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Re: OOL price went up??? Motaboy,
Most people don't pay for any extra services, so it's still $35 less than the Verizon business plan.
As far as 3 day retention, the retention on text groups is way longer that that. Binaries are around 3 days though.
Bottom line is that, for most people is that:
1) OOL is still a good value (the best?) compared to what else is out there.
or
2) OOL is the only choice
Yes, it's frustrating, but that's why they are raising the price, because they can and we still have no where else to go that's better. |
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| said by Lex Luthor:
Motaboy,
Most people don't pay for any extra services, so it's still $35 less than the Verizon business plan.
As far as 3 day retention, the retention on text groups is way longer that that. Binaries are around 3 days though.
Bottom line is that, for most people is that:
1) OOL is still a good value (the best?) compared to what else is out there.
or
2) OOL is the only choice
Yes, it's frustrating, but that's why they are raising the price, because they can and we still have no where else to go that's better.
Text groups are only retained for 3 days. If my modem is not bricked yet I will hook it back up, take a pic, and show you. I know the text groups use to have a longer retention but over the last week or so it went down to 3 days.
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| Mota, don't bother, not that I don't believe you.
Maybe something went wrong and they lost some history recently. Why don't you see how it is a week or two from now and see if the retention is back.
Anyhow, doesn't really matter for purposes of this thread. |
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| said by Lex Luthor:
Yes, it's frustrating, but that's why they are raising the price, because they can and we still have no where else to go that's better.
And sometimes, companies have no competition because of unfair business practices. I can’t wait to see what Cablevision has in store for competing VoIP services…
Cablevision focus of antitrust probe
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said by Lex Luthor:
Mota, don't bother, not that I don't believe you.
Maybe something went wrong and they lost some history recently. Why don't you see how it is a week or two from now and see if the retention is back.
Anyhow, doesn't really matter for purposes of this thread.
Sorry to late  It's not that something went wrong and they lost some history. It's been 3 days starting from a week or so ago.
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| In response to the newserver, if your patient, you can send an email to the good people at »news.cis.dfn.de. They'll set you up with a text group account, with around two or so month retention for free. Just thought I'd let ya know. |
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said by Lex Luthor:
Bottom line is that, for most people is that:
1) OOL is still a good value (the best?) compared to what else is out there.
or
2) OOL is the only choice
Yes, it's frustrating, but that's why they are raising the price, because they can and we still have no where else to go that's better.
People who were "talked into" OOL (like my mom) really won't understand 3 rate hikes in a year. At the margins I think some people will start making the choice to go back to dial-up for fear that this service is heading to 100$ a month in a fairly short period of time.
OOL is reaching a point where it would make sense to have a DSL line. I think the bitching, capping, whining from OOL about users using their bandwidth is going to get tiresome very fast. I know people want the ability to smoke their connection and never have to worry if you feel like running WINMX 24 hours a day like you can with dialup or DSL. No one gives a crap about the technical problems or DOCSISXYZ or other people on their node or any of that. MAYBE if CV/Lightpath were to hold the line on price people will be willing to accept all kinds of limitations but when the monthly fee is skyrocketing no one wants to hear about limitations on the service. |
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