They say markets abhor vacuums. I took a trip up to NYC yesterday and saw
first hand how lots of money can be made by filling voids. This broadband
problem looks like another such voids. Especially now when so many
skilled people are losing jobs -- including telco workers -- the skills
are
The problem here is the void -- there aren't enough people in it. And
simply distance.
Suggesting that neighbors get together will be unsuccessful or worse. If
there's only one broadband customer on the block (because they're
sharing it with everyone else) then there's no incentive for the
Suggesting that neighbors get together will be unsuccessful or worse. If
there's only one broadband customer on the block (because they're
sharing it with everyone else) then there's no incentive for the
companies to extend the service.
That's the idea. They got preempted. Somebody else got
At 11:02 PM 12/23/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
This is all part of a liberal plot to get everyone to move into the cities
from the country and leave the country to wilderness.
People clinging to guns and religion because they can't get good WiFi?
By George, I think you've got it!
Fred Holmes
Get friendly with a neighbor not too far away who has cable ...make a deal
with them to share the internet connection and cost ...put it in writing as
a little contract in case you shoot their dog or something ...what you are
doing is getting a wifi router and hooking into their cable ...if their
I was thinking about doing something similiar with my parents...buying a
slingbox, paying to upgrade their speed on their internet and watching tv
from their house to mine.
Mike
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:07 AM, RLeeSimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote:
Get friendly with a neighbor not too far away
On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
This is all part of a liberal plot to get everyone to move into the
cities from the country and leave the country to wilderness.
I am looking at a place to move to out in the country. No cable or
DSL is available at the location I am
Don't give up hope. I live in the country and our house is over a
quarter of a mile off the road. For a long time I thought that I could
only get dial-up, then we were finally able to get DSL. Lately my wife
has been talking to the local cable provider (Time-Warner) and they said
that they
Our church uses Centurytel for it's ISP. One of only two High Speed
options available to us.
Opened out bill and notice a notice that the terms of our usage have changed.
Checked out the usage agreement on line (was not enclosed)
Note the limits:
F.Storage Availability. Certain Services
It all looks like boilerplate to me. When a host suspends an account,
it's all held hostage to their whim. More likely, you'll lose the
files due to a technical glitch or hack attack.
5mb limit is antiquated by the low prices of hard drives these days.
5gb would be a starting point, but some
I do not use them for storage at all. But note the limit of 5GB of
downloads a month!
Quite low.
Stewart
At 11:25 AM 12/23/2008, you wrote:
It all looks like boilerplate to me. When a host suspends an account,
it's all held hostage to their whim. More likely, you'll lose the
files due to a
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I do not use them for storage at all. But note the limit of 5GB of
downloads a month!
Quite low.
I read that as a limitation on Newsgroups:
Clearly they don't want anyone using binary newsgroups.
--
Yes but what if you buy outside access?
It clearly is ambiguously written that they could come to you and say
you have contravened our download limits and we are hereby suspending
your services or slapping on a excess usage charge.
Many companies have simply dropped their usenet access. I
I see now that we really are being taken to the cleaners by these
companies who claim no responsibility but to tell us what we can and
cannot do and change agreements at will.
First thing to underscore is that Centurytel should be used for internet
connection only -- not for any other service.
I am not sure you noticed my first comment. We only have two choices
for ISP in our area. Centurytel or Charter.
We had Charter. Their cost for the bottom level of service is
unacceptable. We went with Centurytel as the only other alternative
and we are on the base level of service with
At 08:36 PM 12/23/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
In many areas of the country you are very limited on your alternatives (if you
have any) one of my members lives in town, and must use satellite for ISP as
neither the Cable nor phone company can provide her service.
That is the norm in
I am not sure you noticed my first comment. We only have two choices
for ISP in our area. Centurytel or Charter.
Then why not focus on the first part of my post and ignore the part that
does not apply to you?
I would have been neglectful to not point out that two marginal providers
can be
For non-profits it is uneconomical.
We have to pay the same commercial rates for profit businesses pay.
That means we would end up paying about $100 per month for
unacceptable service. (Bridging the two is easy to do, but just does
not make sense.)
I focus on the whole email, not just
For non-profits it is uneconomical.
We have to pay the same commercial rates for profit businesses pay.
That means we would end up paying about $100 per month for
unacceptable service. (Bridging the two is easy to do, but just does
not make sense.)
Maybe you should watch the fish at cguys.org
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