[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[John Francini]

I've had Comcast since it was AT&T Brodband, and have not had any  
problems with them dinging me for "too much downloading" or anything  
like that.

Admittedly, I don't fall into the "gigabytes of data a night" type of  
downloader, but I have pulled things like full Fedora distributions,  
occasional DVD images (like the Star Trek fan-developed Original  
Series episodes), software updates, etc. without ever hearing from  
the alleged Comcast Download Police.

And the speed can't really be beat, unless and until FiOS comes to  
Nashua.

j


On 5 Dec 2006, at 11:44, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> "
>> "
>> " I can't even *get* 3/512 from Verizon, unless they roll out FIOS  
>> here.
>>
>> fios is coming.  my aunt down in bedford got a fios tv flyer despite
>> the fact that fios isn't available quite yet.
>
> Yup, they're rolling FiOS in Bedford, but can't give me an  
> availability
> date here.  Besides, I've been told Verizon's FiOS offerings have
> exactly the same limitations as their residential DSL -- still  
> can't get
> static IP, still have filtered ports, and "support" still doesn't know
> their ass from a hole in the ground.
>
>
>> i've been with galaxy - gis.net - since about '97 but only on dsl  
>> about
>> 6 mo.  so far the only outage i've had was when someone hit a pole
>> outside my house...  i pay $20/mo for 768/128 + voip and $10/mo for
>> static ip + dns; rolled my number from verizon and unplugged them.
>> they'd been ~$30/mo alone, for a fairly basic plan.
>>
>> galaxy now cover a good part of the east coast, down to philly at  
>> least,
>> but they're based in newton ma and it isn't hard to reach unix-savvy
>> tech support.
>
> I'll check'em out in case Speakeasy falls through.
>
>
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