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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
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1 edit | I just did the consumer math I had business class (my Autonomous System and IP range advertised to Internet) with a whopping 14,400bps (symmetrical modem) -- with the note that I was paying for the 28,800bps service at the time (but didn't feel like buying a 28,800bps modem), in 1996-1997, for $150/month or so, and a backup ISP for about $50 a month (I forget the exact amount), plus the phone lines which were each $10 or so a month (I had a CLEC for most my phone lines). Well, using the 28,800 number, I doubled it each year for the next 10 years, and guess what number I got? 29,491,200bps. That's a little bit close to the 30,000,000bps inbound in their chart for the same price ($199/month with 2 year contract). Both had no SLA that was worth anything.
Note that in fact the 30,000,000 is not symmetrical. A better comparison might be to their 15,000,000 service, which is, according to my "doubling every year at same price point" discovery and theory, a year behind. Furthermore, would they advertise my ASN for the same price? Or is that more?
Anyway, just a nice comparison to see the consumer price index for bandwidth speeds: approximately doubling every year.
Let's see if that's true for my current service here in deathstar land:
2004 6mbps in, 604kbps out (Sonic.net AT&T DSL)
2007 6mbps-20mbps in, 500kbps-1mbps out (Comcast floaters)
So, double 6m is 12m (2005 -- did not have), double 12m is 24m (2006 -- did not have), and double 24m is 48mbps (2007 -- do not have). However, in the market I was for the above comparison, 50mbps assymetrical is available.
So, yeah, it's basically doubling in the markets that follow the trends. In the deathstar markets, it's at what, half the rate? | |
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
1 edit | said by Ulmo:So, yeah, it's basically doubling in the markets that follow the trends. In the deathstar markets, it's at what, half the rate? Not even that. The best that they can deliver to you (and
the NSA) is 6Mbps/1Mbps UVerse. And to think that they call it
fiber. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
But then considering that the only other major choice
is Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner), and that I had severe
connectivity problems with them, I'll take it.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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