Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:48:56 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Oleg Ogurok" <oleg@ogurok.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8) Message-ID: <4.1.19981220154331.00abe360@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <199812202043.MAA46806@rah.star-gate.com> References: <Your message of "Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:26:34 EST." <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 12:43 PM 12/20/98 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >Lets see that 1999 brings ... xDSL here in Silicon Valley is way too >high : 416kb/sec SDSL at $170/month. > >Cable brings the promise of affordable high speed internet access or so >TCInet net is saying so I am waiting for them to deploy Cable Internet >access in Sunnyvale ... I think the rate I was quoted was $45/month 500kb/sec >upstream and 3 megabits/sec downstream however TCI was not ready to >deploy a month ago :( Hmm.. InternetMaine/HarvardNet is doing 69 a month for 256K or something like that.. if they come here I'd do it.. It's all ADSL though.. their XDSL services are upwards of 1000/mo for 1.5meg, which is nearing T-1 costs, or a leased 512K. Our cable system is Frontiervision out of Colorado (used to be Cablevision).. Problem is the local ISP (local as in state, not as in city) got ahold of them and entered http://www.fvpmint.net .. MINT only has 3 T-1's total for their entire network, maybe 4 now. I think anyone who follows that road with them is apt to getting screwed. On the brighter side, Time Warner Cable of Maine offers Cable internet at 27mb down (potential via their proxies, they're on multi 100mb ATM's, it's cut off at 10mb/s due to it being dropped to 10-base), and an alleged 8mb upstream with Toshiba PCX-101 modems and a Toshiba designed system. THAT is 45 a month. Bad side is, only the ADSL providers will actually *maybe* let you run servers. The cable providers have something against that, maybe it's due to the covert movement of illegal software and mpeg layer 3 media. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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