Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:48:25AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| >On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:49:42AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| >| also sprach nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> [2002.01.21.2352 +0100]:
| >| > but i too wouldn't mind a pay download service ..seems
| >| > in recent months most of the fast U.S. debian mirrors
| >| > have gone away. or maybe its just my providers.. usually
| >| > 10-20kb/s once or twice i can get a site that can give
| >| > 100+kb/s.
| >
| >It's not just you. Over here in Rochester; FrontierNet (dsl) at home
| >and RoadRunner at work.
|
| This is a really bad idea.
I was just letting nate know that the problem isn't on his end (or
that the services over here have duplicated the problem ;-)).
| You implicate that there is a guarantee of
| available bandwidth if I pay a certain amount of money.
Of course there is ...
| My Cable-Modem ISP is my biggest bottleneck and they won't talk about
| it.
How much is their talk worth to you? I bet if you waved $10K under
their nose, they'd start talking. The real issue is not whether or
not money can make a difference, but how much money will make a
difference. Almost every{thing|one} can be bought for a price.
| Do I get my money back if I try to download during a CableModem
| slowest time?
You don't get your money back, but if you give enough in the first
place you'll get a higher priority (politically).
| Cablemodems basically suck because you don't have consistent speed
| and you can't get anything running for yourself.
No worse than any other medium. It's all shared somewhere along the
line; and my dsl hasn't always been consistent either.
-D
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