In the past several years my service has been very solid with the
exception of cars hitting the poles and trucks puling down the wires.
The pole also was used for FIOS so that FIOS would have been down too as
was power.
On 01/22/2013 02:53 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:26 -0500
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
Coax vs. fibre doesn't matter until weather gets into the exterior
junction boxes. This is bad for Comcast since their coax connectors are
cheap and they
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:47:17 +
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
If there's any reliability difference between cable vs fios, it's not
noticeable.
So your anecdote is that FiOS and Comcast are equivalent. My anecdote
is that Comcast is inferior to FiOS. If our anecdotes
I live in Newton and FIOS always seems to be slow on Sundays.
jay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
Coax vs. fibre
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:06:00 -0500
Jay Kramer krame...@gmail.com wrote:
I live in Newton and FIOS always seems to be slow on Sundays.
That's just Sunday being Sunday. :)
But seriously, run a speedtest.net check today, then run it again on
Sunday around the same time of day. Compare the
Tom Metro wrote:
Matt Shields wrote:
While I would love to punish the companies that abuse datacaps in
favor of profit. Some people do not have much of a choice when it
comes to what service is available.
That was the point of my question...what are the alternatives?
Coincidentally a
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro
How is Verizon any better than the cable
company? Essentially the same model. If you happen to live somewhere
with a good provider, this should be the best option from
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro
How is Verizon any better than the cable
company? Essentially the same model. If you
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:46:46 +
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
If your objection to cable is the business/marketing model, Fios is
no better. They *are* the cable company. Just like comcast, rcn,
etc. Which we used before fios.
This is accurate from the business and
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] data caps
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:46:46 +
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
If your objection to cable is the business/marketing model
On 01/22/2013 11:50 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:46:46 +
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
If your objection to cable is the business/marketing model, Fios is
no better. They *are* the cable company. Just like comcast, rcn,
etc. Which we used before
On 01/22/2013 12:39 PM, Steve Harris wrote:
Just the other day Comcast showed up in my neighborhood in West
Cambridge stringing new fiber cable up and down the street. It makes
sense for Comcast to move towards a non-shared-bandwidth model to
compete with FIOS.
Before Comcast, I knew the VP
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:26 -0500
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Both Comcast and FIOS are on the same outside poles. Comcast is mostly
We have no poles in my neighborhood. It's all buried. Comcast and
Verizon share the same tunnels under the streets. The ways are owned by
either Verizon
Matt Shields wrote:
While I would love to punish the companies that abuse datacaps in
favor of profit. Some people do not have much of a choice when it
comes to what service is available.
That was the point of my question...what are the alternatives?
...you either need to go with Clear.com
On 01/08/2013 03:26 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 01/08/2013 03:13 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
If you really expect to reach near 100% coverage of households,
inevitably you would still need government funding for areas where the
population is too sparse. That still doesn't necessarily mean government
Lets move on from DRM and GPL to another topic we all love - data caps!
The clips and commentary below became too long, so I'll provide a tl;dr
summary up top, and pose a question for discussion. Here's the premise:
data caps are not about solving network congestion, they're about
increasing
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
Lets move on from DRM and GPL to another topic we all love - data caps!
The clips and commentary below became too long, so I'll provide a tl;dr
summary up top, and pose a question for discussion. Here's the premise:
data
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields
profit sharing. Quincy happened to strike a good deal with Comcast and
they do not want to renegotiate with them to allow competitors because
their percentage per
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:31:20 -0500
Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think Comcast and other's should pay a fee for
using public polls or digging in the ground to run their lines. The
Utility poles and underground utility ways are not public property even
if the
On 01/08/2013 10:50 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:31:20 -0500
Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think Comcast and other's should pay a fee for
using public polls or digging in the ground to run their lines. The
Utility poles and underground utility
Subject: Re: [Discuss] data caps
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:50:10 -0500
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:31:20 -0500
Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think Comcast and other's should pay a fee for
using public polls or digging in the ground to run their lines. The
Utility poles
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen
Another option:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-
matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/
I know from past experience that the
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