Guy Waters
join:2001-12-04
San Francisco, CA
|  reply to Box435
Re: Dial Up Price Increase
The only way they can increase your speed above 28.8 is to put your service on copper pairs to the central office. 28.8 speed is a good indication you are on multiplexed carrier (pair gain/slc96) and 28.8 is as fast as it gets.
SBC/Yahoo has been quitely been retreating from the dial-up business for years and paying Level 3 transport fees rather than continuing to maintian the own dial up modems. Most of the dial up access numbers listed on their site belong to Level 3. »sbcyahoo.prodigy.net/openPhone/index.html
Maybe Level 3 is raising the price they charge AT&T/Yahoo for transport? |
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box435
@Level3.net
| reply to GorbGuy
oh ok....still very frustrating, I had dsl back in 2000 when I lived in NY, in 2001 I moved to NW lower Michigan and they did not even know what dsl was..I am 5 miles from town and don't know if I will ever be able to get dsl, but with everything there are trade offs...great quality of life up here, I don't even think I have a set of keys to my house and very rarely take the keys out of the ignition...maybe someday dsl will come. at least my mother in-law who lives in town has it so I can go there and use it... |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to Same letter
said by Same letter :
I'm not computer smart and hooking up to dsl kind of scares me. Interesting. Everybody wonders why, in this day and age, there are folks that have cheap DSL available to them, but stick with dial-up. I guess alot of it is apprehension over something new, and the assumption that anything new and faster must be more complicated.
In fact, I think most people would agree that DSL is lots easier to deal with than dial-up, assuming all you're doing is connecting a single computer to a DSL modem, and not setting up a router and a home network. 'sounds like something the telcos should start emphasizing in their advertising - how easy and hassle-free DSL is, in addition to being faster, when compared to dial-up. |
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Noir7
join:2007-12-04
Atlanta, GA
| reply to GorbGuy
i got the same letter. but if you still have your answers discounts of 2, 5, 10 you still keep that, unless you change your complete choice plan, yeah they said they don't do them anymore. i pay 9.95 and its only going up to 12.95. i can understand the reason for the price increase though. think about it, new laptops there all wireless, and many don't even have a phone jack port. even popular websites want you to have a minimum connection speed of 256k so there graphics and movies can load and play. simply dial up is a dying tech. even software isn't compatible anymore. and i know it sucks if it isn't offered in your area, happy im moving. but get satilite, wild blue, or something. check into an air card with your cell phone services. or cable. you would be happier. i even heard aol and ppc, net0 all are raising theres. how the rep on the phone explained it to me. "when holly wood started producing color films, all the equipment changed to, everything was made to work with color, so over a few years, it cost more and more to make black and white films than it did to make color, you know, because all the reals, cameras, everything was made to work with color not black and white" it made sence to me |
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box435
@Level3.net | I can understand why they are increasing the price of dial up, I just think in those areas where they don't offer any other options besides dial up should be left at the lower price. |
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mtmra70
Premium
join:2001-03-22
Portage, MI | reply to GorbGuy
Can you get dry DSL for $15/mo? If not, dial-up would still be cheaper than DSL since dial-up would be considered "dry". |
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mrk22
join:2003-06-13
Eastlake, OH
| said by mtmra70  :...since dial-up would be considered "dry". How do you use dial-up Internet service without POTS? |
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mtmra70
Premium
join:2001-03-22
Portage, MI
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Hence the quotes. Yes, you use dial-up with POTS...but you use the dial-up service anywhere on any POTS line. Way back when, when you received an MSN, Earthlink, etc dial-up account, you only received login information (ID, pass, dial-in number, etc), you did not have to purchase phone service with it. |
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wayjac
Premium,MVM
join:2001-12-22
Indy
·AT&T Midwest
| said by mtmra70 :you did not have to purchase phone service with it. Prior to 2001 ameritech had dsl that did not require voice/phone service
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