50 Mbps to the home for $49/month

[Juddog]

Damn I wish I lived in this town:
Monticello

In my area the local cable company basically sucked in terms of throughput and service, until FIOS came to town and all of a sudden they upgraded everybody's connections for free. Just another example of how competition is good for the consumer.

 

[BAMAVOO]

I hear you. My choices are AT&T (Bellsouth) 6meg DSL @ $45 a month or Charter 20meg @ $80 a month ($10 more if you don't use their TV or phone service)

 

[Anubis]

i wish i could get more then 8 for 60$ a month

 

[QuantumPion]

docsis 3.0 & 100 mbps powerburst ftw.

 

[ScottyB]

I get 10 for $0 a month.

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
I get 10 for $0 a month.

How?

 

[Unmoosical]

7 meg for 48 a month. :/

I too would rather pay 50 for 50.

 

[frodrick]

They just rolled it out our muni-fiber so hopefully prices will improve in the future:
15/15 57.99
20/20 69.99
50/50 174.99

 

[Aharami]

If your town is really unlucky, the incumbent will just head right to the state legislature, seeking to pass laws constraining the practice. That's what happened to Wilson, North Carolina, which runs a moderately famous 100Mbps system known as Greenlight (which just happens to be the fastest ISP in the entire state).

When Time Warner Cable (which still tops out at 10Mbps and no DOCSIS 3.0) was asked why it had not stepped up to meet the city's demand for faster access, a company rep told TechJournal South that it hadn't actually heard a citizen outcry over the issue?or it would have acted.

Wilson's Internet manager is having none of it. "We don?t want to run anyone out of business," he said, "but we also don?t want to take the leftover table scraps. If they had offered us what we were asking for, next generation good service, we would have happily stepped aside."

i wish my town could get something like this. Comcast has really been crappy lately. I usually get 10mbps but lately, Im barely topping 5mbps....sometimes going as low as 1mbps

 

[KMFJD]

I wish i could get faster than 1mb for 60$

 

[SunSamurai]

Im on dialup, so you call all eat a dick.

 

[Spineshank]

I get 50 for 42.95

 

[bruceb]

In my home town, Wayne, NJ I can get Verizon DSL, but only at 1.7MBS since I am at the end of the distance limit from the central office for DSL to be any faster. Cablevision has thier Optimum On Line, but I don't want to pay their higher (almost $50 after the first year) prices. And some of my email addresses, like at Verizon.net would need to change along with the router. Verizon has not yet offered FIOS in my area and I don't know if I would want their TV service (it is nice though) with the requirement for a 2 year contract. But their higher internet speed might be nice.

 

[Insomniator]

Who cares now that torrents are basically gone? What websites allow you to download anywhere near your max speed?

I haven't had latency in any video game since my 384 DSL days...

 

[JDub02]

20 through FIOS for $60.

much better than the 3 meg DSL for $35 that i had.

 

[Miramonti]

40/5 for $100 available, altho only took 20/5 for $50.

Lesson learned, if you want your telco to offer ridiculously fast speeds, get your town/city to start building a fios network themselves...

 

[her209]

Wow. Amazing. I read an article just the other day about the lawsuit against the city of Monticello by the local telco company when the city tried to build the fiber optic network themselves when the telco refused to do so because it wasn't profitable to them.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/af.../06/17/afx6556443.html
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...-appeals-court-win.ars

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: Insomniator
Who cares now that torrents are basically gone? What websites allow you to download anywhere near your max speed?

I haven't had latency in any video game since my 384 DSL days...

Retard post of the day award goes to you.

 

[frodrick]

Originally posted by: her209
Wow. Amazing. I read an article just the other day about the lawsuit against the city of Monticello by the local telco company when the city tried to build the fiber optic network themselves when the telco refused to do so because it wasn't profitable to them.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/af.../06/17/afx6556443.html
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...-appeals-court-win.ars

Comcast did the same thing here to (unsuccessfully) try to stop the city from deploying its own fiber
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_113785.asp

 

[Mojoed]

You guys don't know how good you've got it.

1.5/768 here and it's nearly $70 per month.

 

[FoBoT]

i am lucky i have dsl at all

but maybe someday it'll get faster

 

[frostedflakes]

I had sort of kept up with the drama in Monticello, but I didn't realize that TDS was building their own fiber network. Makes things pretty interesting, as the article points out, the city's feasibility study didn't consider that they'd have to compete with another FTTH provider. Could really throw a wrench in their plans. Maybe TDS is hoping to force the city to sell off their network.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: Juddog
Damn I wish I lived in this town:
Monticello

In my area the local cable company basically sucked in terms of throughput and service, until FIOS came to town and all of a sudden they upgraded everybody's connections for free. Just another example of how competition is good for the consumer.

No, you wish you had 50Mb internet. You don't want to live in Monticello.

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Juddog
Damn I wish I lived in this town:
Monticello

In my area the local cable company basically sucked in terms of throughput and service, until FIOS came to town and all of a sudden they upgraded everybody's connections for free. Just another example of how competition is good for the consumer.

No, you wish you had 50Mb internet. You don't want to live in Monticello.

Bah can't be much worse than WNY.

 

[Modelworks]

http://www.ionary.com/separationbillproposal.htm


The FCC decides on it in just a couple weeks.
Want to bet the big money corporations win out ?



key points

PART II. Separation.

Every Subject ILEC operating within the State shall be separated into two entities, the Facilities Entity and the Services Entity. Ownership of the Subject telecommunications plant shall be assigned to the Facilities Entity.

A Facilities Entity shall be created for the purpose of owning and operating subject telecommunications plant on a wholesale basis.

The Facilities Entity shall be subject to rate-of-return regulation. The Commission shall determine a fair rate of return based upon Public Utility law. Expenditures of the Facilities Entity shall be subject to supervision of the Public Regulatory Commission, to ensure a proper balance between plant modernization and high-quality operation and a fair cost to the ratepayer.

The Facilities Entity is permanently enjoined against providing telecommunications services or information services to retail customers. It may self-provision these services for its own administrative use, or for incidental purposes, but shall not engage in direct competition with its customers.


The Facilities Entity shall not engage in any pricing of its facilities based upon the nature of the payload transmitted across its facilities. It may not discriminate based upon the content, protocol, or type of service provided by its wholesale customers, nor may it monitor the transmissions more than required for maintenance and service observation purposes.