RE: OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!!
- From: "Andrew English" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:26:04 -0500
John,
17500 miles from the CO, is that suppose to be feet maybe? Anyhow you
should call Verizon or whoever your ISP is and ask them to do a loop
test, if that exists in the USA, and tell you how many miles are you are
from the CO, then convert it Kilometers. If you are more than 3Km from
the CO the only way the ISP (be that Verizon or a third party) will be
able to improve your signal is if Verizon installs a RDSLAM in your
area. RDSLAM's bring areas that have are outside the DSL limit closer to
the CO's. I too would also be interested in seeing what your line stats
are, but I am willing to bet you are 5+ Km from the CO.
You should all to Toronto Canada. :-)
I live 2.4Km from the CO, and have a RDSLAM in my neighborhood. Bell
Canada is upgrading everyone onto RDSLAM's which is suppose to be done
by the end of 2005, but you know Teleco's some times these things take
longer. Anyhow my Alcatel SpeedTouch Home shows that it can easily grab
8Megs from the CO, though it's currently capped at 40332/800.
And just as Verizon is moving to offer, if they haven't already, fiber
xDSL(?) service, Bell is moving to VDSL and ADSL2+. ADSL2+ is being
testing outside of Ontario; it has potenal for 26Mbit-sec/2Mbit-sec over
your normal phone line.
Regards,
Andrew
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From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:32 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!!
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I also am landlocked by Verizon. Funny, I called Covad for a ADSL line
to my home office to replace cable. They came out and did everything
they could to get it working, including installing a signal booster on
the pole, all to no avail. The best speed was 384/64. I am at 17500 from
the CO. No mind you, Covad was going to be the ISP, but of course the
copper is Verizon's. About a month later, a Verizon salesperson is
calling me trying to get me to sign up for DSL. I tell him it has been
tried, but is not feasible. He says he can get it done. I just laughed
and hung up on him.
So, for my workstation that I do all my work on, I use Cable. The Only
DSL I can reliably get is IDSL, and that costs over $100 per month for
192k, which is what I have my secondary server on.
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:05 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!!
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If you had tried to either send me mail or get something from
ISATools.org, you may have noticed some rather irritating non-responses
today.
This is because my DSL line is acting up (consumer-grade service;
waddaya expect?).
I've logged literally hours of downtime today and when I tried to get
some help from Verizon, all I got was either "we're closed for the
holidays" or "you're not using Verizon for your ISP, so we can't help
you". This is customer service?!?
If only it were as easy as the Qwest commercials made it sound, I'd
shift telco carriers in a New York micro-second.
My ISP (ZipCon, if you're in the Seattle area) put in some serious
overtime for me today, but all to no avail. Needless to say, we're both
PO'd in the extreme.
If this is what deregulation gets us, it sucks big time.
I'm almost considering moving to Business Cable (T-1 costs ~$800/mo
between ISP and telco fees)...
<GRRRR>
..at least I got the cables and adapters I needed to get some basic
sound paths built for my studio...
Alcohol; mass quantities of alcohol...
That's what's needed, here...
Jim Harrison
MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/
http://isatools.org
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