On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:56:35PM -0500, 

Sam MacDonald wrote:

>> Nate is right I had to ask to be upgraded from the original speeds to 
>> the 869kbps up and 1.5mbps down.
>> Just normal "Ma Bell".
>  
>

You might want to send that to the list if you didn't already.  Looked
like you just replied to me.  :) 

Nate




Nate Carlson wrote:

> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Yaron wrote:
>
>> I kinda find it hard to believe that they charge the same for 256K 
>> and 7M... anyone ask them? $38+$19.95=much less than I'm paying for 
>> DSL... heck, I think I'm paying Qwest more than $38! Definitely 
>> paying the ISP more than $20, but that's worth it.
>
>
> I confirmed the price with ipHouse, back when Qwest originally 
> announced the new DSL product to ISP's.
>
> The theory is that most users aren't actually going to use that much 
> total bandwidth with the faster speeds; they will just use the same 
> amounts faster.
>
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