In corvallis, there is a wireless company Alyrica which is in the nominal $45/month range.
So some locations have things that have broken the $50/month barrier for dsl , cable and wireless. Linux Rocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % On Saturday 11 December 2004 02:48 pm, John Sechrest wrote: % : There are bunches of ISP's that are able to resell Qwest % : services, so you never need to deal with Qwest. You get the % : reliability and stability of DSL with a user support group % : which has nothing to do with Qwest. % : % : I recommend this, since this is the only local alternative. % : local ISP's are blocked from reselling comcast. % : % : If you want to support the local ISP that has broad band, DSL % : is the one path. % : % : Unless you live in an area that has a wireless ISP service. % % There is wireless (wifi), and there is also satelite for broadband internet, % however both were prohibitivly expensive for home use. I havnt checked in a % couple years however. % % Jamie % % % : % : % : % : perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % : % : % That's cool. I'll go with Comcast even if it's slightly slower % : % upspeed, just because I dislike Qwest so much. % : % % : % /per % : % % : % % : % On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:40:37 -0800 (PST), Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> % : wrote: % > Inside scoop... Comcast is going to 4Mbps down, 384K up in % : % > January. The "pro/family" plan for $10 more is going to 5 down % : % > and 768k up. At the same time, no low cost slower plan will be % : % > introduced which we've only mentioned they need 20,000 times % : % > over to win even more customers. % : % > % : % > That be all, % : % > Mr O. % : % > % : % > --- perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % : % > % : % > > For day-to-day and uploading, I find that my Qwest 1.5dn/896up % : % > > DSL is % : % > > faster than my "3mbps" Comcast internet service was. I assume % : % > > this % : % > > probably has to do with the greater uplink bandwidth for all % : % > > that % : % > > ACKing. If we're talking raw download speeding for large % : % > > files, % : % > > though, Comcast clearly wins. In addition, their customer % : % > > support is % : % > > lightyears better than Qwest's. % : % > > % : % > > /per % : % > % : % > % : % > __________________________________ % : % > Do you Yahoo!? % : % > The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? % : % > http://my.yahoo.com % : % > _______________________________________________ % : % > EUGLUG mailing list % : % > [EMAIL PROTECTED] % : % > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug % : % > % : % _______________________________________________ % : % EUGLUG mailing list % : % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % : % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug % : % : ----- % : John Sechrest . Helping people use % : . computers and the Internet % : . more effectively % : . % : . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % : . % : . % : http://www.peak.org/~sechrest % : _______________________________________________ % : EUGLUG mailing list % : [EMAIL PROTECTED] % : http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug % % -- % Besides, its really not worthwhile to use more than two times your physical % ram in swap (except in a select few situations). The performance of the system % becomes so abysmal you'd rather heat pins under your toenails while reciting % Windows95 source code and staring at porn flicks of Bob Dole than actually try % to type something. % -- seen on c.o.l.development.system, about the size of the swap space % % _______________________________________________ % EUGLUG mailing list % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
