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*all* of my geek friends who have DSL at all have speakeasy. *all* of them.
however, unless Rhode Island is horribly different from MA, or you for some reason haven't figured out that you should sign up for flat rate rather than metered local calls, I can't imagine DSL being cheaper than dialup. speakeasy will typically cost $50/mo plus the cheapest metered line you can get; in MA the cost differential for a moving up from metered to small-calling-area flat rate is less than $10/mo, and I believe you can get dialup service for nearly free...
No. The absolute cheapest flat rate Verizon offers costs nearly $30, with all the new taxes. I thought I saw that IDT was about $20, but that's probably also before all the hideous taxes.
Our current ISP is $10 or $15. When I looked, I couldn't find any dialup that was cheaper and had decent tech support. The cheap one Otto kept pointing me to had no phone support whatsoever.
$45 is almost $50. I think I'll eat the extra $5, since I have to get a job anyway. It seems that web designers these days assume that everybody has some sort of broadband. So even mundane, low-graphics sites take forever and a half to load. I'm losing patience.
Also, Verizon was just advertising $40, and broadbandreports.com seems to have a few that are in the $20-35 range. I don't know how good they are.
Hmm. Looks like I was confused: the cost of my landline has crept up to about $28/mo, whereas it was probably around $21 or $22 when I first got it. (I probably have at least one silly extra feature that I should drop or something, though.)
Anyway, you can't buy ``just DSL'': you have to be already paying for a landline to stick the DSL onto. (Well, this is not quite true, but the ``just DSL'' serivces are way more than the cost of an ordinary phone line plus reasonably priced DSL.)
We're on try 3. Apparently, either the link was corrupted or I didn't react to it fast enough. I was checking that email account twice a day, so I think it was the former.
It's very frustrating. I wish they would let me do this by phone.
Anthony finally brought me the package you sent. Thank you so much! It made my day.
Miranda and Aslan love the bumbleball, and Miranda is wild about the little crackers. I'm saving up some of the chocolate to share with Kennric. Post-coital chocolate, mmm!
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however, unless Rhode Island is horribly different from MA, or you for some reason haven't figured out that you should sign up for flat rate rather than metered local calls, I can't imagine DSL being cheaper than dialup. speakeasy will typically cost $50/mo plus the cheapest metered line you can get; in MA the cost differential for a moving up from metered to small-calling-area flat rate is less than $10/mo, and I believe you can get dialup service for nearly free...
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Our current ISP is $10 or $15. When I looked, I couldn't find any dialup that was cheaper and had decent tech support. The cheap one Otto kept pointing me to had no phone support whatsoever.
$45 is almost $50. I think I'll eat the extra $5, since I have to get a job anyway. It seems that web designers these days assume that everybody has some sort of broadband. So even mundane, low-graphics sites take forever and a half to load. I'm losing patience.
Also, Verizon was just advertising $40, and broadbandreports.com seems to have a few that are in the $20-35 range. I don't know how good they are.
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Anyway, you can't buy ``just DSL'': you have to be already paying for a landline to stick the DSL onto. (Well, this is not quite true, but the ``just DSL'' serivces are way more than the cost of an ordinary phone line plus reasonably priced DSL.)
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We're on try 3. Apparently, either the link was corrupted or I didn't react to it fast enough. I was checking that email account twice a day, so I think it was the former.
It's very frustrating. I wish they would let me do this by phone.
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Miranda and Aslan love the bumbleball, and Miranda is wild about the little crackers. I'm saving up some of the chocolate to share with Kennric. Post-coital chocolate, mmm!
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