Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> On Thu 08 Jan 2009 06:45:52p, Arri London told us...
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> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> >> On Thu 08 Jan 2009 01:54:31p, Janet Wilder told us...
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> >> > George Shirley wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> We had fiber optic cable in Saudi Arabia twenty-three years ago
> >> >> along with fiber optic telephones, burglar and fire alarms.
> >> >> Advantage to moving into the 20th century over there, you get to get
> >> >> the latest stuff. Canadian Bell made billions of dollars installing
> >> >> all that glass.
> >> >>
> >> >> AT&T says they will get around to it one of these days. Hah!
> >> >
> >> > I'm served by AT&T, too. I have asked them about upgrading our lines
> >> > for DSL and they pretty much laughed at me. With de-regulation, they
> >> > don't want to pay for the infer structure and let other companies be
> >> > able to use what they paid for. We still have one of the few
> >> > non-digital switching stations in the universe. Dial up is 19.9 at
> >> > it's very fastest. I sometimes expect Lily Tomlin to answer the phone
> >> > when I dial
> >> "O"
> >> >
> >>
> >> Boy, do I understand that! In our previous house the only options for
> >> Internet access were either standard dial-up or DSL, both from the same
> >> provider, Qwest, as was our phone service. I had DSL, but both the
> >> speed and quality sucked big time. My current broadband service
> >> through Cox is equal to the network at my office. When I work from
> >> home and connect to the network at work through a VPN connection, I
> >> can't even tell that I'm not sitting at my desk at the office. Our
> >> digital phone service, also through Cox, is superior to any that I've
> >> ever had.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Wayne Boatwright
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> >
> > We've got (Qwest) slow dialup too. Any upgrade would cost a lot for us.
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> Our Cox bundle for cable, broadband, and phone is $99/mo plus taxes.
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That's three times what we are paying now