----- Original Message -----
From: "David McNab" <david@rebirthing.co.nz>
To: <cesther@release.com>; <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: good choices for a jetstart isp?
<Snip>
> IMO, other broadband offerings like Saturn Cable (with 1GB limit) and
> JetStream (with 400MB or 600MB limit, and stupidly high charges for higher
> quotas) are a complete joke. It's like renting a Ferrari where driving
more
> than 10km in a day incurs a $100/km penalty.
>
> Also, watch out for ISPs that forbid the use of 'servers'. Such ISPs are
> within their rights to define a 'server' as *any* program which
> automatically accepts incoming TCP connections. This would prove
> unacceptably restrictive for many of us.
>
> David
>
> PS - C'mon Telecom, when are you going to offer an intermediate product
such
> as 'JetCruise' which offers 256k or 512k flat rate?

Sure faster/flat rate would be nice. But if you want to lay down 30,000+Km's
of submarine fibre-optic cable under the ocean at an absolutely astronomical
cost, you can see why we're not getting 2Mbit flat rate accounts for people
to suck dry. After all everyone knows that when a user sees 'Flat rate',
that means 'Suck me dry 24/7', heck, everyone i know with jetstart downloads
24/7 @ 15k/sec.
We should be lucky to get 128kbit flat rate *and* full speed to the
jetstreamgames realm. Now if only they would allow some *nix mirrors there,
it would be perfect (heh, and maybe some sortof telecom 'highspeed' website
would be cool (movie trailers and stuff)).

Btw, you aren't paying for a ferrari, you're paying for a morris minor (if
that), and those are the speeds it can go :)

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Received on Fri Aug 3 12:57:32 2001