[aklug] Re: Last days of unlimited?

From: michael huff <mphuff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 21 2010 - 16:34:25 AKDT

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>wrote:
> On Monday 21 June 2010, michael huff elucidated thus:
> > I'm not sure where everyone is at, but I subscribe to gci's "Ultimate
> > Package Plus" which includes their "Ultimate extreme" internet plan
> > (details here:
> > http://www.gci.com/forhome/promos/xtreme/xtreme_asd7.htm ) which
> > comes with unlimited internet. It's expensive (~$140/mo total), but
> > again -I'm not aware of any alternatives in Alaska that would be
> > cheaper (while providing adequate broadband).
>
> I'm not sure what you consider "adequate," but I have the ACS 3Mb plan
> (uncapped), and it does fine. We even get some TV shows in HD, even
> though Netflix says 3.5Mb is required for HD.
>
> That would probably work for anything I'd want it for then. I read their
website and it looks like it's
DSL? How easy (or hard) is it to use with *nix (specifically Ubuntu -which I
assume is easy,
or FreeBSD, which would be less so)?

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