[Cialug] DSL provider costs.

[Don Cady]

>You'll don't know me but here's my take. I'm moving into Nevada, IA from
>Rhode Island in a week. I'm a full-time telecomuter who does the technical
>implementations of medical software (MS SQL, Win2k3, Oracle, CentOS). I can
>live anywhere in the country as long as it has high speed internet. Now, 
>Why
>do I want to move from the East Coast to Iowa? Family..my inlaws live in
>Nevada and I'm a Minnesota boy.  It's time for the grandparents to spend
>some time with the kids.

Welcome to Iowa.
You're also welcome to come visit our little lug..

>explaining my issues with the costs. I currently pay $50 in Rhode Island 
>for
>a 5Mbit up/2Mbit down with a static IP.
$50 for 5Mb _UP_?

>like this. If they want your business then they have to be competitive with
>the alternative(Mediacom).
exactly.

>I was looking at Mediacom but I've heard the horror stories of overloaded
>nodes and I didn't want to take a chance. Once I move I might get them for 
>a
>month or so and run constant speed tests, tracerts and ping plots to see 
>how
>she does. The 10Mb/1Mb package sounds interesting if you can get a stable
>connection.
>
>-Jim

Yes, it does. Maybe you could use the above tactic regarding competition to 
get on a new or sparse node. I doubt Nevada is going to be growing as fast 
as the Dsm or Illinois suburbs.

Don