Re: Tired of Dial-Up

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:51:54 -0400, TheGist <thegist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>I have dial up at home and don't mind it one bit.
>I have incredibly fast internet and work and at school
>and at every coffee shop in the area. I figure maybe I should spend
>my time at home doing something else besides being online!
>Books, crossword puzzles, and such seem to be better ways to spend my
>downtime when I am at home.
>That said, I very happy with the ISP I use and if I were to upgrade to
>DSL I would intentionally go with them even though it would cost more.
>The ISP I use is www.copper.net and I like how they advertise that they
>do not offshore work! That is something I like to sup****t! Their dial-up
>is at rock-bottom prices. Their DSL would be more than if I got it from
>Verizon directly(copper.net would have to use Verizon's lines!) but I
>would be more than happy to give my money to copper vs s***bag Verizon.
>The only thing I wonder is if copper would have to pay Verizon off to 
>use their lines? I didn't think so because Verizon's POTS lines are a
>legal monopoly and it would be ridiculous if they were able to abuse 
>their monopoly power in this way. Why, it seems almost unamerican. ;)

We had copper.net and were very happy with it. [We changed for other
reasons]. 

Another option no one has mentioned is Satellite. Some people in our
area have it because there is no cable OR dsl where they live and they
chose not to go the via cell phone route. A drawback they have found
to that is, that if you go over your bandwidth for a month the
provider slows down your speed to below dial in speeds for the rest of
the month. 

Barbara Needham