RCN vs Mediaone cable modem experiences?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

You could do much better with xDSL service. My office mate lives in 
Bedford, just signed up for SDSL (2 lines each is 400Kbps), which will cost 
him about $80.00/Mo. You get one static IP. With IP Masquerade, you can 
set up your private subnet, and you have either a 400Kbps or 800Kbps 
bandwidth. 56K dialup is asymetrical, so if you are running a server, your 
bandwidth is lower. I have not enquired about the ability to host domains. 
He signed up for Flashcom which has been advertizing like crazy. He also 
terminated his local phone service which he never uses. 

On 20 Jul 99, at 19:14, Matthew J Brodeur <mbrodeur at nexttime.com> wrote:

>    I guess it depends what you consider affordable and prohibitively
> expensive.  A dedicated dial-up can go for as low as $50/mo and a second
> phone line can be had for about $20/mo.  Personally, I'm paying about
> $90/mo total for dedicated 56k dialup with a 16 IP subnet.  I could shave
> another $10 off if I switched to a more local access number.
>    With this setup I'm also allowed to use my full bandwidth 24/7 doing
> whatever I want.  It just happens to make for a very happy little server
> hosting three DNS domains, a couple of web sites, a mailing list or two,
> and several personal PCs hung off of it.

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