Maybe it was Pioneer co-op: http://www.pioneer.net/internet/internet.html or Peak DSL on a Pioneer line: http://www.peak.org/homesolutions/broadband/pricing.shtml
I found http://www.casco.net/communications/ and http://www.blachlylane.coop/ which are also pertinent :) ~ben On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:43 PM, dooger watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Barrett wrote: > > > I agree completely, and I'd love to see our uplink market get far more > > competetive. I'd love to be paying 1/3 of what I pay now, for 10x the > > service (or better). However, in our system the market dictates what is > > "realistic". > > > > The astounding thing to me is how many of my friends willingly throw > bomcast over a hundred bux a month and still put up with throttled service. > > A public so willing to be ripped off this way is worse than lambs to the > slaughter. > > It's the essence of the expression "disposable capital"--and it's why > bomcast must laugh all the way to the bank. > > What else can we do, to pressure the service providers? > > > > Where's the Cliff Cox of the 21st century? As mentioned earlier in this > thread, I think there's a rural (Blachly anyway) isp that's cheaper and > faster than bomcast; some kind of NW Lane co-op. > > Whatever happened to our Eugene free-wifi mesh? ;) > > > > As if their monopoly tactics weren't bad enough the bomcast ceo looks like > a shaved buffalo and routinely gives dubya 100's of thousands.
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