Connectivity woes in Boston

[se at panix.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

I had DSL while in Crappyvision of Brookline territory.  Moved to Waltham,
and selected RCN (because they carried WGN and M1 did not).  Only had two
cable-modem outages, each one affecting the state.

Scott

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Chris Janicki wrote:

> > Earthlink claims I'm close enough to the CO, whereas Verizon claims I am
> not.
>
>
> Verizon may be telling the truth.  From what I've learned, the DSL
> providers only put their equipment in select central offices (CO).
> Earthlink may have their equipment in a CO closer to you.
>
> Regardless, beware of long DSL spans.  I had perfect DSL service when I
> lived in Brighon (100% underground cables, about 1 mile from the CO).
> But I was down 5-50% of the time when I moved to an area with overhead
> lines over 2 miles from the CO.  I had technicians at my home at least 6
> times but no one could fix it, so I went to AT&T Broadband cable and have
> been happy ever since.
>

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