[ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services

[Larry Press <lpress@csudh.edu>]

On 8/27/2010 5:48 PM, George Ou wrote:

> You have to be truly ignorant to claim that VoIP works fine in best effort.

Well, I guess I am truly ignorant then.  My wife is from Chile and logs 
around 4 hours a week on Skype, and my ignorant students and I hold 
teleconference class meetings combining Skype and screen sharing.

This is with an "up to" 3 mbps down and "up to" 768 kbps up DSL link 
from Verizon.  They may get fiber to my home in west Los Angeles 
sometime during my lifetime, which will make me a little less ignorant.

Maybe your standards for working "fine" are higher than mine.  Is your 
cell phone "fine?"

> You don't have to pay $45 or $100 for traditional TV.  There are 120-channel

I was just repeating the number from the post I was replying to -- did 
not look at my bill.  It's around $100 a month plus tax for DSL, minimal 
TV (lo def, no HBO, etc.) and telephone service.  I don't know what part 
of that is TV.

"Crappy" is of course subjective.  I watch little TV, and there are no 
programs I watch regularly.  My wife watches more, but we just counted 
and can only think of 11 channels we've ever watched.  We really buy the 
TV package so my wife can watch three channels and I can watch the Tour 
de France.

We spend a lot more time watching movies and on the Web for news, 
education and entertainment than watching TV.

Larry