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From: John Hasler on 17 Feb 2010 17:39 The Natural Philosopher writes: > Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of > internet.,. Do you pay by the minute for outgoing local calls? Did "going broadband" allow you to drop wireline service entirely? Did it merely involve adding Internet service to cable television service you already had? For some of us the answer to all those questions is "no". -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: The Natural Philosopher on 17 Feb 2010 18:02 John Hasler wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: >> Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of >> internet.,. > > Do you pay by the minute for outgoing local calls? Did "going > broadband" allow you to drop wireline service entirely? Did it merely > involve adding Internet service to cable television service you already > had? For some of us the answer to all those questions is "no". (un?)Lucky you. My annual costs have steadily dropped as my connection bandwidth and usage has gone up. Today internet cots are the lest of my worries. It costs me more to tax the cars. Before I even insure them of drive them at all.
From: unruh on 17 Feb 2010 20:24 On 2010-02-17, John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: >> Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of >> internet.,. > > Do you pay by the minute for outgoing local calls? Did "going > broadband" allow you to drop wireline service entirely? Did it merely > involve adding Internet service to cable television service you already > had? For some of us the answer to all those questions is "no". Actually in some cases the cost that the ISP charges for dialin service is larger than the cost that some of the carriers charge for broadband. I am on a special deal for which broadband is $10/mo, and telephone ISP was $19/mo. Of course this is a special. But illustrates what can happen.
From: GangGreene on 17 Feb 2010 20:43 John Hasler wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: >> Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of >> internet.,. > > Do you pay by the minute for outgoing local calls? Did "going > broadband" allow you to drop wireline service entirely? Did it merely > involve adding Internet service to cable television service you already > had? For some of us the answer to all those questions is "no". For some of us the some of the questions are "Hell Yes" If you go broadband (RoadRunner) with Vonage and drop the cable you can get broadband for $30.00 and Vonage for $30.00 with unlimited calls local and long distant. That's just $60.00 a month. Vonage is needed when your wife calls California from the midwest when you leave for work only to find out when you get home she is still talking to the same cousin as when you left.....for approx 10 hours. Yes I looked at the call record from the call log at vonage.com She _WAS_ on the phone for all that time to that number. Don't Ask me how it's done I don't have a clue. The cost to me for those calls was zero. With "those" being the key word. Now the broadband has a cost savings as well... It allows her to use Yahoo messenger (with webcam) to video phone home....with home being the Philippines, again with zero cost to me. Her and her 8 brothers and sisters can talk all they want...but I'm going to bed. Ain't technology great!
From: Roger Blake on 18 Feb 2010 09:47
On 2010-02-17, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of internet.,. We have unlimited local calling, so $7.00/month dialup access is about as cheap as internet access gets. Occasionally I get calls from companies trying to sell broadband. I tell them what I'm paying now for internet access and that if they can meet that price I will consider their service. (There is little benefit to broadband for me since I work primarily in text mode from a Unix/Linux shell.) There is a nationwide dialup infrastructure still in place in the U.S., and it's certainly not being maintained just for my benefit. I have to assume that there are still enough dialup users to make it worthwhile keeping all those modem racks humming. -- Roger Blake (Change "invalid" to "com" for email. Google Groups killfiled due to spam.) "Obama dozed while people froze." |