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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-good-to-last dept.

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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  1. oh man.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a shitter. It is (well, was i guess) a geek dream come true. Lame Lame Lame. (Hmmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with us not paying them in the last 5 months?) :)

  2. cheap $3.00 crack smoking moderators at it again.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pr0n K1ng already posts at -1. Moderating that post as a tr0ll gives it a -1. It is still at -1. Why not try to moderate up a good comment as opposed to moderating down this comment. Unless of course you are trying to ban him. However, I suspect he has ways around this, he's an old sk00l tr0ll.

    So, fuck you, you cheap $3.00 crack smoking moderators!

  3. Guerilla Moderation: not a troll but +1 Funny by unitron · · Score: 1, Troll
    Some days I don't mind not being chosen as a moderator considering the company I'd have to keep

    Re:No wonder it tanked (Score:0, Troll)
    by ENOENT on 06:37 PM October 18th, 2001 (#2449452)
    (User #25325 Info)
    Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."

    Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.

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  4. Maybe someone thinks trolls are a joke by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 0, Troll
    OK: You got your funny moderation, but that only gets it up to it's native '1'. Is someone else willing to add another funny moderation point to this?
    (and don't worry, it was moderated with another account).

    This is a job for metamod

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