LAMapper
@rr.com
|  How much and where?
How much is Mediacom charging for their 'MAX' tier for 15Mbps right now? (Will this charge increase with 20Mbps / 2 Mbps?)
Where are they rolling out this 'new' service to?
Does any company light up fiber (and offer connections to home users) in California, Florida and/or Washington (State, not DC)? |
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BSD24
Premium
join:2008-04-30
Taunton, MA
clubs:
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| now there is a good point. Cable operators use a Hybrid Fiber-Coax network for all 3 services. I think it might be more suggestive to say to Comcast or other operators to just build off the fiber part of the network all the way to the home. But maybe not, you never know in this ever-changing times. |
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drslash
Goya Asma
Premium
join:2002-02-18
Marion, IA | reply to LAMapper
15/1 is currently $60/month, $75/month without TV service. It has been announced that these rates will not go up. As stated by the above report, 98% of their service areas will be able to get 20/2.
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Mortis
Premium
join:2001-12-07
Clearlake, CA
clubs:
·Mediacom
| I'd be satisfied if I got my 8 mbps 50% of teh time....20 mbps is a pipe dream. My upload speed is rock solid but download speed is almost always 3 mbps or so, except for late night after midnight...
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LAMapper
@rr.com
|  Thanks for the info, I am fortunate to live in a part of the country where there are plenty of options, I know many are not that lucky.
The banner at the top of this forum, for me, is from Sonic, "6.0Mbps/768Kbps: $34.95/month, from California's #1 rated ISP on BBR!"
When I speed tested my cable today I got 6026 Kbps up and 484 Kbps down, not terrible, but I would like at least 10 Mbps Up and 10 Mbps down...heck give me the 100 / 100 for $40 per month (see the article below). Of course I am paying less than $35 so that helps some.
And the 'chance' to get 6000 up consistently and even better get closer to 768 down with Sonic is very tempting. After all with DSL being Point to point, and probably having a static IP (nice to have) I would not have my bandwidth sucked out by others. Yes very tempting indeed.
Makes me sick to think that in Japan they can get the following (while 100 Mbps is not all over Japan, Japan still averages 61 Mbps; that has to help them innovate and come up with new uses, ideas, new revenue streams and more. I know I am not alone in wanting it and I don't even use half of what many use (no videos, no gaming, no P2P, from my location the Cable company loves me!)
For the life of me I can't understand why some entrepreneur has not lit up some dark fiber and gone after 40% of the US market like they successfully did in two years in Japan. What would 40% of the US Cable / DSL market be worth anyway? Not to mention that 'cash flow' is King and with fiber, the bandwidth is almost limitless, so no need for arbitrary throttling as many companies want to do to us today. Hmmm the possibilities. I know I would buy their service, heck I would go to work for them and help them grow, what a rush!!!!
Link to article about faster speeds in most of the industrialized world compared to what we have here in the U.S.: »www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co···larticle
(If I ever build a community, I am going to run fiber in two different directions to two different NOCs - i.e. not owned by the same company - and let the community own and run the fiber company for the benefit of the community! Think it would offset 'gas' prices? Probably not, and yes I am a dreamer! Perhaps a few twirly (name?) similar to the QR5 (see link below), but cheaper, around $13,000 to generate power and sell excess energy back to the power company. And 'buried' power lines so we never lose power in a storm, ever. Electric powered vehicles in town (leave the gas ones in a 'garage' each day a little ways away from home and hop in my electric car to/from home. Low and dimmed outdoor lighting, so you can see the stars again. Hmmm.)
»www.quietrevolution.co.uk/qr5.htm �€“ QR5 is more expensive than the twirly (sic) it retailed for around $13K, but the picture is similar. (search Vertical-Axis wind generation) |
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