Offering these high speeds at a high price is the first step in catching up with other parts of the world. Bad for those that compete with Comcast and Cablevision, but good for the consumer.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > Travis Johnson wrote: >> Just want to point out a couple things... >> >> "up to 50 Mbps" means anywhere from 0 to 50... and >> >> The local cable company has automatic throttling even on downloads. One >> customer said he was downloading a video driver (150MB file) and it >> started at 3Mbps and by the end was down to 256k. His connection stayed >> at 256k for about another 2 hours. They are capping people even when >> they say "up to xx" speeds. >> >> Travis >> Microserv > > I don't have any resi or even small business customers that want to pay > 150.00 per month for their internet. > > Noticed though that cablevision is doing 30 right now for 65.00 per > month. Thats hard to beat from a consumers point of view. > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
