[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

John Francini francini at mac.com
Tue Dec 5 09:58:47 CST 2006


Probably a dumb-ass question, but here goes.  Where's 603-429-xxxx?

One place I checked indicated it was Litchfield, NH -- one of the  
former Adelphia territories that's now Comcast.  Why not switch to  
them instead of Verizon?

j, in Nashua, with a bunch of friends who live in Adelphia territory...



On 5 Dec 2006, at 7:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:14:34PM -0800, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>>> Out here (Seattle area) we can split it up; I get my DSL line  
>>> from Qwest,
>>> but my ISP services from Blarg (now known as "Avvanta").  Works  
>>> great.
>>
>> Amazingly enough, I"ve gotten *better* service from SBC since they  
>> Borged
>> AT&T [0].
>>
>> I just can't beat $17.95/month for 3/512 DSL.  I've had maybe two  
>> outages
>> in the past six to nine months that I can remember, and none of them
>> lasting more than thirty minutes.
>
> I can't even *get* 3/512 from Verizon, unless they roll out FIOS here.
>
> They basically have three offerings:  1.5/768, 1.5/384, 768/128.   
> At our
> current CO distance, we're capped at 1.5/384.
>
>
> -- 
>  Same geek, same site, new location
>  Phil Stracchino                     Landline: 603-429-0220
>  phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net         Mobile: 603-216-7037
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