robl27
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Mary Esther, FL
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How about offering service that will bring TRUE compeition to cable? I read their homepage and they claim to have fiber.
Also, heard that CLINK is capped upspeed @ 384 on all tiers
how about offering 10/10 for $39.95 a month? or 20/5?? We need more FIOS like products to bring stiffer competition across the board. and folks in Vegas are pissed because Cox there hasn't upgraded due to lack of reason.
I'm done for now and got vonage, Cox HSI, and Cox Cable until I see CLINK offer REAL cable tv (not satellite) which will hopefully come soon and FIOS like speeds here in the Ft Walton Beach area.
Comon guys make Cox piss in their pants!!
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Go Tarheels
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Nashville, NC
2 edits | Hey Porche
How about a 911 Turbo for $1000
Make ferrari piss in their pants... |
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ydoucare
join:2003-03-12
Rensselaer, IN | reply to robl27
Hey Apple, how about a Macbook for $50. Make Dell piss in their pants. |
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Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | reply to robl27
This thread made my day.  |
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Thunderstruc
join:2009-10-15
Carlisle, PA | reply to robl27
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That's all I have to say. |
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phdeez
join:2003-06-05
Winter Park, FL | reply to robl27
Yes, in Fort Walton Beach, where the customer density is high. However, there is Lightcore near there... map |
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TScheisskopf
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Belvidere, NJ
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said by Go Tarheels  :Hey Porche How about a 911 Turbo for $1000 Make ferrari piss in their pants... But they still wouldn't be able to login to the portal. But they wouldn't be able to login faster. 
Ghod, I want to kick Ballmer in the goolies... |
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Time
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join:2003-07-05
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I don't know about those prices, but Vegas could use some love.
And not the "bonded ADSL" love that CenturyTel had planned, either. I'm going to be brutally honest when I say that DSL coverage is piss poor in this town considering it is Embarq's (or now CenturyLink) largest and most profitable market. Yes, I know, some of you can get 10 Mbps DSL, but the majority of us are incapable of anything higher than 1.5 Mbps. Cox doesn't even have to break a sweat to compete, as it currently stands.
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Golden, CO
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Bonded DSL can be a decent service... 2 Mbps up, up to 30 Mbps down (see Sonic.net). There's also a much larger probability of anyone geting it vs. fiber.
That said, I think CTel has IPTV and 20/2 fiber in some markets. Which could also be done over bonded ADSL2+. Yes, fiber is better. It's also more expensive.
Trust me, I'd like better service from the telco in my area as well. I'm right outside Denver (AFAIK Qwest's largest market, though that might be Phoenix). ADSL only...real-world speeds top out at ~6 Mbps down and ~715 kbps up...if you're close enough to the DSLAM. Qwest has VDSL2 in some areas but not ours. As such, I'm using Comcast.
Unfortunately, fiber is:
A) Expensive to the home
B) The only way to get uploads over 2 Mbps over decent distances
So telcos have a big jump to make if they're on copper right now. Look for ADSL2+ line bonding as a stopgap measure, probably with IPTV. Then there will be an upgrade later on with fiber.
Also, for the record CenTel's speeds top out at 768 kbps up on DSL. Not as bad as 384k, though not amazing either. |
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gatorkram
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I don't care if they have to run 12 phone lines into my place, just give me fiber speeds, and the fiber prices.
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kustomjs
join:2006-12-12
Coldwater, OH | reply to robl27
trust me I have FTTH in coldwater,ohio and my speeds are only 5mb down and 3/4 upload and I still think it slow. You guys are lucky that your on dsl that can get higher 5mb download. |
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gatorkram
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| said by kustomjs :trust me I have FTTH in coldwater,ohio and my speeds are only 5mb down and 3/4 upload and I still think it slow. You guys are lucky that your on dsl that can get higher 5mb download. Sounds more like a provider issue, than a fiber issue.
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w4ncr
join:2000-10-27 | A while back when copper was being stolen must have been some value on the copper, pull up all the old copper and sell it to pay for construction of the FIBER.
Sounds like a great idea to me. |
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rabeatz
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Apopka, FL | reply to robl27
Because I'm sure the value of the copper will pay for the labor to remove it all first, as well as the labor and materials required to lay the fiber... |
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kustomjs
join:2006-12-12
Coldwater, OH | reply to gatorkram
well the fiber we got here in rural ohio is not true fiber anyways. |
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