Dean: You've GOT to be kidding!!!!!!
I can get T1 here at home now. The setup/install fee is comparable to yours, but the catch is, the service costs $289.95 a MONTH!!!!!!!!!!! DSL isn't quite ready for prime time here in Morgan County, Indiana, but it's supposed to be rocking in January, 2003. I know the phone company has been maniacally laying fiber optic cable all over the place for the last two years. I'm hoping it will cause our cable company to have coniption fits. Cable modem here is $50/month ($60/month if you rent their cable modem -- which means they can shove that part of the deal. I'll just go to Best Buy and buy a Motorola model for $79!) I suspect that DSL will be priced about like the Cable company. I'd like to hear the pros and cons of each. I'd like to lean toward cable myself, because I simply don't see that many people in my immediate area subscribing to the service, and thereby sucking up the available bandwidth. Connie and I live in a nice, conservative neighborhood with a disproportionately high number of older people who have never even shaken hands with a mouse! On the other hand, we live exactly 1.76 miles from the nearest phone company relay station. Is it six of one and half-dozen of the other in our case??? Allen ----- Dean Arthur wrote: > > Wait til T1 shows up in your area. We have it via RF link to > houses/businesses here in Star Valley on west side of Wyoming. 25x > faster than 53K modem and 6x faster than DSL with [to date - 6 months > after installation - no problems] for install fee of 450.00 and monthly > cost of 25.00 - what I was paying ISP for unlimited 53K connection.o -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
