[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <md73l3$rao$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
	kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>	kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>> 
>>> And THAT is a problem that you can bring up with the PUC. 
>>
>>Time to leave that alternate reality and come back to the real world.
>>The PUC is there to rubber stamp rate increases and couldn't care less
>>about the customers.
> 
> I have had very good luck getting the PUC involved here in Virginia.  Your
> state may be different.  A letter to your governor can do wonders.

Sorry, he is much to busy raising taxes so they have even more money
to waste to be bothered with my lack of Internet.

> 
>>> If that means burying more cable, or moving some voice lines onto pair
>>> multipliers to make room for your circuit, the PUC can force the issue.
>>
>>Pair multipliers have not been usable since the modem speeds increased
>>beyond 300 baud.  Been there, done that.  There are not going to be any
>>additions or modifications to the cable plant as there is cell service
>>and that meets the requirement.  The fact that no one can afford to use
>>it for real data usage (other than mom and pop surfing the web to see
>>cute pictures of kitties) notwithstanding.
> 
> Read what I wrote.  You take voice lines, you put them on pair multipliers,
> giving you the same number of voice circuits (with somewhat worse quality)
> on fewer pairs.  This frees up pairs that can be used for something else,
> like a leased line.

You are assuming there are voice only users.  Verizon is the only option
for physical media here.  Can you imagine anyone under those conditions
who would be paying for a copper connection stricly for voice service?

I have been over this with them already.  There are no cable pairs left
on the pole.  There is a waiting list of people who want them.

> 
> There are indeed places where there is a constant nynexing of free pairs
> going on, where as soon as anyone notices a pair that doesn't have a dial
> tone on it, it gets stolen for some other service.  This is bad, but it is
> not universal and there are some solutions for that as well (such as keeping
> tone on at all times).

I never said it was universal.  I said I have no available Internet.  I
had it when I lived inside the city.  I cose to leave the city and now
I will have to adapt.  And, I am going to.  I am going to retire, very
likely this summer, as soon as I hear what the retirement buyout offer
from the University is going to be.  And then, I willc are even less
than I do now.  Nothing in my woodshop requires Internet.  Come to think
of it, neither does that MGB waiting to be restored.

bill

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