 Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: [TWC] Virtually All TWC Customers Face $3.95 Modem Rental Fe said by hottboiinnc:I'm not spamming think you. I simply made a comment. And like i said, services will be available next week and at that time a name will be available. But also good luck on those modem fees with TWC and any caps they put in. and remember- any server on a res connection with them will get you kicked off.
And with any 3rd provider costs are normally higher than with the actual last mile owner.- look at the cost of DSL.
Honestly, who cares about a modem rental fee when at the price you stated, with TW you can get twice the downstream, over twice the upstream, pay the modem lease fee and still be better off than this ‘mystery provider’. No matter how you attempt to spin it, that is simply not justifiable.
As for the prices of DSL, sorry, I don’t keep up with outdated and obsolete technology. I don’t go online and look at what blank audio cassette tapes are selling for these days, and I definitely don’t look at what’s going on in the dead land of DSL.
None of what you said applies to me personally. Time Warner has no caps, as a Signature Home customer it appears I’ll be exempt from the lease fee, and I have no desire to host a server. And yesterday, I thought you posted that today (as in 10/4/12) a press release would be sent out.
And one more thing, I prefer to do business with companies that are reputable, have a history and I know that when I wake up in the morning I can go on the internet, make a phone call and watch TV, without fear of having no service because my el cheapo no name start up provider couldn’t afford to be in business any longer and closed up shop.
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kudos:1 | said by Steve Mehs:Honestly, who cares about a modem rental fee when at the price you stated, with TW you can get twice the downstream, over twice the upstream, pay the modem lease fee and still be better off than this ‘mystery provider’. No matter how you attempt to spin it, that is simply not justifiable.
Agreed... so what if the modem rental fee went up by a dollar, consider this as part of the price package.
said by Steve Mehs:As for the prices of DSL, sorry, I don’t keep up with outdated and obsolete technology. I don’t go online and look at what blank audio cassette tapes are selling for these days, and I definitely don’t look at what’s going on in the dead land of DSL.
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
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said by Steve Mehs:As for the prices of DSL, sorry, I don’t keep up with outdated and obsolete technology. I don’t go online and look at what blank audio cassette tapes are selling for these days, and I definitely don’t look at what’s going on in the dead land of DSL.
Fair enough. But some people still prefer sail over power, some people still prefer archery over firearms, and some people would rather pay under $20 for outdated and obsolete tech; and apply the difference (can be as much as $25 a month in Comcastland!) to other, more pleasurable, things.
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Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | And if you live less than a few feet away from the CO your 15Mb speed drops like a rock. DSL is an old outdated technology that has no place in the modern world. Craprizon is my phone company, living in a rural area 10-15 miles from the CO meant no chance of DSL…until remote terminals came about in around 2006. My aunt who lives around the corner, whose house I can see out my back window, can get Craprizon’s DSL via a remote terminal. I cannot, why I don’t know, but I do not care. The max speed she can get is 1.5Mb downstream. I can’t live with anything less than my 50Mb Wideband.
Last Sunday I went into work for a few hours, to take care of some stuff. We have a 1.5Mb connection. I brought in my tablet so I could stream some NFL Sunday Ticket and Red Zone. That lame 1.5Mb connection couldn’t even stream my football without buffering every few seconds. When people ask me to clean out their computers, I usually do a reformat, but always take their towers at home. Even at a 10 or 20 Mb connection, do you have any idea how much faster it is just to download a few year’s worth of updates with a 50Mb connection versus whatever they have.
I can just imagine the typical DSL connection completely choking while I stream DirecTV Red Zone on one tablet with the DirecTV app, NFL Red Zone using the TW app on the other tablet, while downloading 10 years worth of update to the neighbors Window XP machine while other things are going on, on my network. With over 20 internet enabled devices in my network, I cannot imagine slooooooooooooooow DSL being much fun to put up with.
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said by Steve Mehs:As for the prices of DSL, sorry, I don’t keep up with outdated and obsolete technology. I don’t go online and look at what blank audio cassette tapes are selling for these days, and I definitely don’t look at what’s going on in the dead land of DSL.
None of what you said applies to me personally. Time Warner has no caps, as a Signature Home customer it appears I’ll be exempt from the lease fee, and I have no desire to host a server.
Hear, hear my good man!
I would certainly understand if a Signature Home customer might also wonder why the little people were taking mass transit (or even a personal wheeled vehicle) across town when they could take a limousine or helicopter instead. Seems rather silly, don't you think, to concentrate on the price of an item when there's so much money available to satisfy our every whim?
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join:2005-07-16 | I'd rather take my Lincoln SUV around town then take a private helicopter. My Lincoln probably has a better audio system  |
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said by Steve Mehs:And if you live less more than a few feet away from the CO your 15Mb speed drops like a rock.
