[aklug] Re: Fast Downloads in Anchorage

It if funny you mention this... I have used pfSense (formerly M0n0wall) for
over a decade, but in the last year I have had to put gigabit cards in them
because clients have gotten 250mbit service. I never thought I would have
to do that... not on a cable modem anyway ;-)

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On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us> wrote:

> I have to respond to this. Your ISP can say they have super fast Internet.
> Does your firewall / router support it? I don't know if any home firewall /
> router systems will support Gigabit Internet. It's expensive to get
> enterprise level firewalls that would support this.
>
> At the moment I think GCI is selling something customers can't use. Just
> my 2 cents.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Scott A. Johnson <
> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Yes I know this email chain is 10 years old....)
>>
>> How's this for some nostalgia?! 10 years ago we got all excited when GCI
>> rolled out 5Mbit speeds! Now, gigabit is supposed to be here within the
>> next 90 days. How things change in a decade. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On Monday, September 19, 2005, George Strother <gstrother@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just signed up for GCI's 5mb internet last week.. currently have ACS
>>> (pay
>>> for 960/320 but never get over 55K/s down)..
>>> You have to sign up for GCI cable TV/local phone.. after all the bells
>>> and
>>> whistles (and taxes) it was just under $140 dollars a month.
>>> Still though, the local telco companies are going to have to change or
>>> they
>>> are going to lose a good amount of their internet business.
>>> George Strother
>>> Fort Richardson MWR IMO
>>> On 9/18/05, Robert Crowe <forge@mtaonline.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Howdy,
>>> > Obviously GCI changed their internet package. It used to be they had a
>>> > monthly cap that was woefully low if you downloaded music (with
>>> > sharpmusique for linux to access fairplay) or video files. They changed
>>> > eh? I think I need to research this. I use MTA as well and it adds a
>>> hefty
>>> > $50 to my bill and if they need my business than they need to step it
>>> up.
>>> > Bob
>>> >
>>> > Geez. And I'm still stuck here with stingy MTA - both at home and
>>> > work. The highest speed they go is 768 (which I still have yet to get
>>> > over 70 KB/s on), and they still have the 10 GB download limit. You can
>>> > get 4-8MB speeds if you get DTV - but if you are a business, you can't
>>> > get that. So bottom line is, they have _no_ decent internet packages
>>> > for businesses.
>>> >
>>> > For the same price as what we're paying MTA for 768, we could be
>>> getting
>>> > 10Mbps and no limit with GCI. If they would just run their lines across
>>> > the street, but we've been asking them about that for over 5 years now
>>> > with no progress.
>>> >
>>> > </rant>
>>> >
>>> > Justin
>>> >
>>>
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>> --
>> Scott A. Johnson
>> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
>>
>
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