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tacogirl #321825 02/01/09 10:02 AM
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Im renting a house for a couple of months. The owner told me that she thought BTL would provide me internet service for two months. Has anyone had any experience with this type of short term service?

tacogirl #321845 02/01/09 11:11 AM
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I'm sure they'll connect you, but at what price? I think there are fixed standing costs for connection, and you'll pay those no matter how brief your connection will be.

Peter Jones #321848 02/01/09 11:17 AM
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thanks peter...probably will be too expensive

sailfish #321858 02/01/09 01:12 PM
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If this is always a rental house, why don't you suggest to the owner that if she installed internet she could charge a bit more for rental? It's not like telephone where she could be left with a huge bill by a unscrupulous tenant - internet costs are fixed and known in advance.

Peter Jones #321865 02/01/09 02:15 PM
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Coral Cable is a cable TV company and a regional tier 2 ISP that gets their bandwidth from BTL. BTL is, for better or worse, the only national IP backbone and has over 100Mbps running to the island to serve their internet customers. Coral Cable has a MUCH smaller connection to BTL. They have 800+ internet customers sharing a 40Mbps distribution cloud (DOCSIS 1.x) further funneling down into a much smaller connection to BTL. Coral Cable is therefor massively oversubscribed and their link to BTL is pegged for 20hrs+ a day. They know this, but essentially their hands are tied.

BTL also just lowered their DSL pricing in line with Coral Cable with the commitment to a local phone package (homefone for residence, bizfone for business)

BTL Pros: great quality bandwidth, decent support, never oversubscribed, one bill for phone, internet and mobile.

BTL Cons: requires you to get a copper phone line also - even if you never use it, high installation fee ($330), huge deposit ($1000bz) for non-residents, socially speaking - still a monopoly with lots of bad habits.

Coral Cable Pros: no phone line required, fast/cheap installation, no/low deposit, local company

Coral Cable Cons: oversubscribed, good connection for email and chat - not youtube or music/movie downloading.

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