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Hi Andy,
You apparantly don't have cable in your
area. Not sure that there are any other
alternatives...
There is, but it's Comcast so it's horribly
expensive and we're not cable television
subscribers, so that would further add to
the monthly cost.
Not sure anyone's listening given that this
conversation took place six years ago. When my
Some of us keep areas online because you never know when a conversation is going to pick up <grin>. I'm guilty as you can no doubt tell.
ADSL service crapped out I did switch to Comcast
for around US$ 30/month (by that time we had also
switched to cable television from satellite). I
was with Comcast for a few years but just recently
there have been times when their "3M" service
would drop to around 50k downstream, which stops
some things working.
Ouch, that sounds painful.. :(
So here I am switching back to AT&T ($46+ehft)
because they're still the only other wired option.
They no longer offer ADSL service so I had to buy
Here in this part of NY, just 10 minutes from Ithaca, NY, the only show in town
is a cable connection with TWCable (the company that comcast recently bought <grin>... There was no other choice as far as we could tell... sick I thought at the time...
a VDSL modem/router. I was irritated that they
shipped me a used one but this evening I was able
to get it working. I think it says something about
how solid the Cable/Telco duopoly is that they're
still the only two wired options here.
Yes... insane... over here, when we moved in last year in March I think, Ron had to go to their office and pick up the tv boxes.. and they were used as well.. and one of them didn't work so he had to get another.. the modem at least worked though <g>. They did send guys here to install the modem. Of course the previous owner of the house had everything in place from HIS TWCable
connection <g>
Take care,
Janis
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