[Linux-Anyway] Re: Feel like messing things up
- From: Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:20:13 -0500
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:56:26AM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
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> Isn't cable available either? Over here in Europe we get the (perhaps false)
> impression that everyone in the US has access to some form of broadband.
Only in certain parts of the country. Here in NYC, things become
available more quickly than elsewhere.
However, Verizon has gotten very aggressive with their somewhat poor
DSL--when they call me, in the hopes that "the call is being monitored
for customer satisfaction" I tell them that firstly, as they drove all
the other suppliers out of business (because everyone had to, in the
end, rely upon Verizon for line access, and Verizon was usually
unhelpful) morally I have my doubts about subscribing with them.
Secondly, I've had various friends ask me to help them set it up--in
almost every case, I had to call their tech support (which I didn't have
to do with either of my DSL providers) because something was a bit
borked with the software, thirdly, as they use pppOe and the awful
winPoet, their service is far less good than the other DSL providers
I've used, and lastly, as they don't support Linux at all, their 24/7
support, which usually involves quite a lot of hold time is pretty
useless to me. :)
DSL is also, IIRC, contingent upon your physical distance from a
switching center. Cable too is dependent upon your location. While
broadband is certainly far more prevalent than it was a few years ago,
there are still many areas of the country where people are reliant upon
dial-up.
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Scott
Buffy: I can't put it off any longer. I have to meet my
terrible fate.
Giles: What?
Buffy: Biology.
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