Tough for the landlord, but better for you since if you can't get a working demo up front, there's no guarantee you'll ever get one.
In my neighborhood - telco=Verizon - we've been trying for more than 6 years and STILL can't get DSL - but peeps less than 1/2 a mile from me can get DSL (albeit from a repeater, not direct from the CO). Can't use satellite TV either, because we live at the bottom of a ravine with no line-of-sight. After about 4 years of hounding the local gov't, all we're able to get here is HSI through cable (Adelphia) and it costs a bloody fortune with no other competition. _jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:48 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Testing for an internet connection.. Are you looking for apartments that have a working connection thru an ISP or ones that are wired but not active account? If it is the former, I think that would be a very difficult thing to put on the landlord - you are basically having them be responsible for the Internet connection and activity of their renters. Dunno if I would want that as a landlord... On 7/5/06, Veech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any type of tool available that will test for internet > connectivity? > > I work for a company that provides furnishings in apartments for corporate > travelers. Often they require live internet connections when they move in. > Sometimes the apartments are already connected, sometimes they aren't. Is > there any type of small hand-held device that will detect if a phone line is > 'live" with an internet connection? We need to find a way to test the > apartments before these tenants move in instead of waiting until they try to > connect then get nasty phone calls when they can't. > > thanks for any recs... > > -- Brian
