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Mag-X:

--- Quote from: TorturdChaos on October 27, 2009, 03:42:00 PM ---I remember reading an article about a medium sized town that got fed up with Comcast and the other 2 internet providers jerking them around.  I believe the whole thing started with trying to get the lines for the schools up to date.  Local gov't asked them to bring the area's lines up to date, but they wouldn't do it.  So after going around and around with all the internet providers in the area charge everyone the same prices for slower speeds b/c of older lines, the local gov't decided to put in their own fiber network.  They offer something like 10Mbit/10Mbit connection, not caps, and a slew of other features is there basic package to their residence for something like $30.00 a month.  The next step up was something like 25Mbit/20Mbit i think.
Anyways, the local gov't said they were charging just a bit over cost to pay for the installation, and figured within 4-5 years they will have paid for the installation and will then be putting the money into a fund for repairs or future upgrades.  I will see if I can find the news article again.

I just wish I could get something like that here.  Best I can get is the $115.00 bundle for cable TV - cable internet (8Mbit/ .75Mbit) and phone.  I have a cell, and was going to ditch the phone, but it would have cost me $5 MORE a Month w/o the phone.  I believe the internet by itself is about $50.00/month if you just get it. 

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Just posted today: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars

Gamerzhell:
Price: 59.95 AUD = 54.3584 USD
Speed: 24m/1m (sync 20m/1m (gonna resolder lines to get max perf next month))
Difficulty: router drops out if i max out connection for 10+ mins (probably due to quality of in home line)
Country: Australia
Provider: Netspace
Cap: 25/30gb peak/offpeak 64kbps/1m capped (during first 2-3 days after cap resets i get unlimited for some reason (at max speed that's about 250-400gb) found this out last month while trying to find a "better" way to download lots of anime, also uploaded about 150gb so far this month.

shin00:
Monthly Fee: $129 (was around $60 for the first year)
Bandwidth: 25mpbs up/down no cap
Country: United States
Service Provider: surewest fiber
Package: price is for fiber internet and a phone line
Performance: awesome, ftth is nice, no monthly download caps and service rarely goes down. theres a 50/50 tier but its almost 200 a month, way too much for my blood.

my second connection at the gf's place

Monthly Fee: $89
Bandwidth: 14mbps/1mbps dsl
Country: United States
Service Provider: frontier
Package: basic local phone and interwebs
 Performance: totally horrible, our dsl services goes down every night and I get 500+ ping in any online game. They route any google traffic from the west coast to east coast then back  so anything google related lags like hell or takes forever to load.  :'(

Drew:


Price: Way too much.

Shit sucks. Wish I had Verizon here, but that's what I get for living in the middle of nowhere. :(

shin00:
DOCSIS 3.0 isn't it?

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