said by Dan L :

I'm going to miss it, and now that most people have already
arranged some other internet, it is SMOKING fast here in
San Jose (commonly over 5 megabits).
All of the alternatives are rather unattractive. For the same
money, I'm going to be getting a quarter the speed with
monthly caps. This is the first time in my experience with
computer technology that I am going to be paying MORE for
LESS.

There were a few burbles in this last month of service. Some
people that didn't use their connections much had them
turned off, just to get them to call tech support so that
the customer could be notified that the service would be
discontinued at the end of July. Whoever thought that was a
good idea is some kind of idiot. And when I called the
support number to get my neighbor's internet turned back on,
I was not connected to an overseas support department. I
got to talk to a slightly discouraged american sounding guy
that arranged for a "hit" on my modem, to get it
reprovisioned.

I've looked at a couple of satellite providers (Hughes and
Wildblue), and babysat a wildblue dish installation. So now
I hate that stuff: the installers are like used car salesmen
and the technical support that I got from the Indians at
Earthlink was borderline criminal. The Hughes guys were
pretty good, actually, with technical support. And I won't
talk about FAPPING, and underdelivered bitrates.

There's some guy in our neighborhood that's running point
to point microwave, 802.11 and 5.8 GHz stuff, and unless
you get yourself a little dish and skim some of the cream
that is being distributed to your neighborhood the bitrates
are .. disappointing, at best. He can't build it out fast
enough or big enough to compare to the old service. He needs
hilltop locations and good viewsheds, so each step forward
is a negotiation.

The G2 and G3 networks can just barely be used here. Sprint
runs about 160 kbits here, which is just painful. AT&T, the
evil empire, runs about a megabit. We're in a fringe area
where some receives have problems choosing between EDGE and
HSDPA, so from minute to minute you are either on the good
network or the suck network.

And our dialup still sucks. 21.6KBaud, on a dry day with
no wind. And that's AT&T, too. I talked to a guy running a
T1 up the hill. The CIO that he was running for was going to
be paying 600 a month for it. So much for wires.

I'll be streaming somafm's groove salad until sprint pulls
the plug.

said by Mike2526 :

My Service is still working in Clovis, CA. Anybody else still working??? Aug 3rd is today. Hopefully it keeps on working woooo