[TriLUG] Time Warner price increase

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 16:38:35 EST 2009


I'll speedtest when I get to the house tonight and ping you back.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:

> Carl,
>
> I'm curious ...what's your upstream/downstream? Are you paying whatever
> package is supposed to mirror tw's?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of dsandif
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:14 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Time Warner price increase
>
> Why can't we do what the brilliant folks in Wilson NC did and start our
> own ISP?, why do we have to put up with this crap in the first place!?
>
>
>
>
>
> Carl Crider wrote:
> >  The main reason I stayed with Earthlink when I moved in 01' was that I
> > could (1) Use them as a cable internet provider without changing my
> > contract, and (2) It's always been $5 a month cheaper for the same
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > Win and win.
> >
> > 2009/12/3 Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I use Earthlink thru TWC.
> >>>
> >> +1 for making the switch to Earthlink. The retention deal TWC offered
> >> didn't come close to the Earthlink 6-month introductory pricing, and
> >> after the introductory period the Earthlink price is still about $5
> >> lower than the same TWC tier. Icing on the cake for me: I now have 2x
> >> the upstream and 4x the downstream I had directly through TWC for less
> >> than I used to pay. Oh, and: no equipment change. Just reboot the
> >> modem and blam!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> --
> >> Cristóbal M. Palmer
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> >> about what rules and what sucks. Nothing is more fun than evangelism."
> >>  --Larry Wall
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