2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI
| Of course it doesn't mean anything
Because @home is insignificant and unnecessary. That is a terrible business model to build, where your service is so unimportant that your clients don't even skip a beat when you go out of business. That tells you it was doomed from the start. How is Earthlink going to be any different with Time Warner Cable with the exception that AOL-Time Warner faces far greater anti-trust scrutiny, and any abuses that cost Earthlink money will surely trigger sanctions against AOL-Time Warner. Of course then they'll just pull AOL from cable modems which will make my point that the AOL-Time Warner has 0 synergy and is the most overrated, overblown, and overhyped merger in the history of capitalism. It's much todo about nothing.v |
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
 ·Comcast
| said by 2farfromCO:
Of course then they'll just pull AOL from cable modems which will make my point that the AOL-Time Warner has 0 synergy and is the most overrated, overblown, and overhyped merger in the history of capitalism.
No actually it's the second. The first is Excite@Home. It made even less sense than the AOL/TW merger although I agree that there is absolutely no synergy there either.
Both were very bad ideas but AOL/TW is at least a profitable conglomerate. Excite@Home however has been bleeding red ink for years. |
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2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI
| If you lived in Farmington Hills instead of the fairy tale world of Plymouth(have you basic cable TV rates even crossed the $30/month barrier yet?, and when did you get cable modems? '97?), you might be whistling a different toon. Time Warner blackmailed us for 3 years just to get c cable modems and digital cable even though we were and still are paying the highest rates in the Metro Detroit area. Now that we finally have cable modems, they are charging us $84/month for them one way or another. That is downright extortion. |
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spenster
join:2001-04-03
Houston, TX
| $84/month? That's it? You should see my monthly bill. Try $43/mo for basic cable, $79/mo for "1500/1500" internet, and $10/mo for modem rental. After taxes it comes out easily to about $155/mo. To top it all off I don't even see the "1500/1500" either. I did an average of 450 down and about 600 up. Funny thing is that the 1000/1000 plan is/was $49/mo until they changed their offerings. They no longer offer the "1500/1500" but I'm supposed to be able to keep it still since I connected before the switch.
By the way, anyone who wants to know which company this is that sucks so bad is Optel. |
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
·Comcast
| reply to 2farfromCO7
Actually I pay about $75.00 per month for Basic 1,2 and 3 plus internet access. (Basic 1 is just the local broadcast channels plus public access. I need to subscribe to 2 and 3 to get most of "basic" cable). The modem is included in the $40 price for the internet service. Since I only have basic I don't need to pay for a cable box so I don't use one. I'm not sure how much they would charge for it.
By the way, I used to live in Dearborn Heights and I got cable service when it first came out which was approximately March 1998. My move to Plymouth was seamless. The only thing that changed was I got a different brand of cable modem. I went from a Lan City to a 3Com. |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
|  reply to spenster
If your upload is 1500kpbs that rockz! But your right - for the money they need to up your download. $47.31 a month for INSIGHT@HOME here ( tax modem & all ) about another $87.55 for the full DIGITAL CABLE package on 2 tvz.
download in the range of 3600 to 5500 kbps upload capped at 128kpbs ( in the range of about 100kpbs most days ). But hey now that @HOME is going broke = phone support has gotten better in my area. Heck they answered the phone in less than 5 minutes the other day. Couldn't solve my issue.
Got booted upwards. But before they answered I realized the issue was my fault. LOL!
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Test Your Anti Virus & Firewall - MORE!! at IGGYZ |
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2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI | reply to spenster
No, that's $84.95 for internet with a 256k upload not 1500. Dumb comparison. |
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spenster
join:2001-04-03
Houston, TX
| Not so dumb if you would have read the post more carefully. Did you notice the quotations? They're selling it as 1500 but I have yet to see it. Besides, with the SLA not allowing any kind of servers, having such an upload speed is useless. Do you average 450 or less down? Have you seen throughput fall to less than 50kb/sec? If do the math I'm sure you'll see that price/bitrate ratio will be quite different. |
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