Broadband Shuffle

[numberwhun at hotmail.com (Numberwhun *****)]

It stinks that some of us really have no choice in the matter.  I live in 
Plaistow, NH where there is no DSL service, only AT&T Mediaone or 
***blech*** dial-up.  I just cannot go back to a d/u connection.  So, I 
guess we will have to see how there service is.

Jeff Kirkland



>From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
>To: <discuss at blu.org>
>Subject: Re: Broadband Shuffle
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:02:58 -0500
>
>It's amazing. In the past we have had a few periods of outages, and in 
>general customer circus is
>clueless (before and after AT&T). Most of the time the problem corrects 
>itself. It seems that
>Waltham in general is problematical. When I was actively on the newsgroups, 
>most of the
>complaints were coming from people in Waltham.
>
>I would like to see in six months how solid your DSL has been.
>On 20 Dec 2001 at 11:53, David Kramer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, John Abreau wrote:
> >
> > > "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > This should not have much of an effect on us M1X people. Customer 
>service
> > > > at AT&T is worse
> > > > than it was with M1X, but they all suck.
> > > > One question:
> > > > are we:
> > > > A: <user>@mediaone.net
> > > > B: <user>@attbroadband.com
> > > > C: <user>@attcomcast.com (or .net).
> > > > D: All of the above
> > > > E: None of the above
> > >
> > > This type of thing is precisely the reason I don't use my mediaone 
>mailbox.
> > > I figure it's better if my mail goes through a domain that I can 
>control,
> > > so I can be confident it will remain stable over the long term.
> >
> > Or use MediaOne and set your hostname to a domain name you bought, like 
>I
> > did.
> >
> > Note that as of last week I've switched over to Speakeasy DSL.  My
> > cablemodem is on just so I can chuckle every time it loses sync.  I'll
> > cancel the service this week though.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DDDD   David Kramer                   http://thekramers.net
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>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Associate Director
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
>http://www.blu.org
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