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Room Service
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What kind of internet connection do you use.

Cable here!

Once you go cable you never go back!

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littletrain
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fiber optics, with a t3 back up

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Mr. Toy
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Dial-up. I find broadband too expensive. I can do 90% of what I need to do just fine at 56K. The other 10% doesn't justify doubling my internet access costs.

Parade magazine reported recently that in Japan they get broadband service that is 10 times faster than in the US at half the cost. Europeans enjoy similar service. What those countries have is a highly competitive broadband market. What we have in the US is a handful of companies tightly controlling our broadband access.

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wap4
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Hi Mr.Toy,
The broad band access in the USA might be expensive due to a lot of factors like amount of cable used, labour and insurance cost etc. It might be due to the large amounts of copper/OFC used cover the large area of the USA.
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rresor
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Why does everyone think broadband is expensive. I have a cable modem that costs $40 per month. My dialup costs were as follows:

Local phone line $15
ISP fee $20

Total $35

For $5 more I get 100 times the speed. That doesn't look expensive to me.

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irishchieftain
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Is this a chat room? I thought that we were discussing Amtrak in this forum.

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I agree. This board is a great free service, courtesy of the fine people at Trainweb.

Many Amtrak travelers (myself included) have found it to be an excellent source of information and feedback. It's by far the best board of its kind.

But if you fill it up with topics that have absolutely nothing to do with Amtrak or train travel? People will stay away (something that appears to be happening already). And Trainweb could conceivably pull the plug.

So don't blow it. When posting here, in the words of a once-popular song, "act your age, not your shoe size."

And if you're still really bored? Go out and ride a train.

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Geoff Mayo
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I pay £27.99 a month for 576kbps here in the UK, that's about US$42. That's about mid-range in terms of prices.

It means I can surf this and other rail sites quioker, although Freeserve heven't been serving anything for the last 3 hours. (Hint: there was a link to get back on-topic!)

Geoff M.

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Room Service
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I think the subject line makes it quite obvious what the content of this post would be before it was opened.

What is so hard about NOT opening a post with a subject you have no interest in?

And just to keep things on topic, why is there not internet service avalible onboard Amtrak. The technology now exists for even CARS to recieve full satellite TV and internet service.

Why would Amtrak NOT offer services they could over-charge for to help subsidize operations? I'd love to be able to check my email on a long tran trip, or, at least be able to check in on this freakshow (of which I'm proud to be a member)once or twice along the way.

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