OT: was Facial Hair... now New Speeds available

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:57:27AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> With the new Verizon 30Mb down and 5Mb up OPTICAL service now available in
> our area... Scott just got it for his home. (this is residential version...
> things look REALLY good for switching from the old $1440/month T1 service.
> Why? Becuase it is $44.95 per month!!!!!!!!  It also has 3 phone jacks
> should you widh to buy Vo/IP from them as well. Yeesh, they bring an optical
> line right to your house (no charge for installation!). This is
> unfortunately or FORTUNATELY too hard to pass up. There business service is
> $389 per month! Let's see, $389 from $1440 that's less, right???? :-)

Yeah, it's less.

But you know what that money pays for?

It doesn't pay for the loop.  It used to be about 60% support staff and
40% upstream router port fraction and profit.

> My God a savings of about $1k per month.  I'll *take* the possibility of a
> fe tiny outages.... Hell, I have a fail over dial-up line, and the new Sonic
> Walls provide fail over DSL as well.

If that works for you, by all means, go with that.

> We, at least, are moving on up... to the east side...
> tad-dah-deeh-dah-dee-... dah-dee-dah! :-)

Hee.  ;-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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