For those of you who don't live in the EU, France currently has the Freebox (it's actually 2 boxes: a router and a multimedia box attached to your tv) which acts as a DSL modem at 24Mbps, streams digital television to your tv, acts as a digital television receiver for terrestrial broadcasts, has a 4 port switch along with MIMO wireless, has built in VOIP with free calls to 28 countries, the ability to stream TV to your computer from the router and DVDs from your computer to your TV, and all of this for 29.99 euros a month everything included. (http://adsl.free.fr/)
On top of this, Free gives you a fixed IP address, a 1Mbps upload, and the ability to customize your reverse DNS.
Every time I come back to the states and see all of incumbant telephone companies doing everything they can to keep their monoplies and the FCC acting as their puppet, I get extremely annoyed.
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For those of you who don't live in the EU, France currently has the Freebox (it's actually 2 boxes: a router and a multimedia box attached to your tv) which acts as a DSL modem at 24Mbps, streams digital television to your tv, acts as a digital television receiver for terrestrial broadcasts, has a 4 port switch along with MIMO wireless, has built in VOIP with free calls to 28 countries, the ability to stream TV to your computer from the router and DVDs from your computer to your TV, and all of this for 29.99 euros a month everything included. (http://adsl.free.fr/)
On top of this, Free gives you a fixed IP address, a 1Mbps upload, and the ability to customize your reverse DNS.
Every time I come back to the states and see all of incumbant telephone companies doing everything they can to keep their monoplies and the FCC acting as their puppet, I get extremely annoyed.