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GorbGuy
join:2003-09-23
Middleville, MI
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| Re: Broadband? Not! 1.5Mb/256Kb for $79.97/month + $299.00 equipment fee
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6.0Mb/608Kb for $34.99/month + $0.00 equipment fee.
Over twice as expensive for 1/4 the speed, and let's not mention that little 3 initial "F" word. Living "in the middle of nowhere" sure is expensive. But why is my phone service charge the same as someone living in the middle of say, Detroit? *rant* And why does the phone company have a RT (that was installed 2 years ago,) 1500 feet from my house, with no DSL?? Maybe they drove around the area and saw countless DirecWay/HughesNet and Wildblue dishes on homes and said to themselves "how will we ever compete with that!" I dunno, just seems odd. Perhaps they're just too busy trying to provide TV service to people who already have multiple options. Or maybe it's because they're too busy trying to fight off muni-projects. *rant over*
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|  CMoore2004
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join:2003-02-06
Jonesville, MI
| Re: Broadband? Not! I'm about 300 feet from an RT also. My aunt, grandma, and several neighbors are still on dial-up. I'm ok with them not knowing about EVDO. Keeps my speeds steady. 
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Fox McCloud
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join:2006-07-23
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| Re: Broadband? Not! said by CMoore2004  :I'm about 300 feet from an RT also. My aunt, grandma, and several neighbors are still on dial-up. I'm ok with them not knowing about EVDO. Keeps my speeds steady. yup, I'm in a similar situation; I'm 4250 feet from one RT (sadly, not lit with DSL yet), so, when ADSL2/ADSL2+ is deployed, I'll be able to get really nice speeds...but, that's just the problem, the RT isn't lit yet.
Either way, I have EVDO Revision A, too, and I have been very very happy with it; a fairly consistent 1250-1280k down and 200-250k up (would be around triple this, but the router limits upload speed...it's just a bug) with a ping of around 100ms to www.google.com.
If I play on the right gaming server for Battlefield 2, I can get a ping around 150-160 ms; not the greatest in the world, but it sure beats dial-up!
I just can't wait until Sprint optimizes their network next year to allow gaming and VoIP applications to get the necessary latency they need. (and EVDO can have a ping around 60-70 ms, so that's pretty doggone good). | |
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