Mediacom Hints At 50, 100 Mbps Speeds > Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb?

reply to IowaMan

Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb?

No Lisco reviews here on DSLR, that I have found.
Any Iowans with knowledge, please fill us in here.

Would encourage any Lisco customers to review here, in the Review section.

reply to FBGuy
Not necessarily as they have a 20 GB Cap
»www.lisco.com/Fair%20Access%20Po···5-09.pdf will
edit reply to Bender will
I do hope that the upload for the 50 Mb is 10 Mb

Wow, that's a low cap. I'll take 12/1 with no cap over 100 Mbit with 20GB any day...

reply to IowaMan
dear lord. that is abysmal. kinda puts the technology to waste if you put caps on it like that.

reply to IowaMan
The 20G cap isn't as onerous as Comcast and some of the other providers. Its more like they charge for their service by traffic moved instead of instantaneous speed. It actually sounds pretty fair to me, since their initial prices are pretty low -- especially for 100M/100M service.

Doing some algebra on their bundles, I come up with a basic price of $40/mo. for 100M/100M service with a 20GB/mo. cap. While that cap is very low, it would suffice for probably 75% of users who just surf and email with an occasional download.

If you want to get more transport on a temporary basis, just keep downloading and they'll charge you $0.50/GB for transport over 20GB/mo. For what my provider charges for 100M/100M service, I would receive 129GB/mo. for the same price ($94.50/mo.) under their plan. That would serve my needs nearly 100% of the time.

All in all, I'd like to see a little lower price per GB for the add-on, but I think their model is fine. Users who want more can have as much as they want without fear of being cut off or having their speed cut. But prices remain low for occasional users. It's the best of both worlds.

Then there are those of us who use 150+ GB per month on a regular basis, for which 50¢ per GB would be rather ridiculous...

To each his own, but if I get LAN-speed for my WAN connection I sure as heck am gonna use it.

Here's the thing: my usage varies between maybe 75GB per month and 175 GB per month. Average usage is probably around 120GB. Now, all things considered, my bill would tend to be below $100 per month, but with MeidaCom offering an unlimited-use plan for less than that...well, you get the picture.

I don't doubt that there's a reason why the per-GB costs and overages are high like that; it isn't all that cheap bringing bandwidth out beyond large cities. However if Lisco is offering 100 Mbps service I'd think they have at least 200Mbits of committed bandwidth, and at those commits you're looking at 20¢ per GB at most...assuming people actually use their connections. Yes, the speed is awesome, but you run into the problem of being unable to use that speed due to caps.

20¢ per GB when purchased in quantity? Fine. 40-50¢? Nope.

reply to joebarnhart
155USD for 300GB and they said canada was expensive
i pay 39.99 CAD about 30$ USD for 1600GB
and the 200GB tier is 29.99 CAD

what a rip off

reply to joebarnhart
If you`re paying over 100 bucks a month, a freaking premium price, you sure as heck better not be capped on fiber. There is absolutely no reason for them to charge such an insane amount per gigabyte and institute such insanely low caps. There`s nothing logical or `ok` about it. Jeezus.

reply to FBGuy
Wow, I checked out their web site. Those prices and speeds are what the goal in America should be, but aren't. Good for them!

Oh, there's the cap. Ick...

reply to IowaMan
Oooops. 20 GB cap is too low. Never mind on my previous comment.

reply to joebarnhart
You don't really need that speed for simple web browsing, email, and the occasional download isn't worth the price if you can only download 5 DVDs worth of legitimate video per month. Almost!