[sac-forum] Re: Commspeed
- From: "Bill VanOrden" <beevo1@xxxxxxx>
- To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:14:39 -0700
Stan,
Sorry to hear that. My guess it has to do with losing usage to the cell
phone & tablet market.
I just got a Droid phone and Verizon gives me 4G/month for $30. Now the
rates seem higher in comparison, but you have to figure in that it will
acquire and connect to any open wireless it can "see" wherever I go. We
have wireless at work and of course I have a wireless node at home. My
total usage for the first month was .058Gb
Here's where I connect the two, hopefully in a sensible manner. The users
have devices that freeload on other providers, which is paid for by the
businesses frequently, hell even McDonalds has free Wi-Fi. If I ever get
cancelled there are two neighbors who have unsecured wireless in the
neighborhood.
I think Commspeed has to up the charges due to a few reasons, fewer paying
customers and more cost of providing the connectivity. Plus a lot of people
would tolerate the lower speeds and then just let the machine grind away in
the off hours, using up lots of Gb's
Beevo
PS,
Mike, please don't read this... {;o)
-----Original Message-----
From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:01 PM
To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sac-forum] Commspeed
This is somewhat related to astronomy because if I have to go back to
dial up I will no longer be able to look at all the nice images members
post in Az-Observing.
Less than a year ago I always had dial up. Commspeed had a special high
speed offer for about $25/month. I just received, and verified with
them, that they are going to a new charging tier. It will no longer be
based on connection speed, but on gigabytes downloaded each month, hours
of internet browsing, and number of email messages received. Up to
10G/month the charge is $44.90 plus $2 per G over 10G in a month. Does
anyone know if this portends a trend that other internet providers will
be following? I will being going back to dial up and put up with the
inconvenience of making trips to the library to download large items,
although it is not a complete inconvenience since it will get me out of
the house. Being retired has its disadvantages.
Stan
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