[geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

  I've already tried that... I even had a sit-down meeting
with Adelphia's district manager. The end result was
"No Way".  She insisted that the installation had to
be carried out by "Qualified" installers. They absolutely
refused to hook up to a customer-supplied cable.  I even
tried to get them to install to a shed located near the
pedistal, but she considerd the fiber drop  that I was
going to run to the shed as a customer-supplied cable
extension)

  I then proceeded to complain at a county cable board
meeting about the installation costs, but was told that
$4.00 a foot was "reasonable" and that the contract
between the county and Adelphia did not put any
restrictions on it (I even procured a copy of the
cable contract... they weren't lying)...

What really hurts about all this is that when I
bought my house back in `92, the previous owner
told me that the cable company had offered to
run a line up to it for free. He absolutely
refused (He was an "anti-TV" proponent).  When
I bought the house, I inquired about it and 
they told me it would now be $1.00 a foot...
but being a new home owner, I didn't have the
spare cash at the time, so I put it off for a
year. The next year when I had the cash, I tried
to submit an order, and was informed that it
would now be $3.00 a foot (The cable deregulation
act had just passed a few months earlier). Now
it's $4.00 a foot.  I give up.

So, as a result, I've been exploring alternatve
connection schemes.

BTW, is anyone here on the corporate board at Adelphia ;-)

-al-  "Connectionless in Fredericksburg" (Sounds like
a movie title, doesn't it :-)

-acorda at 1bigred.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kirby [mailto:kris at catonic.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:52 PM
> To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: Re: [geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
> > I've checked the other alternatives... DSL (not available),
> > Wireless (not available), Cable (available, but with my 1,200 foot
> > driveway and an absurd $4.00/ft installation charge, it is
> > unaffordable... and yes, I've complained about exorbitant 
> installation
> > costs to the district manager of Adelphia, and even brought 
> the issue
> > up at the local cable commission meeting to no avail... 
> their general
> > attitude was "Adelphia says thats what it costs...sorry")
> 
> Fuck 'em. Run your own cable down the power poles (1/2" 
> hardline is seldom
> more than $1.25 per foot) and meet them on the edge of the 
> property. Then
> you've got a demarc and they no reason to enter your house.
> 
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
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