Hardloper wrote:
Beautiful Day wrote:
I live in the most populated city in the lower-48, and I have two ISPs to choose from. But I can expect a wave of new ISPs now, right?
Yes, right after Comcast charges you $4.99 extra to view LetsRun World Famous Message Boards so they can push their LRC competitor.
Thenz wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
I live in Silicon Valley
Why did you reply with that? That doesn't affect anything he said. Silicon Valley is podunk and you are free to move. I live in Silicon Valley and I have more thsn 2 ISPs available. Maybe you don't know how to shop?
Deal with it wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
That's not the issue. I have two choices for ISPs in my area. They might decide to make me pay extra to visit LRC, while instead favoring their own shitty running website. They might slow the bandwidth of the traffic down to LRC if they want to squeeze further.
It's all about a fair playing field.
It is perfectly fair for your ISP to do whatever it wants. If you don't like the service, you're free to go with another.
DuhMyBrain wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Beautiful Day wrote:
I live in the most populated city in the lower-48, and I have two ISPs to choose from. But I can expect a wave of new ISPs now, right?
Yes, right after Comcast charges you $4.99 extra to view LetsRun World Famous Message Boards so they can push their LRC competitor.
Yes, b/c it is so simple to get in to the telecoms business.
Why do you think the big ISPs are cheering about this? Do you think they really want more competition? That would be illogical.
DuhMyBrain wrote:
Thenz wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
I live in Silicon Valley
Why did you reply with that? That doesn't affect anything he said. Silicon Valley is podunk and you are free to move. I live in Silicon Valley and I have more thsn 2 ISPs available. Maybe you don't know how to shop?
Seriously? Name them. I'd love to not have Comcast or ATT
Hardloper wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Beautiful Day wrote:
I live in the most populated city in the lower-48, and I have two ISPs to choose from. But I can expect a wave of new ISPs now, right?
Yes, right after Comcast charges you $4.99 extra to view LetsRun World Famous Message Boards so they can push their LRC competitor.
Yes, b/c it is so simple to get in to the telecoms business.
Why do you think the big ISPs are cheering about this? Do you think they really want more competition? That would be illogical.
They're cheering because they are about to launch their LRC World Famous Message Boards competitor and will soon be charging you to view LetsRun. Please try to keep up.
DuhMyBrain wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
Thenz wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
I live in Silicon Valley
Why did you reply with that? That doesn't affect anything he said. Silicon Valley is podunk and you are free to move. I live in Silicon Valley and I have more thsn 2 ISPs available. Maybe you don't know how to shop?
Seriously? Name them. I'd love to not have Comcast or ATT
Still waiting ...
BayAreaDudeThatUsesAT&T wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
Thenz wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
I live in Silicon Valley
Why did you reply with that? That doesn't affect anything he said. Silicon Valley is podunk and you are free to move. I live in Silicon Valley and I have more thsn 2 ISPs available. Maybe you don't know how to shop?
Seriously? Name them. I'd love to not have Comcast or ATT
Still waiting ...
Try
- Sonic (uses AT&T fiber optic lines but independent of AT&T with, maybe, better pricing)
- Earthlink (not sure they are cost competitive with Comcast or AT&T - not sure what their deal is)
- Hughesnet (satellite based; shitty service from what I understand)
I'm willing to pay my happiness, and not a penny more.
Sorry LRC, zero. It's been a fun ride but time to go back to messageboard roots, writing on bathroom stalls.
Unbundling of fares for airlines = good.
People love to fly Spirit and Frontier. Their rates have driven costs down across the board.
Why will this be different? There is tremendous overhead for starting an airline as well. Yet competition still occurs.
I'm a big fan of letsrun. It is literally my favourite site to be. I couldn't put a price on it because it's value is behind measure. I would be honored to be one of the owners of letsrun. Someday that will be my goal. The brojos, benevolent dictator and Renato Convano are my favourite people(apart from Bekele). If Bekele was on this site then it truly would be paradise. Maybe when re retires after his marathon world record's he will come. I must reach out to him literally. I have many articles and posters on my wall, with news and photos of letsrun stories/people. When I wake up in the morning, I look at my wall while I ate breakfast, and it gives me inspiration for the day, when I leave the house. I imagine that some day, when I become a big part of letsrun, will dedicated letsrun fans have posters on there wall's, with me beside brojos and any of the others who are high up here.
All three branches of your American Federal government have become such a joke. You use public--tax payer money--to do research and then you hand the fruits over to corporations and may everyone pay even more for the technology than you paid in taxes originally. You complain about our high European taxes, but at least we only pay for things one time.
sissu wrote:
All three branches of your American Federal government have become such a joke. You use public--tax payer money--to do research and then you hand the fruits over to corporations and may everyone pay even more for the technology than you paid in taxes originally. You complain about our high European taxes, but at least we only pay for things one time.
Banana Bread wrote:
I'm a big fan of letsrun. It is literally my favourite site to be. I couldn't put a price on it because it's value is behind measure. I would be honored to be one of the owners of letsrun. Someday that will be my goal. The brojos, benevolent dictator and Renato Convano are my favourite people(apart from Bekele). If Bekele was on this site then it truly would be paradise. Maybe when re retires after his marathon world record's he will come. I must reach out to him literally. I have many articles and posters on my wall, with news and photos of letsrun stories/people. When I wake up in the morning, I look at my wall while I ate breakfast, and it gives me inspiration for the day, when I leave the house. I imagine that some day, when I become a big part of letsrun, will dedicated letsrun fans have posters on there wall's, with me beside brojos and any of the others who are high up here.
Deal with it wrote:
DuhMyBrain wrote:
That's not the issue. I have two choices for ISPs in my area. They might decide to make me pay extra to visit LRC, while instead favoring their own shitty running website. They might slow the bandwidth of the traffic down to LRC if they want to squeeze further.
It's all about a fair playing field.
It is perfectly fair for your ISP to do whatever it wants. If you don't like the service, you're free to go with another.
adiBRO wrote:
Banana Bread wrote:
I'm a big fan of letsrun. It is literally my favourite site to be. I couldn't put a price on it because it's value is behind measure. I would be honored to be one of the owners of letsrun. Someday that will be my goal. The brojos, benevolent dictator and Renato Convano are my favourite people(apart from Bekele). If Bekele was on this site then it truly would be paradise. Maybe when re retires after his marathon world record's he will come. I must reach out to him literally. I have many articles and posters on my wall, with news and photos of letsrun stories/people. When I wake up in the morning, I look at my wall while I ate breakfast, and it gives me inspiration for the day, when I leave the house. I imagine that some day, when I become a big part of letsrun, will dedicated letsrun fans have posters on there wall's, with me beside brojos and any of the others who are high up here.
This is relevant to my interests.
No one cares about the traffic generated by letsrun. That's the ISP's least concern.
Currently, 80% of Internet traffic is basically youtube and netflix. And they make millions off of it and they don't provide the "pipes"; ISP's do.
So why not make youtube and netflix pay more?
Compare with tolls on a road bridge. Pedestrians are free (=letsrun), 16 wheelers pay extra (=youtube).
Nutella1 wrote:
No one cares about the traffic generated by letsrun. That's the ISP's least concern.
Currently, 80% of Internet traffic is basically youtube and netflix. And they make millions off of it and they don't provide the "pipes"; ISP's do.
So why not make youtube and netflix pay more?
Compare with tolls on a road bridge. Pedestrians are free (=letsrun), 16 wheelers pay extra (=youtube).
Great thing. Perhaps less americans will write here in the future.
