That's where I was going.. Residential fine.. have fun with a shared medium - but look at the offering cable companies have for their commercial clients (only can speak about NY). Monthly Fee $109.95 Downstream up to 3Mbps Upstream up to 384Kbps Monthly Fee $299.95 Downstream up to 3Mbps Upstream up to 512Kbps Monthly Fee $209.95 Downstream up to 768Kbps Upstream up to 768Kbps shawn. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Pinsky Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:30 PM To: Adam Jacob Muller Cc: Matt Bazan; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Jacob Muller wrote: | | It's simple, | A DSL provider like speakeasy offers much more to a technical user like | myself than Comcast does, plus they have an incentive to keep me happy, | if i'm not i can leave and go with a competitor, comcast does, and has | on many occasions, simply told me to go f*ck myself when i have service | issues. (Sorry your modem died sir, the next we can get a tech out to | your place is 2 weeks, when i don't need a tech I know what it means | when a modem has a failure code). | | The fact is, DSL is a competitive market, Cable is not, competitive | markets keep customers happy, monopolies anger people. | And more than the technical user is the benefit to corporations and businesses that DSL providers offer. We see many companies using DSL as a cost effective replacement for backup services formerly run over dialup, ISDN, and other on-demand technologies. The AUPs, filtering policies, routing policies, etc of cable operators are simply not geared to meet the needs of even the most simplistic of corporate requirements. - -- ========= bep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCgl0nE1XcgMgrtyYRAnKBAJ9kPK2/CQ9A+bqMIe4S/9oEZOEFjwCgw/bY k1AnnyyKLRIsNMZby0KBa/8= =dsjN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----