 MsGeekWe Jam Econo On This Ship, Sailor
join:2001-06-06
Panorama City, CA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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| Ok, who's next... Let me put it into perspective what it's been like to be in the East San Fernando Valley, CA and have cable.
1989: the franchise is owned by United Cable Television, the company that put the cable in after literally decades of waiting in this part of the Valley. Cable had come to the East San Fernando Valley only a couple of years prior to that. The West Valley had cable since the 1970s, and the folks living south of Ventura Boulevard in the pricey parts of the Santa Monica Mountains had cable since the mid-1960s. It took a court order to get cable out here.
c.1991 or so: United Cable TV becomes United Artists Cable, owned not by the MGM/UA motion picture studio but the United Artists movie theatre chain.
c.1995?: After a few years of operating as a defacto franchise of TCI, the UA Cable signs finally go down and the TCI signs go up.
March, 1999: Century buys TCI, then Adelphia buys Century. The Adelphia signs go up.
April 5th, 2002: Adelphia announces intentions to sell 50% of its cable franchises, including this little backwater system in the East San Fernando Valley, CA, USA. Fixer-upper, charming, rustic mickey-moused "digital" cable system, priced to sell.
?, 2002: Best case scenario: Adelphia of the East San Fernando Valley sold to Time Warner. Entire Valley under Time Warner, we get Road Runner service, an orderly upgrade plan is drawn up. I saw the Time Warner West Valley upgrade in action...it was like a well-oiled machine. Damn smooth, with updates printed in the Daily News TV book every week.
Worst case scenario: AT&T buys Adelphia of the East San Fernando Valley. Hass family cancels cable service, goes back to rooftop aerials and dialup modem service.
Sucks to be me, doesn't it? 
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 JYoungG L 2814
join:2000-06-13
Sherman Oaks, CA | Hey, I'm in the same boat. At least I can get DSL though...... |
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| i really dont mind which company buys out adelphia as logn as its one of the following:
cox
time warner/aol
optimum
anyone of these companies are mnore reliable then pos adelphia, and MAYBE they will be able to lay out fiber optic lines withint the next two years, cause we all know that Adelphia sure as hell couldnt do it in southern california. Bottom line: screw adelphia...hope they go down....hope any company gets a good deal on adelphias cable system...and they finsih off the work adelphia started. Ive been waiting for cable in my area for over 3 years and i am just pissed...not dsl/cable available. Only satellite and wireless, both expensive as hell and not worth the price (installtion is liek 300 bux +). Cable is basically my only solution...I would alsop be happy if adelphia stayed in the business as long as they finsihed setting up cable internet in my area cause they are ogign to have to lay out brand new wiring troughout the city so faster connection for me.. |
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MsGeekWe Jam Econo On This Ship, Sailor
join:2001-06-06
Panorama City, CA Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·DSL EXTREME
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said by JYoung:
Hey, I'm in the same boat. At least I can get DSL though......
I can get DSL...it's just limited because my inside wiring is crappy and old. ('50s vintage) I had GTE (now Verizon) Bronze Plus service which is 768 down/128 up max. Best speed I could manage was 384. It didn't help that my ISP was Flashcom (Rest In Pieces...in Hell!) Flashcom would say it was GTE's prob, GTE would blame Flashcom, and thus would begin an orgy of finger-pointing. I get depressed thinking about that.
At least with cable I can get decent (1.5Mbps and up) speeds, particularly in the morning.
Ms. Geek
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oh sure just start flamin on adelphia why not flame on your phone company always adelphias fault.
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JYoungG L 2814
join:2000-06-13
Sherman Oaks, CA | reply to MsGeek
said by MsGeek:
I can get DSL...it's just limited because my inside wiring is crappy and old. ('50s vintage) I had GTE (now Verizon) Bronze Plus service which is 768 down/128 up max. Best speed I could manage was 384. It didn't help that my ISP was Flashcom (Rest In Pieces...in Hell!) Flashcom would say it was GTE's prob, GTE would blame Flashcom, and thus would begin an orgy of finger-pointing. I get depressed thinking about that.
At least with cable I can get decent (1.5Mbps and up) speeds, particularly in the morning.
It might be worth it to see about getting a home run wiring to the MPOE installed to a POTS splitter if you try DSL again (I'd suggest DSLExtreme). That way, you can bypass your internal wiring.....
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