Yes, if you look at the speed vs. price. Last time I checked T1 prices in New Orleans area, you can not find anything for under $400, and I believe those companies might not even operate here anymore....
But what is a real highway robbery, is the pricing for ISDN. We just got couple of them set up in the Film studio. For some weird reason hollywood is still using ISDN for remote monitoring of a ADR sessions (Automated dialogue replacement / post-sync). If I remember correctly it is $250/mo/line (dual 64kbps) then $0.08/minute for long distance / channel. One would think film industry would have figured out how to utilize internet speeds for monitoring and even recording voice remotely, but nope.... Must have obsoleted ISDN technology with extremely expensive encoder/decoder hardware on both sides. Petri Andrew Baudouin wrote: > No less than 250 a month... ;) for 1.544 mbps that's highway robbery > IMO. I know you can now have your own exchange basically, but still.... > > I really do like my 12M/768K for 41.95 :) Who really needs to run an > email server? > > On 10/23/07, *Tim Fournet* <tfournet at tfour.net > <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net>> wrote: > > either you're too far from the CO, or the neighborhood is full of > fiber, > which kills DSL. What price did they quote you on T1 (if you don't > mind > me asking)? > > mat branyon wrote: > > Sadly, I just got off the phone with them... > > > > They don't offer adsl where at the house I am buying, but they > did try > > to sell me a t1 line... stating that some people use it for > gaming... > > > > so my high opinions of them dropped a bit. > > > > On 10/22/07, *Tim Fournet* <tfournet at tfour.net > <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net> > > <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net>>> wrote: > > > > Speakeasy is available in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, > but > > that's > > about it. I was actually in VoIP training with Speakeasy in > Dallas > > last > > week when that story broke, and the Speakeasy managers there > were > > laughing about what Comcast is doing. Speakeasy does not block, > > filter, > > or throttle any incoming our outgoing ports on their > network. The one > > thing that they do is to give voice packets priority on > their MPLS > > network, but they have so much bandwidth in their backbone that > > nobody > > would even notice. Every account also comes with static IPs, > and even > > shell accounts. > > > > If you have them as a choice, it's definitely worth the > extra dollars. > > Their support is excellent, and they support "alternative" > operating > > sytems. > > > > mat branyon wrote: > > > I just moved to Denver a couple of months ago. Comcast is > our > > ISP up > > > here, and I can verify that our service is horrible (roommate > > > downloads a lot through bittorrent). > > > > > > I'll be moving into a new house in the next couple weeks, > and there > > > will be no Comcast. There will be no Qwest either. There > will be > > > DirectTV, and for internet, Speakeasy (they even have an > option > > where > > > you don't have to have a phone line). Speakeasy runs > about the > > price > > > of business DSL, but in their TOS they specify that > nothing will be > > > blocked. You are guaranteed nothing but the bandwidth you > > purchase. > > > They also give static IP addresses. > > > > > > > > > Last I checked, Speakeasy wasn't available in Louisiana > (that was a > > > few years ago though) > > > > > > --mat > > > > > > On 10/19/07, *B. Estrade* < estrabd at gmail.com > <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com> > > <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com>> > > > <mailto: estrabd at gmail.com <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com> > <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com>>>> wrote: > > > > > > Some of you might get excited about this: > > > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/ > > > > > > Brett > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > <mailto:General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net>> > > <mailto: General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > <mailto:General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net>>> > > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > <http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net> > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > <mailto:General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net>> > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > <http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> <mailto: > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net>> > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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