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[mussa]

To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:

-- Send 50 million e-mails (at 0.05 KB/e-mail)
-- Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
-- Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
-- Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
" Of course HD streaming will also speed up that limit.

not something to be worried about

[Seabiscuit36]

for me it is

[Susquehanna Birder]

We have 4 people in the household sharing that connection. Some are streaming video, some are downloading music, some are just surfing. I do a lot with photos, both uploading and downloading. I know it takes a lot to get to 250 gig...but it's still within reach for me.

[Diomedes]

I think we are eventually headed towards a pay-as-you-use model, like we have with electricity.

[General_Failure]

I'd prefer to see a cellphone-style model, with rollover gigs.

[Cerevant]

250G is a lot of volume.  Typical caps up here are in teh 60G range, and the only people who break that are running Bittorrent 24/7.

[rjs246]

My rollover minutes are all milky.

[General_Failure]

You know what happens to my sister's minutes at the end of the month?

[mussa]

I highly doubt any of you reach 250 Gb's, not even close...

[Seabiscuit36]

I highly doubt any of you reach 250 Gb's, not even close...

i can invite you into my world, but can you handle it

BT4LIFE

[General_Failure]

I download a gig in about an hour. I'm sure I could find 125 movies to watch this month.

[Father Demon]

I've had CenturyTel naked DSL for about 9 months now, and use Vonage as my phone service.  My DSL works fantastically as long as the weather is good, but if it rains, and more recently, if there is electricity in the air like preceding a lightning storm, my DSL will flap like crazy.  It's so bad, my DSL (and also Vonage) is unusable, and I have to steal a neighbor's signal just to use the internet.  I've had CenturyTel out over a dozen times replacing outside wiring and checking for shorts, but they only come during nice weather so they never find anything, and then never fix anything.  Twice I've had them credit me a full month on my bill.

My brother-in-law (not Phanatic, but another one) told me he could probably find the cause of the problem, so he came out this weekend to fix everything.  Well, my DSL works now (although it hasn't rained since), but only one phone in the house works - the one directly connected to my Vonage device.  The rest of the phones have dial tone, but when you dial the third number in any phone number, a recorded voice (presumably from my Vonage device) says that the number can not be completed as dialed.  So, I went from some service to no service.  It's abviously an inside wiring problem that CenturyTel won't touch without charging me about $50 an hour.

It finally dawned on me how to get CenturyTel to fix all my problems.  I just signed up for basic voice, along with their wire maintenance plan for $23 a month combined.  I'll keep Vonage for the long distance.  As soon as my service is installed (tomorrow), I will call to open a ticket about my inside wiring not working, and have them come fix everything for me.  Then, when it's all working, I drop the voice plan, and go back to business as usual.  It seems so easy, that something has to come along and get me.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I want 45 seconds of my life back.

EDIT:  Make it 75, since I bothered to type this.

Thanks in advance.

[Wingspan]

I've had CenturyTel naked DSL for about 9 months now, and use Vonage as my phone service.  My DSL works fantastically as long as the weather is good, but if it rains, and more recently, if there is electricity in the air like preceding a lightning storm, my DSL will flap like crazy.  It's so bad, my DSL (and also Vonage) is unusable, and I have to steal a neighbor's signal just to use the internet.  I've had CenturyTel out over a dozen times replacing outside wiring and checking for shorts, but they only come during nice weather so they never find anything, and then never fix anything.  Twice I've had them credit me a full month on my bill.

My brother-in-law (not Phanatic, but another one) told me he could probably find the cause of the problem, so he came out this weekend to fix everything.  Well, my DSL works now (although it hasn't rained since), but only one phone in the house works - the one directly connected to my Vonage device.  The rest of the phones have dial tone, but when you dial the third number in any phone number, a recorded voice (presumably from my Vonage device) says that the number can not be completed as dialed.  So, I went from some service to no service.  It's abviously an inside wiring problem that CenturyTel won't touch without charging me about $50 an hour.

It finally dawned on me how to get CenturyTel to fix all my problems.  I just signed up for basic voice, along with their wire maintenance plan for $23 a month combined.  I'll keep Vonage for the long distance.  As soon as my service is installed (tomorrow), I will call to open a ticket about my inside wiring not working, and have them come fix everything for me.  Then, when it's all working, I drop the voice plan, and go back to business as usual.  It seems so easy, that something has to come along and get me.

Could you edit this down to 1 sentence and make it interesting? Thanks

[Father Demon]

I want 45 seconds of my life back.

EDIT:  Make it 75, since I bothered to type this.

Thanks in advance.

No.  I'm bored, and you were a captive audience.

Could you edit this down to 1 sentence and make it interesting? Thanks

See above.