Good news! Comcast is willing to extend their lines the 1.22 miles to get me cable internet!

[PingSpike]

All I have to do is sign up for a 2 year contract and pay $23,012 and they'll take $45/mo so I can download all the porn I want! Yeah!

That $80/mo for an ISDN line seems a lot more reasonable.

Actually, if I get 12 other people to agree to 2 year service contracts that live between me and the line plant it would be free. I drove down the road today and counted 11 houses between me and where I think the cable ends, that weren't on their own private roads.

 

[KillerCharlie]

23k?

 

[mugs]

Sign up for 13 accounts yourself. That'd only be $14040 for the 2 years. Hot deal!

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
All I have to do is sign up for a 2 year contract and pay $23,012 and they'll take $45/mo so I can download all the porn I want! Yeah!

That $80/mo for an ISDN line seems a lot more reasonable.

Actually, if I get 12 other people to agree to 2 year service contracts that live between me and the line plant it would be free. I drove down the road today and counted 11 houses between me and where I think the cable ends, that weren't on their own private roads.

That's a hell of a lot of work just to get Comcast internet access, which probably has the worst customer satisfaction scores in the business. I can practically guarantee that they're going to throttle your porn downloading speed pretty quickly as well

Hell... For that price, you lease your own fractional T1 line for a few years! You might even be able to recover some of those costs by reselling some of that bandwidth to your neighbors.

 

[axelfox]

Are you talking about THE 1.22 miles????

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
23k?

x2

wait, what? This makes no sense at all, you have to pay 23k? You're going to have to explain a bit more...

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Internet access at residential homes is dirt cheap, don't complain. It's oversold to hell, but it's not any different at the datacenter level. I'm not sure what my point is, but end consumers really don't have to pay much at all for what they get.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
23k?

x2

wait, what? This makes no sense at all, you have to pay 23k? You're going to have to explain a bit more...

There are no cable lines running to his house. He lives in a place where running the cables is not profitable to the cable company (yes, these places still exist in the US :Q). If he wants cable, he has to foot the bill.

 

[Aimster]

call your county official and bitch about comcast.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Internet access at residential homes is dirt cheap, don't complain. It's oversold to hell, but it's not any different at the datacenter level. I'm not sure what my point is, but end consumers really don't have to pay much at all for what they get.

No, it's just that datacenters get away with charging more than the cost of a human life per TB of bandwidth.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Aimster
call your county official and bitch about comcast.

What good would that do?

 

[Sqube]

Umm... I think you're highly overrating the "honor" of using Comcast cable. You should ask the people at the tail-end who are getting service what they think. Focus on customer service (or the disgusting lack thereof).

Think about the agony when your connection goes down, and the fact that you will not be able to find anyone on the phone who can help you.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
23k?

x2

wait, what? This makes no sense at all, you have to pay 23k? You're going to have to explain a bit more...

There are no cable lines running to his house. He lives in a place where running the cables is not profitable to the cable company (yes, these places still exist in the US :Q). If he wants cable, he has to foot the bill.

I'm not surprised by the cost, I'm surprised by the fact he's willing to pay it. Yes, I am familiar with these kinds of places in the US... my parents live far, far away from anywhere that has cable.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
23k?

x2

wait, what? This makes no sense at all, you have to pay 23k? You're going to have to explain a bit more...

There are no cable lines running to his house. He lives in a place where running the cables is not profitable to the cable company (yes, these places still exist in the US :Q). If he wants cable, he has to foot the bill.

I'm not surprised by the cost, I'm surprised by the fact he's willing to pay it.

I think he was being sarcastic.

 

[PingSpike]

I am currently posting from a dialup connection. I don't think you understand the hell that I must endure. I am somewhere around 23,000FT from the verizon CO.

Whats kind of ironic is my next door neighbor is a comcast onsite repair guy.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
23k?

x2

wait, what? This makes no sense at all, you have to pay 23k? You're going to have to explain a bit more...

There are no cable lines running to his house. He lives in a place where running the cables is not profitable to the cable company (yes, these places still exist in the US :Q). If he wants cable, he has to foot the bill.

I'm not surprised by the cost, I'm surprised by the fact he's willing to pay it.

I think he was being sarcastic.

Oh course I was! As was correctly pointed out...I could probably get a T1 for less.

The silver lining though is my town just signed an agreement to lay fiber throughout as a public utility. To early to tell if it'll amount to anything, but it sounds promising. But thats probably at least 2 years away!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Internet access at residential homes is dirt cheap, don't complain. It's oversold to hell, but it's not any different at the datacenter level. I'm not sure what my point is, but end consumers really don't have to pay much at all for what they get.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call a one time startup fee of 23 thousand dollars "not much at all"!

Seriously, I might get ISDN but its just into the realm of expensive enough that I really don't want to pay it...but cheap enough I'm actually considering it.

80/mo line fee, 21/mo unlimited (I think) 10-20 ISP...probably a bunch of BS fees too.

 

[drpootums]

I'm on dial-up right now (live about 3 miles from where service ends for DSL or cable). I know it sucks, but you gotta learn to live with it.

 

[vailr]

Find someone currently using Comcast closest to you, preferably with a good line-of-sight.
Check Yahoo or Google satellite maps for best chance of success.
Better if there's no road traffic, vegetation, etc. that could interfere in between them and you.
Offer to pay for them to share their Comcast internet service, by installing a WiFi router with an upgraded directional antenna pointed towards your location.
May require a series of 2 or 3 in-between WiFi routers, which might tend to slow down your connection.
Some broadband providers actually encourage sharing via WiFi; Speakeasy DSL being one example.

 

[Imdmn04]

Don't live in bumfuck america, then you won't have this problem.

 

[skyking]

At work, crapcast wanted $1900 to bring cable into the building, from a <gasp> huge distance of 250 feet. They truly suck.

 

[Colt45]

buy a mile of RG6 ftw?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Internet access at residential homes is dirt cheap, don't complain. It's oversold to hell, but it's not any different at the datacenter level. I'm not sure what my point is, but end consumers really don't have to pay much at all for what they get.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call a one time startup fee of 23 thousand dollars "not much at all"!

Seriously, I might get ISDN but its just into the realm of expensive enough that I really don't want to pay it...but cheap enough I'm actually considering it.

80/mo line fee, 21/mo unlimited (I think) 10-20 ISP...probably a bunch of BS fees too.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Internet access at residential homes is dirt cheap, don't complain. It's oversold to hell, but it's not any different at the datacenter level. I'm not sure what my point is, but end consumers really don't have to pay much at all for what they get.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call a one time startup fee of 23 thousand dollars "not much at all"!

Seriously, I might get ISDN but its just into the realm of expensive enough that I really don't want to pay it...but cheap enough I'm actually considering it.

80/mo line fee, 21/mo unlimited (I think) 10-20 ISP...probably a bunch of BS fees too.

Why in God's name would you pay that for ISDN when you could pay less and get satellite internet? My parents have WildBlue, and it is not bad at all, and is way way way faster than ISDN. It gets DSL speeds (1.5-2.0 meg).

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
All I have to do is sign up for a 2 year contract and pay $23,012 and they'll take $45/mo so I can download all the porn I want! Yeah!

That $80/mo for an ISDN line seems a lot more reasonable.

Actually, if I get 12 other people to agree to 2 year service contracts that live between me and the line plant it would be free. I drove down the road today and counted 11 houses between me and where I think the cable ends, that weren't on their own private roads.

Paying for 12 people's service would only be $12,960 over the course of two years... lol