Also take a look at each of their Terms and Conditions pages. ACS, for
example, won't let you stream music and limit you to "average amounts of
bandwidth usage" (what, exactly, is average?).
From http://www.acsalaska.com/consumer/c-internet/terms.stm#14
Under no circumstances may any PIPE DSL customer run a streaming
audio/video server, "shout-cast" station, MP3 or other audio or video
download area with the PIPE DSL service. In the event any PIPE DSL
customer attempts to utilize a commercial or any above-mentioned server on
the network, or if Customer's personal servers generate more than average
amounts of traffic and/or bandwidth usage, ACS Internet may, at its sole
discretion, increase the fees associated with the Services, or terminate
the Services.
I have DSL from ACS and I download a lot and have never been charged
extra, but it is something to keep in mind.
Anthony Valentine
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Adam Bultman wrote:
>
>> I work from home all day. I stream music, I download ISO images, I have
>> SCP sessions running, I have SSH running all day. I don't want to find
>> out that I'm 50 GB over some month and find out I own them a ton of
>> money.
>>
>> If anyone can shed light - or maybe tell me about how ACS 768/128 is,
>> I'd like to know.
>>
>> Just FYI, right now I have ~3 Mbit down/256k up (420kbytes/sec by 28
>> kbytes/sec) for 60 bucks a month (45 if I had cable TV). For 2.4
>> Mbit/256 on gci, I'm soaked 170...
>
> To be perfectly honest, here in Anchorage you just aren't going to find a
> deal even remotely close to what you've already got. I know that I, for
> one, would kill to have that kind of bandwidth for that kind of money.
>
> You'll probably just have to take a hard look your bandwith usage and cut
> back on what's not work-related. Barring that, be prepared to pay more.
>
> Mike
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