Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks

Dr. Zowie writes: "In the current gloomy high speed connection market, a ray of light was Sprint's ION service. For $100/month, they would provide local phone service, long distance service, and 8mbps down, 1mbps up DSL-like digital connection. I've been waiting for the service to turn on to write a review about it -- but the service has been discontinued and all orders are being cancelled. Too bad -- ION was like a geek dream come true." ION was only available to a relative handful of people, but it sure sounded good. Anyone have suggestions for this sort of combination service?

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Re:heh.. oops :)

[jiheison]

hmm.. i think my m and k keys are switched.. damn qwerty hehe

Or possibly:

hkk.. i thinm ky k and m meys are switched.. dakn qwerty hehe

Re:Maybe someone thinks trolls are a joke

[unitron]

If you moderated up the original, that was wrongly moderated down to begin with, of the comment of which I posted a copy in order to get it some visibility and recognition , I'd thank you, except for your apparently having separate posting and moderating accounts, which isn't in accord with the way moderation is supposed to work (those of us who post frequently or very seldom aren't part of that middle group from which moderators are selected, no matter how high our karma), and probably the reason there's so much questionable moderation these days.

Perhaps my guerilla moderation is a violation of sorts of the spirit of the moderation rules, but at least I'm upfront about it, do it under my only user name, and am willing to take any karma hits that result.

Re:Maybe someone thinks trolls are a joke

[Stephen Samuel]

I have two accounts that exist because when I started a new job, I couldn't remember my password -- so i started the second account. I recognize the reason for not allowing discussion and votes together and religiously never moderate my own comments.

This thread is as close as I've ever come to violating the spirit of the mod/post rule. (and I did take a -1/troll hit for making it).

The main reason I now have them both active is that the older account was the almost forgotten for a while, until one day I lost the cookies for the newer account (which had maxed out karma). In trying to get it back, I resurected the older account, and started using it on my secondary machine. I'm now seeing if I can get the second acount to +50 karma)