Authored by: eBob on Wednesday, July 20 2005 @ 07:47 PM CDT

Comcast is the best and getting better! They keep increasing the speed. Even
with an airport it's a fast connection.

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Authored by: ktickner6767 on Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 09:17 AM CDT

Comcast provides good service but, the price in South Florida is $60.00
per month. I feel that it is over priced compared to other markets inside the
United States. Comcast does not have any competition in South Florida.
The only alternative is the slower DSL service provided by Bellsouth.

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Authored by: eBob on Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 02:21 PM CDT

We pay around $45/month here in Illinois, but it's included with my digital cable bill. Plus there's a whole bunch of taxes included.

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Authored by: Christobel on Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 09:29 AM CDT

$56 in New Jersey from local cable company (Patriot). No DSL option in our area.

Authored by: Hagen on Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 06:07 PM CDT

Even though I have 3 meg DSL at home, I have a gigabit ethernet direct
connection at work. Guess which one I spend more time on?

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Authored by: truax on Friday, July 22 2005 @ 12:56 PM CDT

I get high speed DSL and I live in the center of nowhere! That's how far DSL and
high speed have come in the last couple of years.

Fort Benton, Montana

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Authored by: Jungle Eddie on Friday, July 22 2005 @ 04:57 PM CDT

Had a run-in with Comca$t when I built my present house that left a real bad
taste. Two years ago I went DirecTV and last year went Verizon DSL. If I still
used those Comcast rat bastards I'd be paying almost $50 more a month for TV
and internet.

Thanks, but no thanks...even if it means a slightly slower connect (it's still
lightyears ahead of the dial-up ISP I used to use).

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Authored by: ChillyWilly5280 on Saturday, July 23 2005 @ 01:01 AM CDT

Comcast is $55.50 for 4 MBs here in Denver, but I'm getting ready to
switch to EarthLink 1.5 MBs DSL for $40 a month ($20 a month for the first
6 months). Most of the time I'm limited by the server on the other end so
hopefully the difference won't be too noticeable. I love the speed of
Comcast but it's just too expensive for my budget.

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Authored by: Duh on Monday, July 25 2005 @ 04:43 PM CDT

I have Cox. It's 20.45 for 4 mbs, but I have dah digital cable and my
telephone service with them too. Incidentally, my telephone bill has gone
down about 20 bucks a month since I've been with Cox...

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Authored by: Duh on Monday, July 25 2005 @ 04:44 PM CDT

Oh yeah, we have a T-1 at work.

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Authored by: lurker on Wednesday, August 3 2005 @ 01:31 PM CDT

Shaw Cable in Calgary has a high speed extreme connection, 7 MB for $47.95
Canadian per month! A great deal! I have not ran into any problems with this fast
connection at home... even when I download the Linux ISO CD's which are 650
MB each! Speed is very addictive!

The University's latest connection speed is a 133 MB line, but there are 25,000
people connected to it at any given time! It is slow during the school year!

Maurice S.

Authored by: joncalon on Thursday, August 4 2005 @ 09:18 AM CDT

Was wondering if anyone would mention Shaw's connection here. $37.95
for a 5Mb/sec connection, and as Maurice mentions, another 10 bucks
gets you a 7Mb/sec connection. And we've got plenty of bandwidth to go
around.

However, I suppose I should shut up when it comes to what I'm paying for
my cable and internet...but then, I work for the cable company. and no,
unlike the automakers, we're not sharing our employee discount.... :-)

Jon Calon
Calgary, AB

Authored by: kdawg on Thursday, August 4 2005 @ 11:46 AM CDT

Streaming video please.

Authored by: Shawn on Thursday, August 4 2005 @ 05:28 PM CDT

"Streaming video please."

You mean of the archive? Don't know about that - that's a 300 meg file. It would
cost us a small fortune to stream.

Authored by: hanineal on Saturday, August 6 2005 @ 04:11 AM CDT

>>"Streaming video please."

>You mean of the archive? Don't know about that - that's a 300 meg file. It would
cost us a small fortune to stream.

