any ones game.
Personally, with DSL's pricing and promotion schemes of the last year or so, I would have expected them to BLOW away the cable competition if in fact, they really had anything that worthwhile to compete with.
I mean, who here hasn't been enticed with..12.99 a month...come on down and get it, cause the price is right?
With THAT kind of aggressive promotion, these numbers should be blow away..in favor of DSL..no questions asked..80% have dsl..20% have cable.
But, they AREN'T that at all, and whomever's numbers you care to believe, the difference represents just a few percentage points either way.
I think that tells the real story here and that cable, despite it's generally higher cost, has many people staying with it and believing apparently that it's the better way to go.
This is NOT to knock DSL and those who have it. Many people have great connections and service and are happy with it. But yet cables speeds..no contracts..relative ease of getting connected..all have real value to consumers..and they're willing to pay for it.
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I mean, who here hasn't been enticed with..12.99 a month...come on down and get it, cause the price is right?
At the lousy speeds you get for $12.99, I would never consider it. Verizon DSL at $30 for 3Mb or Road Runner at $40 for 7Mb.
For Granny, people on budgets, cheapos and technophobes >1Mb DSL is fine, but for actual power users, I wouldn't take DSL for free. |
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I mean, who here hasn't been enticed with..12.99 a month...come on down and get it, cause the price is right?
At the lousy speeds you get for $12.99, I would never consider it. Verizon DSL at $30 for 3Mb or Road Runner at $40 for 7Mb. For Granny, people on budgets, cheapos and technophobes >1Mb DSL is fine, but for actual power users, I wouldn't take DSL for free. Depends what you use it for
Kids, teenagers, budget people don't mind 1.5mb dsl or even 768k so long as it is faster then dialup
You be surprised how many are on 1.5 vs 3.0 or 7.0
A brother of mine pays only 14.99 a month for 384/128
cable connection that's a lot slower then 1.5 yet he doesn't mind so tell me why would he need anything faster. i guess its because you think its too slow?
You wouldn't take it for free eh??? sure, i think ya will
you're kidding right? |
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| reply to Rick
I have cable net but the only thing keeping me from switching from DSL is the fact it's not available at my location. This is probably one of the reasons why there haven't been huge numbers of ppl flocking to that $12.95/month DSL. As stated numberous times before, it's amazing how many people still can't get any HSI (in the U.S.). |
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| reply to tommy2004
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You wouldn't take it for free eh??? sure, i think ya will
you're kidding right?
No I’m not. I download Linux distros and videos from iTunes. I'm talking files in the couple GB range. It's bad enough on an 8Mb connection where I can get about 1 GB downloaded every 30 minutes. Anything less is completely unacceptable. I’m hoping we get upgraded to 15/2 like Time Warner is doing in some areas.
I used to pay $85/month for Road Runner Premium, now that I have cable TV, it's down to $70. The pricing for my area is as follows, if you have cable TV.
Road Runner- $40 7/384
Road Runner Premium- $70 8/512
That’s how desperately I want speed. I think the fact I spend $30 a month extra for 1Mb down extra speaks for itself that I wouldn’t take slow DSL for free. |
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Depends on where you live My cousin lives in the hood he pays comcast for the 6mb package(intro 29.99 after 6 months 42.99) but he get around 9mb down(the whole pipe) and only 340k up while I live in a better side of town I had the same package and was getting only about 4mb down and the same 340k up so I switched to ATT got there 6mb package for 29.99$ and I'm getting 5100down and 628 up it works out for me |
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| reply to BigRooster
True. I'm one of the unfortunate people who don't have DSL or Cable available in my area. I would love to get anything better than dial up (excluding satellite because it just too expensive and not much better that dial up).  |
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