I checked the Comcast web site, and indeed, it has started offering a <br>
number of new Internet packages, with new combinations of down/up<br>
speeds. The highest speed package is now 8Mbps/768Kbps. <br>
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Competition is a wonderful thing - one can now probably either get their<br>
same service for a lower price, or a higher speed service for the same<br>
price. I'm guessing here that Comcast will not automatically lower the<br>
price for whatever service you currently have.<br>
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Competition works for web hosting sites too. <a href="http://godaddy.com">godaddy.com</a> will give<br>
you "up to" 10GB of hosting space for about $8 a month. Apparently<br>
with the introduction of 500GB drives from 3 or 4 manufacturers, others<br>
are increasing the amount of hosting space too.<br>
<br>
<br>
Yes, it pays to check the web page for your service now and then.<br>
Thanks for the comments Nick.<br>
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-Bob<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Reid</b> <<a href="mailto:linux@toomanycomputers.com">linux@toomanycomputers.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:17 -0800, Bob Kline wrote:<br>> I bolixed the last message. Some of this might be a repeat.<br>><br>><br>> Anyway, I currently pay $70 for a Comcast 6Mbps/768Kbps service,<br>> in the GR area. $15 of this is for a basic cable TV package that I
<br>> don't even use.<br>><br>thats interesting as i am paying like $59.xx for my Comcast ... i know<br>its like 6Mbps as i am getting like max dowload speads of 650-700K/Sec.<br>the up stream i have no clue on...<br>
i have like 13$ for the basic-basic and the other 45 is the high speed<br>internet stuff.<br><br>><br>> Today someone said they received a card with a promotion on it, for<br>> 4 months for a 6 Mbps/384Kbps service, for $20 a month. After that
<br>> it's $43 a month But the service seems odd - 6M/384K is not a<br>> combination I've seen before - if this is right.<br>><br>><br>> Is anyone paying less than $70 for the 6M/768K setup? That would
<br>> exclude people that have Comcast TV.<br>><br>i haven't seen any sort of alternate plans from Comcrap yet.. just the<br>one flat rate.<br><br>><br>> -Bob<br><br>-Nick<br><br>_______________________________________________
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