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    From August Abolins@618:500/23.10 to Jay Harris on Sun Jan 22 20:05:00 2023
    Hello Jay!

    The whole technology is over-priced.

    We're now paying $101.99 /mo for the internet + $10 /mo for the modem, so $111.99 /mo plus taxes ($126.55 tax total). (The modem was free for the first two years).

    Yep, overpriced. But we're letting Bell get away with it.

    A friend of mine has the Rural Net package from Bell (a small
    cellular-based receiver attached to a pole/extender at the side
    of his home. He get's the "unlimited" package ..and I set up
    his Samsung TV to connect via wi-fi and use the built-in TV
    browser; it's not a bad solution. But I still think this "data"
    tech is overpriced for what it delivers. He's paying over
    $100/mo too.


    Bell recently ran fibre down our street and knocked on my door..

    I was happy to sign to have them install, but they have yet to do so.

    Recently as in post-lockdowns?


    Though from what I understand Bell Fibe doesn't yet support IPv6..

    Hmmm.. That sounds unusual. I didn't know that.

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  • From Warpslide@618:500/23 to August Abolins on Sun Jan 22 21:54:05 2023
    On 22 Jan 2023, August Abolins said the following...

    Bell recently ran fibre down our street and knocked on my door..

    Recently as in post-lockdowns?

    Yeah, this was just in August/September that they were digging/drilling on the street and late September when they were asking permission from all of the residents to run fiber into their homes.

    Though from what I understand Bell Fibe doesn't yet support IPv6..

    Hmmm.. That sounds unusual. I didn't know that.

    I'm hoping that it might me a regional thing. We're in a smaller suburb where the fastest we can get here is "only" 1Gb up & down. My father-in-law lives a 12 minute drive away and can get 3Gb up & down. So maybe different areas have different options available (like multi-gigabit and/or IPv6)?


    Jay

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