I sure like my 4 Mbit/sec cable, but I still have a 56 K
dial up as a backup, for $75 a year from the local college.
That's one reason I didn't want the cable telephone service,
I like redundant services in airplanes and on the ground.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
Merry Christmas
Have a Safe and Happy New Year
Live Long and Prosper
Jim Macklin
"Peter R." wrote in message
...
| George Patterson wrote:
|
| "Cheap" broadband costs twice what dial-up does. In
addition, rural telcom
| networks usually can't handle DSL and those same areas
are likely to be outside
| the cable service areas. That leaves satellite, which
has it's own set of
| problems (including the cost).
|
| Verizon DSL just dropped their ~760 KB/sec download speed
to $14.95/month.
| For those dial-up customers, including the fake MW out of
the Virginia/DC
| metro area, who live in a DSL-served area, there is now no
excuse to remain
| with dial up.
|
| Verizon FiOS (fiber optic broadband, to which I just
started subscribing)
| is being rolled out nationwide. When it is complete,
expect to see cable
| broadband come down to remain competitive, since they
really cannot raise
| download speeds tremendously to compete. There was also a
rumor that
| Verizon FiOS will offer a 1 MB/s download speed for
$9.99/month to grab
| local dial-up customers.
|
| Yes, I am aware that there are many out in the boonies
that will never see
| cable, DSL, or fiber broadband. My original comments
were actually meant
| as a dig only to the fake MW who thought he was being
totally anonymous,
| but I see that I could have worded it a little better.
|
|
| --
| Peter