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Y-ellow Jim 'n' y'all.

Jim Fang wrote:

> The fixed contract is just like any other sweatheart phone deal.

Obviously. 

> Do you know anybody who does have the service?  10mb onto the
> internet, 60KB/s is very good access.   The cable modem box is not
> that much different to a cable TV box.  I know someone who is very
> heavily into the web and plays doom, quake, etc and loves the no-lag.
> He can also forward his mail to himself, work from home, do live video
> conferencing with the office, etc.

That all sounds really good until reality steps in and ruins your day.
Firstly this is telstra we're talking about. Secondly at some point,
when enough people get on the cable network, the bandwidth will become
so crowded that you may as well be talking Morse code to the net. What;
Do you think they're going to just keep adding cables down streets to
keep up the bandwidth or something? I don't think so. At least your
local corner ISP can add another 128K ISDN link if the bandwidth
warrants it. Or as most of them do these days, A 2meg link at a time.

> For $40 per month, I get busy lines and share a 128KB
> ISDN link with 32 other users, being an average 4KB.

If your getting slugged that much for that poor a service, perhaps it's
time to look at the competition.

There are really only two points here.
(1 is) All the small ISPs built on the original AARNET back bone to
build the net in this country and as such, the axiom "No-one owns the
net" currently stands. If you want to just give the net to telstra and
therefore big Bill and his mate Rupert then be a dick-head.

(2 is) If you've got more money than brains and wanna join all the other
clueless idiots to form the biggest block of fools since AOL, be our 
guest.

But.

You'll be sorry.

And

You're just giving up without a fight. Making it all that much harder
for the rest of us who give a shit.

In reality However I personally don't really care what you do. It may
look inviting, as I myself initially thought but then I realized what a
crock it really was and the fact that it can only get worse. If all you
do is play games over the net then I guess it's for you. If you wanna do
anything serious or even just have reliable e-mail, take another look.

And of course once Bill, Rupert and Telstra have had their way with the
net in this country, having wiped out all the competition, we can look
forward to $165 bucks a month plus 8 bucks an hour and probably a dollar
per meg. Why not. If there's no competition, who are you gonna turn to?

Be absolutely Icebox.

Batz
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