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

[Mathew Jacobson]

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:
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>> 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. 
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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. 
>> 
>> 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.
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> 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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