[Hidden-tech] Comcast Alternatives? Grrrrrr~! *&$@%^^%$

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:51:12 -0400 Mathew Jacobson <mat at 4d4s.org> wrote:

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> Comcast is making me psychotic. 
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> This morning my son and I were watching as a Comcast truck pulled up
> in front of our house. He asked me about the light and the cherry
> picker and what it was doing. I figured it was installing some service
> or another at a neighbor. Turns out it was disconnecting my Internet
> service. 
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> Turns out they have detected "leakage" that they have traced to my
> line and they say that they disconnected it so I would call them and
> they could set a time to come fix it. The earliest time being Thursday.
> They are not however willing to call my boss, my staff or any
> government agencies to explain why I can't work until then. 
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> Shutting the line down is sure an effective way of getting me to
> call, but so would have been ringing the bell. Or just waving to us
> looking out the window. Or a phone call... 
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> Are there any alternatives?  Verizon can only give me 1.5 dsl

Hmmm... This is probably why we need WiredWest... Where people *do* have
broadband, there is little or no competition (which allows 'the only
game in town' to pull this sort of game without consequences).  And of
course there is the rest of us without ANY broadband Internet at all,
stuck with dial-up over crappy phone lines.

It might be possible to have Crocker give you a better DSL connection
than Verizon is willing give you, but it depends on the base quality of
*Verizon's* crappy phone lines.

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