Verizon is not building out any more FiOS service. Their shareholders nixed it. WiredWest (http://www.wired-west.net) is working to bring Fiber to the Premises to *everyone* in Western Massachusetts who wants it - have a look. Daniel On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Kiernan G-S <greenearthcomputer at gmail.com>wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Generally the charter/comcast agreements with the state dont allow > this. They own the cable lines they have paid to lay in the town as > far as I know. > > The better solution would be to find a way to encourage/fund verizon > bringing in their competitive FiOS services. > > ~Kiernan > > Head Technician - Green Earth Computers > www.greenearthcomputers.us > greenearthcomputer at gmail.com > 413-282-TECH > > > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jason Miranda <jason at sampw.com> wrote: > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's > area. > > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Wanted to check in with anyone here in the Easthampton area who has > Charter Business Internet. We've been experiencing sporadic outages over the > last 48 hours. Can't get any answers from Charter other than they are aware > of a problem with a node in our area, are working on it, but cannot give an > ETA. > > > > I've had Charter Business for about 3 mos. I thought paying for the > business-quality rather than residential would get me better service, but > the quality of the service and the customer service has been very low. To > the point that my opinion is that Charter's regard for its business > customers is as low as the quality of its service. > > > > We connect to another business network via VPN here and we've experienced > brief outages or hiccups during a typical business day that the VPN > connection breaks about 5–10 times. > > > > I'm wondering if Easthampton would consider allowing Comcast to offer > service in the area. Is there a committee through City Hall that deals with > these negotiates these relationships? I read Easthampton's masterplan for > the city when we were going through the home buying process. I was impressed > with the vision, but It seems like if they want to fulfill the goals > outlined there they need to be an attractive place to live and work for > telecommuters and people working from home offices. Based on the terrible > service I've experienced with Charter, it doesn't seem to methat they are is > the partner to help Easthampton achieve its long-term goals. > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > > Jason Miranda > > Spoke & Wheel | www.sampw.com > > publishing and media services > > (ph) 413.203.1123 > > (fax) 617.206.9516 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20101104/e3483819/attachment.html