One word. BitTorrent.

Authored by: androulidakis on Friday, August 5 2005 @ 01:38 AM CDT

Although I have a high-speed connection from my home in New Jersey, I'm
frequently on the road when listening, and there is no available broadband
connection.

As I write this, I'm listening to the archived show via ISDN—the fastest
available connection here on the island of Milos in Greece. This 128 kps
connection was a big, hassle-filled step-up from dial-up service. No
broadband will be available here for at least a year, maybe more.

I'd think the question should be better framed as "Do you *ever* listen to the
show using dial-up?" That might remind people of when they've been forced
to use dial-up in Midland, Texas or Nampa, Idaho or Greenport, Long Island
as I have over the past couple of years.

Please keep dial-up access as an option. It's nice to be able to tune in from
wherever I happen to be traveling.

Best regards, and thanks for your hard work.

Nick Androulidakis

Authored by: Nicholas on Monday, August 8 2005 @ 04:34 AM CDT

I live in the slow, slow, slow lane!

I have just dial up, and would be forced to committ hari kiri if the audio only feed went away! It was a bummer to not be able to download a broadcast (which I totally understant BTW) to listen to while surfing.

Please keep the audio stream'n!

ps: is there not some fancy quicktime function that detects the speed and then gives you video and/or audio at certain speeds?

Authored by: dqbiggerfam on Monday, August 8 2005 @ 11:10 AM CDT

ONebad thing about living in Alaska is that internet is expensive up here. The less of my bandwidth cap I use the better, especially at 10 buck per gig over my limit.

I know I could upgrade my cable modem package, but if it weren't for podcasting (I'm currently sorting though the podscasts to see what i can dump) the 8 gig limit would be more than enough.

Ugh, long ass post, I'll summarize it: Please don't drop the audio feed(completely anyway. If you don't want to host it on your server, at least let audible host it) for those that do have low bandwidth caps(there is no cheap unlimited internet up here as far as broadband goes) or dialup(which still has an established base).

Authored by: recordingpro on Monday, August 8 2005 @ 11:04 PM CDT

I have Verizon FIOS...15Mb down, 2 up!!! I can stream 480P even on a Mac
Mini.

I average 2Mb download;-)

Authored by: Duh on Thursday, August 11 2005 @ 08:57 AM CDT

I have high speed, but I listen to the audio only stream.

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Authored by: Digital Dawg on Friday, August 26 2005 @ 09:58 AM CDT

Man o' live do I love broadband.

Four simultaneous downloads; one at 200KB, three at 125KB. But a distant memoy are the days when a download that hit 10KB was cause for jubilation.

I still remember when I was listening to a local radio show called "On Computers" and the host, Bob O'Donnell, started talking about something called "DSL" that would be really fast. But, it was a whole year and a half away... ;-)

DD

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Authored by: XbrokenX on Tuesday, August 30 2005 @ 11:47 PM CDT

I just finally got broadband like two weeks ago, and wow, how refreshing it
is. I had been suffering through dial-up for over 10 years, and it has been
brutal. But now I am wireless on my TiBook, woo hoo!

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Authored by: cornermac on Friday, September 2 2005 @ 05:16 PM CDT

I have high speed access and love it: because of the speed!

I don't want to lose that snappy internet experience to extra "bells & whistles"
which I don't need and haven't missed.

Keep the site lean and fast please.

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Authored by: RuthLind on Saturday, September 3 2005 @ 08:22 PM CDT

I only WISH I could get DSL!

In rural Pennsylvania, our only choice is
Direcway, which requires its subscribers to sign an indemnification/hold
harmless clause. This means customers agree to pay all Direcway's legal
costs if anyone ever sues Direcway, even for matters outside the customer's
control.
No thanks.

To add insult to injury, we live 1.2 miles from the switching station, and
Verizon refuses to supply DSL. Not only that, they are not required
by PA state law to provide a dial-up connection capable of sustaining an
internet connection! And they don't!

I indulge in high speed during my frequent travels, and download you guys
from Audible.