Count my blessings broadband wise? Not entirely, Rob. I signed up for
Verizon DSL back in *JUNE* and still haven't gotten it here in Gibsonton
yet. Of course, I'm not currently *PAYING* for it, thank G-d, but
unfortunately, my choices as of right now are TWC or dial up
service......and my understanding is that Verizon DSL does take into account
all it's customers that use Linux. :-)
Anita
"Robin (Roblimo) Miller" wrote:
> Roadrunner is far from perfect, but this area is very lucky on the
> broadband front compared to Maryland, where Comcast dominates cable and
> DSL is not widely available.
>
> When @home was Comcast's (only) cable Internet connection provider, DNS,
> email, and member page servers constantly went down -- and @home would
> *not* provide credit/refunds for time offline.
>
> Service call wait time ranged between 5 and 15 days.
>
> Now that @home has (deservedly) gone broke, Comcast has raised prices
> and is launching a program to detect people running connection-sharing
> devices and charge them extra for each connected computer. Bandwidth is
> capped; 128K upload max. Ports blocked. 384K download cap, but you
> hardly ever got that speed anyway.
>
> And you now wait a mimimum of 45 minutes on hold for phone support, up
> from @home's minimum 30 minutes.
>
> Not visible to the public but evil: they cut pay to installer &
> troubleshooter techs -- independent contractors -- by 20% without
> notice. Tim, my oldest stepdaughter's off-and-on boyfriend, is one of
> their subcontractors. He's talking about moving ot W. Palm, where he has
> family, and going with AOLTW, because he says they treat their service
> people better than Comcast.
>
> And a choice, as in Earthlink? Ha! Comcast has no such plans. Of course,
> AOLTW is only doing it because it was an FTC merger condition, but at
> least it exists here.
>
> And in MD, where the telco infrastructure is much older than here, DSL
> is not widely available.
>
> Count your broadband blessing, Tampa Bay people!
>
> - Robin
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