> Okay, looks like I'll be sticking with cable internet. Thanks to Matthew and > Cory for setting me straight.
Good decision not to depend entirely on 4G cellular. It's not quite ready for that amount of load and it is much more expensive. When we moved last Fall, we cancelled cable and land-line telephone service entirely. ATT offers an "aDSL only" service option in this area with a 6Mbps up/down rate, the promotional rate is $20/month for the first year going to $43 after that. We outfit the condo with two Skype phones and bought a monthly service package from Skype ($6) that includes a land-line DIN number and unlimited calling to land-line DINs in the United States. On top of that, I have Netflix for $11 per month that gives me unlimited streaming and one DVD at a time access. The television is connected to the internet via an AppleTV 2 (lots of free content via Podcast and YouTube plus Netflix plus rent-on-demand or stream from the computers and iPad). For local news, we fitted a digital antenna. The ATT line drops into a wireless Apple Extreme base station (802.11b/g/n) which can keep up nicely with the television flow, three lap/desktop computers, two iPads, one iPod Touch. There are only rarely any contention issues. Our monthly comm costs, outside of our personal cell phones (no-contract, monthly pay as you go for each of us on unlocked quad-band GSM handsets I bought for $50 apiece), went from $230 month to about $40 with a huge improvement in service speed. We get 93-96% of the signed for 6Mbps data rate for real use. It simply is a lot more effective benefit over cost than anything else I've researched. I don't know whether an aDSL only service is available in your area but if there is you should check into it. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
