Re: When Will Directv add more channels?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Nielsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:59:22 -0700, Lenroc wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:16:05 -0500, Dr. Personality wrote:
> >
> >> We just got DSL where I live (farm country).  I get 720 kB download
> >> (plus 10 MB storage and some other stuff from my ISP) for $44.95/mo. 
> >> Cable, schmable.
> >
> > Eh? I get 1.5Mbps (Mega_bits_) down for $40/mo from my cable co...
> >
> > Yours is only impressive if you made a typo and meant 720KB (kilo_BYTES_)
> > per second. What you actually said, kilobits, is a little more than half
> > of what I get...
> >
> 
> The SI abbreviation for kilo is lower case k in either case.   What he
> said, kB, implies kilobytes, kilobits = kb.
> 
> However, 720 kb sounds more reasonable for DSL at that price (mine is
> more like 640 kb, for $51.95 counting both the telco and ISP charges).


As I already contritely posted, I typed kB when I meant kb, and I don't
usually do that.  I feel sort of dumb about it.

It is 720 kb.  (I have 768 kb service, so given the general condition
of the infrastructure around here, I think I'm doing pretty well.  My
ISP is talking vaguely of being able to offer 1.5 Mb service out here
Real Soon Now.  They're already doing so in town, which is about seven
miles away.)