On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:24:55PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > I thought qworst's line charge was ~$30/month, then you add on ISP costs. > > ...and being that the lowest DSL ISP monthlies I've seen were $20/month, I > had added up that cable internet is cheaper... but I'm guessing that you're > too far our, in pleasant hill, for that...
Yes, it's cheaper. And the downlink is so much faster than DSL that it's barely in the same league. After a recent upgrade, Comcast users are reporting up to 3mbps downlinks for a price right between Qwest's 256/256 and 640/256 prices through efn. The uplink speed is now topping out around 225kbps for these upgraded areas, which is too bad. Somewhere the idea was floated not long ago of Comcast dropping to 128 uplinks to give the file sharers some pain, but that hasn't happened and was discussed long enough ago that I hope it may not. The situation is that you don't know for sure, and frankly I wouldn't dare do anything that someone might even think possibly bears any resemblence to what might be illegal or possibly just unfavorable to large media interests on Comcast. Their AUP is fscary--they can kill your account for any reason at just about any time. As far as I know, efn's AUP still does not contain anything of the sort, though former management did seek such a change. I don't watch things at efn closely enough anymore to know if the proposal left with the manager. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
