Thanks. Ill try Crocker. Mat Please pardon brevity and typos. Sent from cell phone. On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:51:12 -0400 Mathew Jacobson <mat at 4d4s.org> wrote: > >> >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> >> ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> >> >> >> Comcast is making me psychotic. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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... >> >> 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. > >> >> >> >> >> Mat, Susan, and Foster >> 43 Pondview Dr >> Amherst, MA 01002 >> 413-230-3282 >> >> >> >> >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com > Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ > () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments > > >