LAMapper
@rr.com
|  reply to Mortis
Re: How much and where?
Thanks for the info, I am fortunate to live in a part of the country where there are plenty of options, I know many are not that lucky.
The banner at the top of this forum, for me, is from Sonic, "6.0Mbps/768Kbps: $34.95/month, from California's #1 rated ISP on BBR!"
When I speed tested my cable today I got 6026 Kbps up and 484 Kbps down, not terrible, but I would like at least 10 Mbps Up and 10 Mbps down...heck give me the 100 / 100 for $40 per month (see the article below). Of course I am paying less than $35 so that helps some.
And the 'chance' to get 6000 up consistently and even better get closer to 768 down with Sonic is very tempting. After all with DSL being Point to point, and probably having a static IP (nice to have) I would not have my bandwidth sucked out by others. Yes very tempting indeed.
Makes me sick to think that in Japan they can get the following (while 100 Mbps is not all over Japan, Japan still averages 61 Mbps; that has to help them innovate and come up with new uses, ideas, new revenue streams and more. I know I am not alone in wanting it and I don't even use half of what many use (no videos, no gaming, no P2P, from my location the Cable company loves me!)
For the life of me I can't understand why some entrepreneur has not lit up some dark fiber and gone after 40% of the US market like they successfully did in two years in Japan. What would 40% of the US Cable / DSL market be worth anyway? Not to mention that 'cash flow' is King and with fiber, the bandwidth is almost limitless, so no need for arbitrary throttling as many companies want to do to us today. Hmmm the possibilities. I know I would buy their service, heck I would go to work for them and help them grow, what a rush!!!!
Link to article about faster speeds in most of the industrialized world compared to what we have here in the U.S.: »www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co···larticle
(If I ever build a community, I am going to run fiber in two different directions to two different NOCs - i.e. not owned by the same company - and let the community own and run the fiber company for the benefit of the community! Think it would offset 'gas' prices? Probably not, and yes I am a dreamer! Perhaps a few twirly (name?) similar to the QR5 (see link below), but cheaper, around $13,000 to generate power and sell excess energy back to the power company. And 'buried' power lines so we never lose power in a storm, ever. Electric powered vehicles in town (leave the gas ones in a 'garage' each day a little ways away from home and hop in my electric car to/from home. Low and dimmed outdoor lighting, so you can see the stars again. Hmmm.)
»www.quietrevolution.co.uk/qr5.htm �€“ QR5 is more expensive than the twirly (sic) it retailed for around $13K, but the picture is similar. (search Vertical-Axis wind generation) |
