Re: Comcast "Economy Internet"

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 16 May 2008, Tom Metro wrote: 

> Bill Horne wrote: 
>> And the other posters are correct: Comcast is evil. 
> 
> Speaking of Comcast, I received a postcard from them this week promoting an 
> "Economy Internet" service. 
> 
> The ad focuses on all the junk software and services they bundle, and 
> conveniently doesn't mention the data rate anywhere except in the fine print. 
> 
> How slow is it? 768 Kbps. Funny, given all the ads they've ran over the past 
> few years pointing out how much faster cable modem service was compared to 
> 768 Kbps DSL (even though most DSL users are probably running at 1.5 Mbps). 
> 
> So for only $25/month you get all the speed of a $15 DSL connection and all 
> the port filtering of Comcast. 
> 
> -Tom 
>