iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to gatorkram
Re: *raises hand timidly* Absolutely agreed on the part that people should still chip in for their broadband connectivity. However the question is of where government money should go to help things out.
This may sound harsh, but IMO the government's money is better spent bringing DSL to an area that has no wireline internet than bringing fiber to an area that has 3M down, 768k up DSL. Even if (gasp) the fiber was 50/50 for $50 and the DSL was 3/768 for the same price. This is from a guy who has a 22/5 Comcast connection at his apartment, shares a gigabit connection at his university next door, and goes back home to parents with a 512k WISP connection (2M has the same 25GB cap and costs $100 per month).
To get cable at the last location, the bill would be $9000. A little up the road, some friends have a longish driveway. $2000 for cable. So they're using wireless, same as my family. I'm 100% sure both they and we would switch immediately if Verizon DSL became available at our respective houses. You won't see that kind of signup rates if we were in an area with DSL and some provider laid fiber down. Sure, I'd switch. They probably wouldn't. |
