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Re: why the push for DSL->Uverse

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From: Bruce Esquibel
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:50
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> We won't mention that he's been without service since the 4th and how
> many times AT&T has been out there.

Pfffft.

Remember Casa del Ripco has both Comcast and At&t so outages are dealt with
a quick click on a control panel.

Honestly, so far no problems with the fake-uverse since the last tech visit.
There still are those random, middle of the night reboots on the router, but
maybe once every couple weeks at best.

I'll tell ya though, that Comcast really can't be beat for speed. Melissa
needed like 6 or 7 iso images downloaded (400-600mb each) for some shit she
was working on and maybe tops, 20-25 minutes to grab all of them.

It's too bad they aren't straight forward with pricing and jack around
people with random rate increases, but if this is really the basic, entry
level internet service they have, it's still impressive. There was some
story going around last week that they discontinued the 250GB/month cap
until they do some research.

I guess it was a 3 strikes and you are out rule, now they are considering a
structured rate like at&t is doing where 250GB is included and it'll be $10
extra for every 20 or 50GB over.

Either way, it's supposed to be no cap enforcement until they figure out the
new policy.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com
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From: Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com>
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Subject: Re: why the push for DSL->Uverse
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:50:23 +0000 (UTC)
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