Wow. Verizon is basically a network company and they manage it like
this... I may just be a systems analyst but I would think a
throttling method would be better served than a disconnect.
What 11 year old manages their network?
Cheers,
Matthew Rogers
207-242-8146
On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net>
wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
> So today, after a month I *finally* got to speak to a verizon tech.
> He checked my equipment and found that I had full speed service, and
> that is my problem.
>
> Verizon doesn't have enough backbone access to service everyone they
> have sold service to so they randomly disconnect the top and middle
> tier users to save bandwidth. Saves them a bundle which shows up as
> management salaries and perks. Works for the guys at the top.
>
> He said if I cut my service to low tier, about 767 or thereabouts, I
> would not notice the speed difference and they don't disconnect the
> little guys so on average I would have *more* access.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? So any of you use the low speed verizon?
> --
> Regards,
>
> Pete
> http://pete-theisen.com/
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