[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[John Francini]

It's funny.  For Comcast/Roadrunner/Verizon, they seem to think "it's  
all about their value-added content".

It may be for some people.

For those of us who Know What We're Doing(tm), which would include  
this list and everyone I work with, it's merely a damned pipe.

I don't care for any of their 'value added' crap.

In fact, if I could get a "pipe only" service with the same  
bandwidth, I'd do so in a heartbeat.

As for trenchers -- my guess is that, at least in your area, they  
don't actually own a trencher, but rent one when they have a  
sufficient amount of work built up.  Then they'll do all the  
trenching at once, and return the trencher.  Or the trenching  
equipment might be shared amongst several Comcast systems in your  
area, and they had to wait until it was 'their turn' to use it.

Too bad they didn't put the original cable in a conduit -- it might  
have survived the ground shift.

j



On 7 Dec 2006, at 9:12, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> Date: 2006/12/05 Tue AM 11:28:33 CST
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online
>
>> John Francini wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Hmmm......   if I go and look at Comcast's Internet service plans  
>> (for
>> which I have to start up Intarweb Exploiter, because their crappy  
>> site
>> is so broken it apparently only works with Exploiter), I discover  
>> that
>> when you look at package details, they say if you're networking  
>> multiple
>> home computers they must all be Macs running OS9 through 10.2 (but  
>> not
>> 10.0), or Windows 98SE through XP.
>
> I've not read it, but I have Comcast Broadband at home (15 months  
> now, no serious problems [0]), and I *assume* that is all they will  
> support. It is odd that it doesn't even mention devices like  
> Linksys/Netgear routers, since once you put that in line, it  
> doesn't matter what is behind it...
>
> Comcast sends you a CD-ROM full of supposed "goodness" which is not  
> needed - I just plugged in the right info in my router and was off  
> and running...
>
> Lionel
>
> [0] Except for the time the cable *broke* in my front yard (ground  
> shifted and snapped the cable underground, no digging in yard to  
> break it). Anyway, it took over two months for them to get a  
> trencher out to bury a new cable run from the pedestal to my  
> house... After running an above-ground cable the day I called in  
> the initial problem, then comng out two more times over the next  
> two months to replace a cable cut by the guy cutting our yard...
>
> I didn't know trenchers were so scarce...
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