From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 20 12:51:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20419 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20414 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4002.ime.net [209.90.195.12]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id PAA00940; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:51:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981220154331.00abe360@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:48:56 -0500 To: Amancio Hasty From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8) Cc: "Oleg Ogurok" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812202043.MAA46806@rah.star-gate.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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