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| Broadband Progress I pay almost 100 bucks a month for 128kbit ISDN as I have ZERO broadband options, and don't live out in the boonies. While my neighbors can get cable broadband.
If anyone is getting screwed here, it's me. | |
| said by The Gizmo:I pay almost 100 bucks a month for 128kbit ISDN as I have ZERO broadband options, and don't live out in the boonies. While my neighbors can get cable broadband. If anyone is getting screwed here, it's me. YOU'RE not getting what you paid for you're paying more then what broadband should cost to ya.
FYI ISDN IS OBSOLETE... IT'S LIKE EXPENSIVE DIALUP...
ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN CAUSE IT'S ALREADY LONG CEASE TO EXIST | |
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said by The Gizmo:I pay almost 100 bucks a month for 128kbit ISDN as I have ZERO broadband options, and don't live out in the boonies. While my neighbors can get cable broadband. If anyone is getting screwed here, it's me. Why can your neighbors get cable and you can't? Write to the government and force the cable company to build out like everyone wants the Telephone Companies to do.
Did you look into Satellite broadband? | |
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said by kakleng :
YOU'RE not getting what you paid for you're paying more then what broadband should cost to ya.
FYI ISDN IS OBSOLETE... IT'S LIKE EXPENSIVE DIALUP...
ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN CAUSE IT'S ALREADY LONG CEASE TO EXIST
I know exactly what ISDN is. I've had it for six years, and after six years of ISDN, you tend to become an expert at it, that and Cisco routers. ISDN may be slow bandwidth wise and a very mature technology (30+ years), but it's not going away (check out the ISDN forums on this site). T1 (PRI circuit) uses ISDN technology, T1 and ISDN are the same, except T1 has 23 64kbit channels. As ISDN has 2 64kbit channels and costs a lot less.
ISDN is like expensive dialup, but it's better than dialup in the sense it's faster in every way, only takes 1 second (or less) to connect to your ISP, it's Digital (so your ping is a lot better). 56k dialup is slow in every way, and you're lucky to get anywhere close to the maximum 53k or so speed (it's impossible to get 56k on 56k since the FCC limits the maximum speed on analog phone lines to 53k). Long ago when I had 56k dialup, I got 24k connections if I was LUCKY. The phone company could get SDSL out since it can be repeated, unlike ADSL. But they choose not to.
said by batterup :
Why can your neighbors get cable and you can't? Write to the government and force the cable company to build out like everyone wants the Telephone Companies to do.
Did you look into Satellite broadband?
Well Satellite isn't an option for me because I use the services that it's not good for: video streaming, audio streaming, etc. The response time on satellite is 500ms at best, which is unacceptable for me. I've looked into wireless and it worked great, sometimes, it had a nice ping and nice transfer rates when it was working good. Unfortunately it used the 2.4ghz band which every wireless device in north america uses as well. So it was prone to packetless at daytime when everyone's up and about, worked good at night though.
As for the cable issue, I have a different cable company than my neighbors which have Time Warner (Road Runner). Road Runner has like a rule, that if they provide service in your area, they make an effort to also include digital tv and broadband. My cable company has no such rule, all they provide is analog cable from 20 years ago. They haven't upgraded or have done a single thing to their cable services in 20 years (or however long cable has been around). It's still the same overpriced, no new channels analog-bull they provided when cable was first introduced. They even forgot they service my area, everytime I call them I get a random response to as whether they service my area when I know they do.
I've looked into every type of broadband on the face of the planet, I don't think there's any hope. I'd have more hope if I was out in the boonies as most likely the companies assume I can get broadband in my area (obviously I can't) and therefore do nothing new to my area. My only hope is a new service in Houston, Tx. reaching out to my area called Fision (FTTH) which provides a minimum guaranteed bandwidth of 10/10 mbits and it's unlimited. That'd be a nice upgrade from ISDN for 6 years, but something tells me I'll be an arm's length out of reach like everything else. | |
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