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2009-02-19 Thread rleesimon
overcame that with get right for years ...it would reconnect and redial and all that folderol !! ...still have it on my pootah ...but my browser fav ...opera ...has the built in including bittorrent client... -Original Message- From: Reid Katan [mailto:ka...@his.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [CGUYS] shrifted

2009-02-18 Thread Jeff Wright
$170 a month! They and you are out of your minds. That is just a crazy price. My FiOS is about $140/month with the 1 year teaser rate. That includes about $25 in taxes and is still less than I was paying for Comcast cable and Internet ($133 and going up constantly), phone ($42) and long

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2009-02-18 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Here is what I pay (for the services rendered, no options) Cable/Internet bundled it is 105 per month. This includes no premium channels, digital option, and 5MPS cable service. Phone service is 69.95 a month for unlimited usage. Tivo service 16.95 per month plus 9.95 for extra receiver.

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2009-02-18 Thread Eric S. Sande
Granted, the situation above is in a densely populated area, and service is slower outside the cities, but we should have comparable choices in our cities, subsidized or not, instead of just 10% of those speeds here. Is there a technical roadblock? There are several technical roadblocks,

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2009-02-17 Thread rleesimon
sole me basic limited net sposta be 768 and I am getting around 950-1100 but you can buy faster comcast speeds for more money ...having come from years of dialup, I am thrilled with what I have! however, the cable tv is poor and buggy despite the great price (free for basic for 1 year)... the

Re: [CGUYS] shrifted

2009-02-17 Thread rleesimon
visited my family in a little tiny town in the backwoods of belgium where I connected dialup to local isp and got extremely fast response even there ...also, 3g cell coverage is almost 100% so you can get that kind of service tethered ...at my brother-in-law's house 2 towns over, he has what they

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2009-02-17 Thread gerald
two towers cover the whole country. one in french, one in flemish At 01:48 PM 2/17/2009, you wrote: visited my family in a little tiny town in the backwoods of belgium where I connected dialup to local isp and got extremely fast response even there ...also, 3g cell coverage is almost 100% so you

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2009-02-17 Thread gerald
read about the experiences of prince william county va. they got rid of all them illegals. they also have no factories. we have fios here where i live. comcast cable was more reliable and same smoke for same dollars. fios was down for 4 hrs today. just came back up at 130pm. hasn't been

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2009-02-17 Thread gerald
my fios basic internet(which is very fast when working), 2 basic telephones, and tv(have to pay for hd) is around $170 now that the promo has worn off. tv and phone are rock solid. verizon is still learning how to stay connected to the internet. hope you don't want to do something at noon

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2009-02-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
my fios basic internet... is around $170 $170 a month! They and you are out of your minds. That is just a crazy price. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a

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2009-02-17 Thread katan
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:48:45 -0500, rleesimon wrote: sole me basic limited net sposta be 768 and I am getting around 950-1100 but you can buy faster comcast speeds for more money ...having come from years of dialup, I am thrilled with what I have! however, the cable tv is poor and buggy despite

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2009-02-17 Thread gerald
i'm a senior citizen, maybe they screwed me. that 99.95 rate only lasts til the sun goes down. you got a friend that can get me a better rate? or 24 hr service? At 03:00 PM 2/17/2009, you wrote: my fios basic internet... is around $170 $170 a month! They and you are out of your minds. That

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2009-02-17 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: my fios basic internet... is around $170 $170 a month! They and you are out of your minds. That is just a crazy price. That is Phone/TV/Internet all bundled together. I broke $200 when I threw in my cell phone. Just remember

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2009-02-17 Thread b_s-wilk
rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com escribió: visited my family in a little tiny town in the backwoods of belgium where I connected dialup to local isp and got extremely fast response even there ...also, 3g cell coverage is almost 100% so you can get that kind of service tethered ...at my

Re: [CGUYS] shrifted

2009-02-16 Thread rleesimon
wanna know what shrifted is? well, I live 5 minutes outside the county seat ...inna good wind, I can spit into the city limits ...the city is one of the poorest with lotsa illegals and public assistance residents with little or no actual economic base since the factory closed 15+ years back

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2009-02-16 Thread mike
Cable here is 20+mbit...what speed are you talking about for yours? BTW, when docsis 3 comes out it's supposed to go upwards of 50 I believe. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote: wanna know what shrifted is? well, I live 5 minutes outside the county seat

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2009-02-16 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Around here we can only get 15Mps at the most, but even with that speed we only can achieve half that if we are lucky. But if we choose that speed the cost is about $75 a month. Only game in town, local phone company cannot offer higher than 1.5 mps. We also cannot get local VOIP or DVR with