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leighklotz writes:

Last weekend I got a call from Comcast offering me Cable Internet service for an introductory rate of $21.95/mo. I asked how fast and the telecaller said, "Six hundred and thirty five gigabytes." I said, "Per month? Per hour? Per second?" She said, "Per second, sir."

I asked, "Can I run servers?"

She said, "Yes sir!"

I said, "On port 80 and port 25?"

She said, "On all ports, sir."

I said, "Before I sign up I'd like to speak to your supervisor to confirm this great deal."

Sadly, the deal evaporated when I got to speak the the sympathiser, but she was interested in what I wanted. I told her I had 1Mb/1Mb symmetric access and static 8 IP addresses, and she asked what they could do to get me to move to Comcast Cable Internet service. I suggested perhaps symmetric service 1.5Mb/1.5Mb would be nice, or perhaps 3Mb down and a portable Class C netblock to do multi-homing with my current 1Mb SDSL uplink. She wrote it all down and said she'd pass my request along.

I'm still smarting at the loss of the 635GB/sec downlink for $21.95/mo though!

posted Tue 30 Sep 2003 in /random/humour | link

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