I think you meant to type ... and at 9,156 feet my mother still gets 4.8Mb/s.
DSL is an old outdated technology that has no place in the modern world.
Craprizon is my phone company ... I can’t live with anything less than my 50Mb Wideband.
Last Sunday I went into work for a few hours, to take care of some stuff. We have a 1.5Mb connection. I brought in my tablet so I could stream some NFL Sunday Ticket and Red Zone ...
... With over 20 internet enabled devices in my network, I cannot imagine slooooooooooooooow DSL being much fun to put up with.
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Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | Yes, I meant more. Thank you. Sorry, 5Mb is unacceptable for almost 2013. Considering all you have to do is read the front page of this very biased anti-cable site to see stories about the telcos bleeding DSL subscribers to the cable companies, it’s pretty obvious that people want more speed and are dumping DSL in droves for cable broadband. And the lame telcos like A Fee&Fee and Craprizon are completely abandoning their DSL infrastructure to focus on their extremely low capped wireless services. As a sports fanatic (NFL, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, some NCAA football and trying to get into the UFC), I cannot live without both TV and online access to my favorite teams, players and drivers. It’s really not much out of ordinary to have 20 internet devices, considering just about every electronic device you buy these days is wifi enabled or has an Ethernet jack. I miscounted, I actually have only 19 internet enabled devices. Two desktops, laptop, TV, two blu ray players, A/V Receiver, Xbox 360, PS3, two tablets, smartphone, MP3 Player, two DirecTV DVRs, Sprint Airave, two ancient Windows Pocket PCs, internet enabled printer.
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| said by Steve Mehs:Sorry, 5Mb is unacceptable for almost 2013.
The year is irrelevant. And 5Mb/s is an acceptable alternative to surrendering my first born son AND left nut for "blazing fast" cable Internet.
We aren't all millionaires with Porsches and Jaguars.
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join:2001-11-25
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kudos:8 | reply to Steve Mehs
" I miscounted, I actually have only 19 internet enabled devices. Two desktops, laptop, TV, two blu ray players, A/V Receiver, Xbox 360, PS3, two tablets, smartphone, MP3 Player, two DirecTV DVRs, Sprint Airave, two ancient Windows Pocket PCs, internet enabled printer."
You are using them all at the same time?
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Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
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quote:
The year is irrelevant. And 5Mb/s is an acceptable alternative to surrendering my first born son AND left nut for "blazing fast" cable Internet.
Actually its completely relevant. I’m an electronics geek and live for technology. I had 5Mb broadband back in 2005, if I still was at the speed I’d be appalled. As time goes by, things get bigger, faster, more stable and reliable, and I enjoy keeping up with the latest advancements in technology.
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You are using them all at the same time?
I’d say at most 5-7 devices are using network resources on any given Sunday during football and the race. Right now two computers are in use, the Xbox is downloading updates, the DirecTV DVR is downloading Boardwalk Empire on HBO On Demand and I’m streaming Sirius XM from my tablet to the Jambox.
The faster downstream/upstream speeds are nice, especially when I was on vacation a few months ago. I used the backdoor way to stream TWC TV without having to be directly on your home network. Using Team Viewer to remote desktop into connect to my home computer and stream the TWC TV in the browser while I was in Ohio. Hooked my laptop up to the hotel TV via HDMI and it was just like I was at home. Between the nice wideband connection at home and being in a decent Sprint 4G area I was all set.
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said by Steve Mehs:Actually its completely relevant. I’m an electronics geek and live for technology.
My condolences. I use technology, but I don't live for it. I have better things to do with my money.
Which reminds me; it is time to pick up 士郎 正宗's PIECES2, which, oddly enough, costs the same as the difference between what I'd pay for "blazing fast" cable Internet from Comcast, and what I currently pay for my "tortoise slow" DSL from Sonic.net, LLC.
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join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | reply to hobgoblin
you'd think that TW would just offer something similar to their users - built into the set top box if necessary, or just through a web connection tied to user MACs and an account password.
i'm sure there are contract issues, but i bet a license through sling would sort things out.
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We been with TWC for a very long time. If they try to pull the $3.95 Modem Rental Fee on us. I'll be right on the phone in a single heart beat.
When we called about the 30/5 extreme broadband when it first came out. They had to send out a truck in order to change out the modem. Which you normally had to pay a small fee for them rolling out the truck to install the new modem.
But since we had service with TWC for all these years. They waived the fee for them coming and installing new modem. So they better waive the modem fee for us too.
Cause I will drop them like a hot potato without thinking twice. They are not the only fish in the pond here. We been here for 25+ years long be for even broadband was available here. |
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