To: Digimaus
  Re: Fiber
  By: Digimaus to All on Tue Apr 23 2024 07:58 pm

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.comp
 >
 > Hi everyone,
 >
 > The federally-funded Affordable Connectivity Plan ends this month due to the
 > lack of money (since the US federal government is busy sending our money all
 > over the world instead of fixing problems).  I was able to get 600/600 fiber
 > Internet with no data cap and a public-facing "static" IPv4 address for
 > around $70 a month.  I was paying USD$25 for 300/300 with that "static" IP
 > address so I figure if I'm gonna pay, might as well go faster!
 >
 > Once I can get more income coming in, I can upgrade to 1GB/1GB for around
 > USD$90.
 >
 > I do have LAN equipment that can handle gigabit WAN and LAN speeds.  I'll be
 > putting in a pfSense box into my LAN that has a 3.4ghz i5 and 8 GB ram in
 > it, including two Intel PRO/1000 PCIe NICs.
 >

whats funny is for charter is see on their website they are offering some phone
deal to the people for a year.  why not just make it cheaper. nope. cant do
that.

they keep raising our bill up by 5 bucks every x amount of months. all we have
is internet and it's out of hand. it's not getting out of hand.  we are at the
point where it is out of hand.
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