[sllug-members]: Bad UTOPIA news - let's do something about it

Allen Schultz allen.schultz at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 14:00:30 MST 2008


I'm currently with xmission, but downtown SLC. Would it be available to me?

On Jan 3, 2008 1:55 PM, Adam Barrett <dragen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should also mention there are other providers as well, mStar,
> iProvo, Veracitycom.
>
> Furthermore anyone can setup services on Utopia as well. It is there
> for exactly this purpose.
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 1:54 PM, Adam Barrett <dragen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Through Xmission it costs $40/month for 15Mbps up and down. This
> > covers both the line fee and complete Internet residential service
> > from XMission.
> >
> > They also offer 50Mbps for $50/month.
> >
> > Compare that to the ~$54 Comcast wants for 7Mbps down and up to 3 Mbps
> > up, and you can see right away the compared value.
> >
> > Add to this that Xmission will not shape packets like Comcast does for
> > video and large file downloads and you have even more value.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2008 1:46 PM, Allen Schultz <allen.schultz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What kind of prices/speed is UTOPIA getting/giving?
> > >
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