bcunningh
join:2005-04-01
Seattle, WA
| reply to keyboard5684
Re: Admitted Internet Aceess thief only had 3 choices - boo hoo
said by keyboard5684  :3 choices? The article really said 1 choice. Verizon only became a choice after PR teams found out he was a reporter. Choice 1: Comcast
Choice 2: RCN (they told him he could only get dial-up from them)
Choice 3: Satelite
Choice 4: Verizon (aparently they can get him DSL but I wonder how fast it will be with him that far from the CO.)
said by keyboard5684 :Satelite is not a choice but I just do not feel like arguing that point unless someone else does. Satelite is a choice. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not a choice. If you used logic then Comcast wouldn't have been a choice for the reporter. |
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keyboard5684
join:2001-08-01
Youngsville, PA
 ·Teliax VOIP
 ·WestPAnet Inc.
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| Choices of broadband, you even said 3 choices of broadband in your post, now its 4?
RCN is not broadband, they will only offer him dial-up.
Verizon told him "no", they could not provide service.
Again, he would not have this option if someone there did not catch on and decide to specifically "extend" service to him.
So throughout the article, till the end, he had valid reason to complain about Verizon. I too have been told I could not get Verizon DSL at my business which is 1200 ft from the CO. However at my house, 17,000 ft I could same CO.
Maybe this is another discussion but is satellite really broadband? Have you ever had satellite? I have in several locations and cannot say it was broadband. In 3 different sites I never got over 256/46, and that was max. Latency is part of the argument as well. Plus, a lot of places like apartment complexes or managed communities will not allow a dish, period. |
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pb5k
more cowbell
Premium
join:2005-11-16
Glendale, AZ
·Cox HSI
| reply to bcunningh
said by bcunningh :Satelite is a choice. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not a choice. If you used logic then Comcast wouldn't have been a choice for the reporter. It has little to do with whether we "like it". Satellite is an expensive choice ($600 upfront, as mentioned in the article) that is unusable for many popular applications - VOIP, VPN, gaming. Not to mention the bandwidth caps. 
Your choice 2 is moot - article writer was looking for HSI.
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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said by keyboard5684 :Plus, a lot of places like apartment complexes or managed communities will not allow a dish, period. »www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html 
-SC
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