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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to sonicmerlin
Re: I have a feeling... said by sonicmerlin:I'm seriously starting to wonder if you and openbox are the same person with 2 different ID tags. You two always reply in unison. I seldom reply to fiberguy  . If anything you should accuse fAcEtIOUs and me of being the same person since we appear to have a lot of similar business beliefs  said by sonicmerlin:The fact that he offers such incredibly low-cost tiers ($10/month?) which caps that are far, far bigger than Comcast's, without having the massive size and economy of scale as the incumbent ISPs (as well as their own self-built middle mile backhaul), speaks to how much the incumbents price-gouge. You do realize that his "caps" are because he most likely throttles his download tiers at approximately 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Mbps and his upload tiers at 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, 315, 360, and 405 Kbps. So, for about $30, I get roughly a 6/512 DSL connection that I could pay AT&T ~$34/mth for over two years. Not too awfully inspiring...especially since I won't have access to WiFi with AT&T on the go.
Where's that truth in advertising and everyone around here seems to crave? How can knightmb possibly have a 100 exabyte cap, when his maximum tier appears to top out at 2,031 GB/mth? I want to download my 100 exabytes for $30/mth. | | |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | sonicmerlin is paranoid... MAR_03_2002 and I are not the same person. But, he can believe what ever he wants at night to make himself sleep better.. his choice.
Even as you say about the "caps"... which he clearly has some.. I'd think that many users here would be, as usual, upset that someone is saying that have an "all you can eat" service when clearly he doesn't... Yet, sonicmerlin follows up with low-cost tier pricing as his rebuttal as well as "price gouging"... As capitalism states, you price your product at what the market can handle..
I am also one that agrees that different services can offer different advantages.. but again, as you point out, DSL is comparable to the WISP here.
And I will throw something in as well... if the internet costs about $10 or so per month per subscriber, I don't necessarily believe that it needs to be priced as a certain percentage above the actual cost.. I find an INCREDIBLE value at $42 a month for my 16/2 internet service considering the fact that just 10 years ago, it was about $50 a month for dial up and extra phone line (much of what went to taxes and fees) and was good for just one computer.. with today's broadband, I have about 20 devices hooked up to my one connection, have a gazillion times more bandwidth than dialup, and I pay far less than what I used to. So for me, this works. | |
openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Agreed. In 1994, I paid ~$29/mth for a dial-up connection theoretically capable of 28.8 kbps. Today I pay $38.99/mth for a 12/2 Mbps connection, that consistently clocks in at 13/3 Mbps with PowerBoost and a sub 35 ms latency. I'll take that increase in value any day of the week. Similar to you, I currently have 14 IP devices on my network with no bandwidth constraints. | |
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