Holy Moly, Not only did I once live in Parsippany, but I was a mailman there
for 2.5 years.......
-george
>From: "Erika L Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Internet Access?
>Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 00:28:29 -0400
>
>Another lurker! Let's beat him with a stale muffin!!
>
>Hi Ron, ... I use ISDN.
>
>A little background about my abysmal internet access....
>
>The township I live in, Parsippany-Troy Hills, is a corporate mecca. It
>covers 25 square miles of land and houses a population of approximately
>50,000 people. Among its diverse attributes is the extensive transportation
>network. The Township maintains access to Route I-80, I-287, I-280, US 46
>and US 202 as well as State Highways 10 and 53. It is located merely 25
>miles from Newark International Airport and is only 28 miles west of New
>York City.
>
>It can take as long as 45 minutes to get from one end of my town to
>another.
>
>Parsippany-Troy Hills is home to Pfizer; Nabisco; CIT; American Home
>Products; Lucent Technologies; Dialogic, now part of INTEL; Tivoli (used to
>be division of IBM or still is, I don't remember); Prudential; Cendant;
>ADP;
>NY Life; Chubb Life Insurance; Hoffman La Roche and State Farm is building
>a
>beautiful 400,000 sq. ft. class "A" office building. Not to mention
>numerous
>strip malls and other assorted smaller businesses.
>
>My point is, with all of the corporate businesses piling up around me,
>there
>should be an abundance of great, high-speed internet access plans. Ha!
>Cable?! Not available on my street. DSL? I'm about 300 yards too far from
>the station. T1? Please, to have it run to my office would cost a bloody
>fortune.
>
>So what am I stuck with? ISDN. Well, at least it's not a 56k dial-up. And
>working in studio isn't too bad. But it costs me about $120 a month on
>average.
>
>So that's my internet access saga.
>
>Erika
>(with a *K*)
>
>"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease
>to
>be amused."
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Connelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:27 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Internet Access?
>
>
>Howdy All,
>
>Sorry to introduce levity here, but...
>
>What are some of you US based, urban-located, home office
>developers doing for Internet access??
>
>I just discovered that my 2+ year arrangement with my DSL
>provider is about to come to an end. My provider (Zyan
>Communications) is filing for bankruptcy. I've been paying $50/mo
>for a business-level SDSL service at 384k with 32 IPs.
>
>I recognize this was a land-office deal, but I'm having a hard time
>coming to grips with $189/mo for the same thing when I "transition"
>my account to the provider who bought Zyan's access (DSL.net).
>That $189/mo seems to be close to the going rate out there...
>
>So what's everyone else doing?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>Ron
>(driven out of lurk mode with a stick...)
>
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