  IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? Fairfield will my guess is one because of Lisco Fiber
Des Moines? | |
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 |  elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? any one know is Springfield MO is on the markets getting it
and is this new tiers or is MAX getting bumped for DOCSIS3.0 | |
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| | | mediacom will have a hard time competing with lisco. those people are so lucky. | |
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| | | | Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? No Lisco reviews here on DSLR, that I have found.
Any Iowans with knowledge, please fill us in here.
Would encourage any Lisco customers to review here, in the Review section. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? Wow, that's a low cap. I'll take 12/1 with no cap over 100 Mbit with 20GB any day... | |
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| | | | | dear lord. that is abysmal. kinda puts the technology to waste if you put caps on it like that. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? Then there are those of us who use 150+ GB per month on a regular basis, for which 50¢ per GB would be rather ridiculous...
To each his own, but if I get LAN-speed for my WAN connection I sure as heck am gonna use it. | |
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| | | | |  joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA
 ·Comcast
| Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? said by iansltx:Then there are those of us who use 150+ GB per month on a regular basis, for which 50¢ per GB would be rather ridiculous... To be fair, they do offer other tiers, including 100G limit for $75/mo. and 300G for $155/mo. Their tiers are approx. $0.40/GB incremental over the basic rate, so you get $0.10/GB discount for "pre-purchasing" your expected usage.
If you are a 150G user every month, you could opt for the 100G plan for $75 and plan to spend $25/mo. in overages each month for a total bill of $100/mo. Pretty good for a 100M/100M connection! Even better -- if you do not reach the 150G cap, you save money in those months.
I dunno but it seems like a pretty fair pricing scheme. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
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| Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? Here's the thing: my usage varies between maybe 75GB per month and 175 GB per month. Average usage is probably around 120GB. Now, all things considered, my bill would tend to be below $100 per month, but with MeidaCom offering an unlimited-use plan for less than that...well, you get the picture.
I don't doubt that there's a reason why the per-GB costs and overages are high like that; it isn't all that cheap bringing bandwidth out beyond large cities. However if Lisco is offering 100 Mbps service I'd think they have at least 200Mbits of committed bandwidth, and at those commits you're looking at 20¢ per GB at most...assuming people actually use their connections. Yes, the speed is awesome, but you run into the problem of being unable to use that speed due to caps.
20¢ per GB when purchased in quantity? Fine. 40-50¢? Nope. | |
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| | | | | | | | 155USD for 300GB and they said canada was expensive
i pay 39.99 CAD about 30$ USD for 1600GB
and the 200GB tier is 29.99 CAD
what a rip off | |
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1 edit | If you`re paying over 100 bucks a month, a freaking premium price, you sure as heck better not be capped on fiber. There is absolutely no reason for them to charge such an insane amount per gigabyte and institute such insanely low caps. There`s nothing logical or `ok` about it. Jeezus. | |
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| | | | | | You don't really need that speed for simple web browsing, email, and the occasional download isn't worth the price if you can only download 5 DVDs worth of legitimate video per month. Almost! | |
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| | | | | Oooops. 20 GB cap is too low. Never mind on my previous comment. | |
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1 edit | Wow, I checked out their web site. Those prices and speeds are what the goal in America should be, but aren't. Good for them!
Oh, there's the cap. Ick... | |
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| | bout time congrats mediacom. your starting to do it right. when you unleash these new tiers you need to bump up the slowest speeds too.
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tmodns.net speedtest result 11/5/09 - 2996kbps
sbcglobal.net speedtest result 11/5/09 - 5256kbps | |
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|  jlramirezPremium
join:2004-10-01
Sugar Grove, IL | Re: bout time They still need to figure out how to do real static IPs. I'd rather them get with the program like everyone else vs their psuedo-static/sticky IP scheme. | |
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hroo772Darkness Fears MePremium
join:2002-04-05
Mclean, VA | Guess the upload speed Who else want's to place bets on what the 100mbps package's upload speed will be?
I'm thinking it won't break 4mbps. | |
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| rayePremium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Guess the upload speed These news releases are waste if they are still going to treat the Internet as a one-way, pre-21st century medium. These days I upload almost as much as I download. would rather they do 10/10, 20/20 and 30/30 as tiers instead of 100/4, 50/2. >10 Mbps becomes almost useless without upload.
If it is DOCSIS 3.0 I would think that 50/10 and 100/20 would be offered. | |
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| | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Guess the upload speed I'd bet on 100/10 or 100/15 and 50/5 or 50/10. Probably the former for 50 Mbps, the latter for 100. | |
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| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: LISCO146;s Acceptable Use Policy for Fiber It's hillarious to see how close their usage policy is to HughesNet's, albeit with MUCH higher speeds and MUCH higher caps.
Was looking at the packages offered and things appear to not be quite so bad as at first. 30GB extra is available for $10 extra. For another $25 you get 50GB extra. $80 more gets you another 200GB. $80 on top of that gets another 200GB, and $200 more gets you another 500GB, for 1TB total.
Put another way, your pricing per GB is similar to that of a maxed-out T1, but you have a 100Mbps pipe to pull the bits down by. Yes, 40¢ per GB is rather steep for fiber-based service, but it's better than $1 per GB. | |
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| | | | Re: LISCO146;s Acceptable Use Policy for Fiber It`s more than just steep. It`s outrageous. I don`t think you realize how much they`re ripping their customers off. | |
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| | Don't overpay! I downgraded my comcast internet service 6 months ago from the $42.00 4 m/b service to the basic $25.00 1 m/b. What you need to realize is that all web pages are capped at around 1 m/b load time, having a faster interent service isn't going to make them load any faster the max. I can also stream video and play online games without any noticable differences. Download speeds are slower, I now download at 100kb a sec, where at I was downloading at 300kb to 350kb before, but for the amount of downloading I do, it's not worth it to me to pay $15 more a month. Don't fall for all the hype, do youself a favor and don't spend more than you have to for service. | |
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