High speed internet Accessability

Stephen Schmucker sdschmucker at home.com
Tue Nov 13 21:39:17 EST 2001


Depending on which cable company you are going with, Be careful that they don't nail you for running servers.  Make sure you know what the user agreement says.

Steve


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On 11/13/01 at 4:50 PM Michael wrote:

>Unfortunately, DSL is not available in my area.  I don't think that the
>provider who has DSL monopolized here in my province of Newfoundland Canada,
> is not planning expansion any time soon but get this,the Company
>the company has applied for a $5.00 per month rate increase on its phone
>service!   It would make you thro up what you never ate!
> because they own the backbone, I doubt they would allow competitors.
> Most likely they're going to receive a royalty from the cable companies
>any way. On the other hand, That might change now that Cable high speed is
>available in there dialup service area.
>The DSL provider will certainly loose a big chunk of there dialup customers
>so maybe, just maybe, they might do something.  I'm not waiting,
>I'm jumping over to cable in a couple of weeks.  Even if the DSL
>monopolizer, which hasn't been to kind and supportive to its rural dialup
>customers,
>all of a sudden decides to make plans to launch DSL in the spring,
>I won't be jumping back .  Screw them! LOL <evil grin>
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>Michael
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