[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Dale Dellutri]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:59:07, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>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.
> 
> Well, you enjoy your learned helpnessness reaction, then.  I'm ordering 
> a frame relay circuit for a test site in a field near Memphis, myself.
> --scott

I know that this is not specifically OpenVMS-related, but I'd
like to hear the outcome of this project.  Could you please change
the subject line when it gets done to something like "Frame relay
circuit near Memphis"?

I had a similar problem a few years ago in a semi-rural location in
Wisconsin near Lake Geneva.  The house was one mile north of a
main road.  There was no cable service to the house; the occupant
used a dish for TV.  We needed to get a somewhat high-speed, always
on internet service to the house.  We finally paid multiple thousands
of dollars to have a pair brought one mile from the main road to
have a 256K bps frame relay circuit to the house.  That was the max
speed possible.

The provider installed a Cisco router meant for a rack, and
required us to provide a POTS line for a USRobotics modem so
that the provider could troubleshoot the link out-of-band.
We had to provide a home router (Linksys, I think).

The service was troublesome, the Cisco router had a loud fan and
it ran so hot that we couldn't leave it in the bookcase where it
was initially installed.  It was put on the floor.  After about
a year of somewhat working internet service, the cleaning lady
ran the vaccuum cleaner into the Cisco router one too many times,
the router died with a loud pop.  We abandoned that setup and
temporarily gave up on internet to the house.

Then some telco built a cell phone tower near the house, and
it now gets internet service using a MiFi cell-phone-like
device.  It works well, and gets surprisingly high speeds,
about 3M bps during the week when fewer people are using
their cell phones, less on the weekends.

And the cost is just $50 per month!

-- 
Dale Dellutri <daQQQle at panQQQix.com> (lose the Q's)