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Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
From: "Andy Johnson" <andyjohnson () ij net>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:38:03 -0400
From: "Daniel Senie" <dts () senie com>
Verizon, it's particularly sad, charges $19.95/month for dialup that'll also tie up a POTS line, where it'll offer the lowest DSL speeds at $14.95. And Verizon "cherry picks" the places where it offers DSL (and moreso for FiOS) so the affluent towns get high speed service, while the rural and poorer places only have available dialup (and that dialup is more expensive).
In my experience, the support cost of DSL is significantly cheaper than dial-up in terms of helpdesk calls. DSL/Cable/FiOS is typically a plug and play, where as dialup can be quite a bit more troublesome, involving more tech time in the long run.
Current thread:
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?, (continued)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Newton (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Daniel Senie (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Andy Johnson (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Justin M. Streiner (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Martin Barry (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Newton (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Steve Gibbard (Oct 09)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 10)