Ben, I rethought my reply. They are charging an additional $50.00 OVER the charge the customer is now paying for the 20 meg service, which when I look on my bill is $10.00 per month. The mailings they continued to send said this was an "offer" for those that already had the 20 meg service. I didn't get a card at my office where I only have the 10 meg.
So my total bill for internet service will be $60.00. John On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:30 PM, John Robinson wrote: > Ben, > > Right now they are running a "special" for $50.00 per month but after that it > will be $60.00 a month, according to the rep. I talked to. Could be it will > never be more than the 50.00. One additional note, the iPhone performed much > better with downloads not much better than before, say around 13.5, BUT the > iPhone upload was over 5.0, just like the computers. Prior the upload on the > iPhone was in the 1.5 range if I remember right. > > John > > > On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: > >> Would you mind telling us what the 50 meg service costs?-Ben Zion Hershberg >> On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, John Robinson wrote: >> >>> Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this >>> fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered >>> me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really >>> be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed >>> close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the >>> higher speed? >>> >>> Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the >>> Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and >>> videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together >>> in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was >>> 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. >>> >>> I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that >>> Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I >>> could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting >>> was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy >>> still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only >>> going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the >>> 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be >>> able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached >>> the 50 max. >>> >>> Hmmmmm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase >>> their upload speeds. >>> >>> He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 >>> meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber >>> to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't >>> an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they >>> will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that >>> uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple >>> is ready for this one when it gets here. >>> >>> He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads >>> (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he >>> said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. >>> >>> I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at >>> 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice >>> a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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