[aklug] Re: Fast Downloads in Anchorage

Wow - forgotten about that email.

Sharpmusique. Now that is nostalgia. That was Fedora Core 4 days - remember
looking up the display resolution in a paper manual to configure the
xorg.conf.

Simpler times. :)

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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