Subscribers like Town say they pay a premium price and expect a premium service. He uses the DirecPC service for entertainment, rather than for work. Town said he can download about 30 megabytes to 35 megabytes at a time until the FAP kicks in, a limit that is about half of what it used to be. Often the files he grabs are movie trailers that are huge files, sometimes about 120 megabytes. He ends up using his regular modem to download these files.
Nobody needs that kind of car, but it's sure nice to have one.
And, once you've made that kind of commitment, you darn well expect it to perform better than a Ford Escort. Timothy C. Barmann is a Journal-Bulletin staff writer. His column runs every other Sunday on the Computers and Technology page.