PacketMan
@rr.com
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: rural option
said by TKJunkMail  :said by nnaarrnn :I know what you mean. We use sprint EVDO cards with Kyocera routers as backup systems for a couple of our clients who have trouble with their T-1s staying up during heavy rain. It makes a great way for the credit card machines to still work, but there's a lot of traffic being passed for some people. Credit card machines? Then I assume your clients are businesses. Then they should get a business account with an SLA and the 5 GB limit should not be a problem. Credit card machines hardly need broadband. They work fine on 300bps dialup links. Just get an n-way line-sharing device and a POTS line or two. No need for uselss SLAs. |
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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
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said by ydoucare :Large cities are the cause for this. They don't care about 2 or 3 people hogging a tower out in the boondocks. However, i'm sure they do care about 15+ people eating up a tower in a city such as Chicago, which is where they need to control bandwidth, as most of those towers only have 2 T1's worth of backhaul at most. There are plenty of people who use this as both their home and mobile connection in urban areas, my boss being one. Either case, 5 GB is ridiculous, they're just becoming followers. At least be a little different and try 10? Now it's REALLY becoming a ripoff at 59.99/month (or 61+ after tax) Wait, what makes you think they only have a few T1's? I only ask because most of the ones I have seen either have a microwave repeater on them for backhaul, or are hooked up to the PSTN directly at the tower via a CO/Switch, or remote switch, and those are fed by fiber in most cases, or again by microwave... What phone company were you talking about? I want to know so I don't make the mistake of buying their service one day...
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random_texan
join:2007-02-08
San Antonio, TX
| reply to KrK
said by KrK :said by Dogfather :You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. Which means his statement is still correct as in: "We have just as much right to broadband as the next guy..." Next guy has zero rights to it too! That's kinda why I said that. I don't have any illusion that I'm SUPPOSED to be provided broadband. I just didn't like the statement that people in rural areas such as myself are the reason these changes were happening. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to Dogfather
said by Dogfather :You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. You have the right to have broadband available. According to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, it is U.S. policy that affordable broadband will be made available to all Americans.
We're 12 years into it, and that policy has not been fulfilled. Yet. It may never be. |
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