[rescue] Boy, am I glad I didn't switch to Cable modemservic e...

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

Yep, I understand that if I had offered to actually route
_their_ cable up to my house, they might have had an issue
with it.   What I actually offered was to provide a cable
"termination" point within 100 ft.  A cable modem would be
installed at that point, and the only thing that would be
routed up to my house would be a fiber run for ethernet
only. This would have had -0- impact on their network...
unfortunately, I couldn't get past the marketing types
who only understood that I was installing my _own_ cable,
to talk to a technically competent representative.

Of course, it could also simply be that there are _no_
technically competent people in decision making
positions at Adelphia to talk to...  :-)

-al-


> -----Original Message-----
> From: s at avoidant.org [mailto:s at avoidant.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:04 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Boy, am I glad I didn't switch to Cable
> modemservic e...
> 
> 
> Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
> 
> > road.  I've argued with them, and even offered
> > to trench my own cable, or provide a connection
> > point close to the road where they can install
> 
> 
> That won't do at all. My mom's apartment building is a renovated
> factory, and during the renovation they wired the entire building for
> cable. The cable company then refused to drop a connection in because
> they said the wiring was "substandard" and that they wouldn't accept
> anything they hadn't done themselves.
> 
> So Mom got another company to put a satellite dish on the 
> roof and they
> happily piped the signal to all 245 apartments. Cable comany's loss.
> About half the apts have DSL now too. Bigger loss for the cable co. I
> can't pretend to be upset for them. It's their own greed that 
> lost them
> the business. They thought Mom would fold on the wiring.
> 
> 
> ---sambo
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