[BC] Wideband in DC

[Mark W Earle]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:13:44 -0700 "R J Carpenter" <rcarpen at erols.com>
writes:
> Mark W Earle commented:
> >A home high speed connection is $20-40/month.
> 
> Not everywhere!
> 
> I live 15 miles from that big White House in DC.
> 
> Verizon's web site tells me that they can't supply me with ADSL.  It 
> 

Funny you have it but the "official" line is it is not available. I lived
in Houston until 2005. Our street had been torn up numerous times to run
fiber. It was only in 2003 we got the ability to buy DSL. Prior to that,
it was $60/mo for the cable (not Time Warner, but a small outfit) data
plus you HAD to buy TV. I used ISDN for a long time. 

My point though is if it's not avail, Toile, Version, and Circular have
reasonably priced data for $60/MO, or, you can get a satellite data
service via Dish Network. There are solutions, for the person who INSISTS
on downloading music or porn or whatever. I insist they figure it out and
NOT do it on company PCs/ connections. 

An interesting option here are wireless mesh hot spots being provided by
the local city government. The primary use is to read meters (water and
gas) automatically. The secondary use is "Internet everywhere". It's far
from everywhere at this point, so they're letting it be used for free.
The eventual plan is to charge about $10/month. 


> would be close to $40 a month if they could.  They don't offer 
> service in much of Potomac, an upscale region near me. Potomac is 
> upscale, but the part I'm talking about has small lots.
> 
> Comcast can give me high speed computer access via their TV cable, 
> but it's $60 per month - same price with or without Basic Cable TV 
> service. About $45 if I already had TV cable - which I don't.
> 
> The weird thing is that I actually do have ADSL from Verizon and 
> usualy get 1.4 megabits per second.  They get overloaded some 
> evenings and then surfing is SLOW, slower than my old dialup service 
> 
> which I have kept.
> 
> bob c.
> 
> 
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Mark 
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