Speakeasy alternatives

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:51:48 -0400
"Boland, John" <jboland at citistreetonline.com> wrote:

> jerry, sad to say fios is not available in the entire city of boston!
> i just checked my house and it is not available, as they have told for
> almost the last two years that i've been checking.  not an apartment,
> not a condo, a real free-standing single occupant dwelling.
But, as I did point out it is available. I live in Newton, and DSL has
never been available in my neighborhood. They tend to string the cables
in locations where they will get a high signup rate. it should be
available shortly. 

BTW: as FIOS expands and Comcast loses subscribers, I'm sure that
Comcast will improve their upstream bandwidth as they did with
downstream. When I do my bandwidth checks it is not unusual for me to
see downstream rates up to 20Mbps. Upstream is always constant at
slightly less than 384K. 

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