I remember, back in the early 1990's when access to the Internet required a dial-up connection. The billing was based on the amount of time the user was connected. My first month I paid something like $20, because I wasn't on that much. But then I found many interesting people and things out on this thing called the Internet. The next month my bill was $200 or something like that. I was online after work every day. The consistency of my usage of my broadband connection now is: every single day all day long. I work, I play, I watch... everything on this laptop. I need email always checking (set to check mail every minute) for new work coming my way. I do web sites for a living. My bill would be ten times that in today's world. The connection is never severed.
With the television: if my picture didn't get pixellated (sp?) every two minutes, right at the moment of the punchline or the action car chase, maybe I might consider paying more for the connection. Right now, my laptop shows better quality tv than my television does. Where does satellite fit in to all of this mess? Do they gain all the cable company's business?
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I remember, back in the early 1990's when access to the Internet required a dial-up connection. The billing was based on the amount of time the user was connected. My first month I paid something like $20, because I wasn't on that much. But then I found many interesting people and things out on this thing called the Internet. The next month my bill was $200 or something like that. I was online after work every day. The consistency of my usage of my broadband connection now is: every single day all day long. I work, I play, I watch... everything on this laptop. I need email always checking (set to check mail every minute) for new work coming my way. I do web sites for a living. My bill would be ten times that in today's world. The connection is never severed. With the television: if my picture didn't get pixellated (sp?) every two minutes, right at the moment of the punchline or the action car chase, maybe I might consider paying more for the connection. Right now, my laptop shows better quality tv than my television does. Where does satellite fit in to all of this mess? Do they gain all the cable company's business?