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Bandwidth vs. Broadband?
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megamania
Hero
Nonlethal Force said:
Arlington doesn't have it by Manchester and Bennington does. Vermont law makers are trying to push a law allowing everyone to have cable / net service. They only want companies to pay for it. Like we need to give companys / industry another reason to avoid this state......
megamania
Hero
Piratecat said:Like Bront, my connection at home is faster than my connection at work; I work in a video game company, but that's thirty other people all trying to simultaneously access high-def game videos every time I'm trying to download anything. Or so it seems.
We don't have cable TV, but we do have a cable modem! I tried using dial-up when I was last at my Mom's in Vermont, and it started to make me twitch. How I survived the days of 14.4 baud modems I have no idea.
Oh wow. Where in Vermont?
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
For me, that would be my last nerve hanging on by a thread.megamania said:
papastebu
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The only thing we could get other than dial-up, would be Hughes Net satellite broadband. Insanely faster, but insanely expensive, as well. The lowest starting price they have---for their slow package, now---is $90. The one that I want would be a whopping $120 for a month's service. Aside from the prices, the one thing that I really want but can't get from the internet---online gaming---would still be just out of my reach, because of a second and a half upload lag. The images would get to me just fine, but my guys would keep getting killed in real-time situations because the server wouldn't get my commands in time.Frukathka said:
I've been wanting to try City of Heroes/City of Villains, WoW, heck, even Everquest, for ages, but a country boy cain't git no luv!
P.S. What I forgot to tell you, Fru, is that dial-up IS the affordable alternative.
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papastebu
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Is it possible... and this will sound hickish to all you techno-savvies, out there... is it possible to use a cable modem without a cable service in the area? I thought that it couldn't be done. If it can, point the way and I will follow. I need to game online. Really.drothgery said:
Nonlethal Force
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EDIT 2: I misread your question, sorry. No, you do have to at least have cable in the area to get cable internet AFAIK.
We currently have our TV run through satellite. That part is awesome. We have our internet run through the cable service. That too is awesome. I personally sonsider that the best of both worlds!
The only thing is that most cable companies give a discount on their internet service (usually about $5 per month) if you get cable through them as well. Since we don't, we don't get the discount. It is still worth it, though!
EDIT: And, don't worry about sounding hickish. See my earlier post regarding where I live. I almost always have more bear through my yard than people (besides my wife and myself, of course). A daily ritual for me is to stand outside and watch the hawks circle over my house (I live at the crest of a mountain range) as they look for a rabbit. On a total aside, my flowers are doing much better this year since the hawks (or coyotes) apparently got the rabbit family that ate my flowers last year. bunnies are cool, but not when they live close to a garden! Any, I digress. You don't sound hickish at all - at least not to me! Better ask then not!
We currently have our TV run through satellite. That part is awesome. We have our internet run through the cable service. That too is awesome. I personally sonsider that the best of both worlds!
The only thing is that most cable companies give a discount on their internet service (usually about $5 per month) if you get cable through them as well. Since we don't, we don't get the discount. It is still worth it, though!
EDIT: And, don't worry about sounding hickish. See my earlier post regarding where I live. I almost always have more bear through my yard than people (besides my wife and myself, of course). A daily ritual for me is to stand outside and watch the hawks circle over my house (I live at the crest of a mountain range) as they look for a rabbit. On a total aside, my flowers are doing much better this year since the hawks (or coyotes) apparently got the rabbit family that ate my flowers last year. bunnies are cool, but not when they live close to a garden! Any, I digress. You don't sound hickish at all - at least not to me! Better ask then not!
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Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
I grew up in East Montpelier, and my grandparents had a place on Silver Lake in Barnard. My Mom's near Montpelier. I think she could get high speed internet at this point, but for better or worse she's used to dial-up.megamania said:
Where are you, again? i'm thinking northeast kingdom, but that might just be my imagination.
I know I could get a discount on cable service with the whole TV-internet package, but I don't like watching TV very much. Or, perhaps more accurately, I like it too much; when I'm somewhere with cable, I stay up 'til 2am flipping channels. I don't particularly like how that makes me feel, so I avoid it at home. I'm probably the only person at work who doesn't have a HD tv at this point.
Then again, I now have three or four game consoles stacked on the dvd player.
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