[Coco] Stories of Internet Connections - was:Color LOGO

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Verizon may work great back home, it's the pits in New Jersey.  Any amount of rain (and we get a lot more rain in Jersey than back home in Los Angeles) FIOS shits itself.  I don't have it at the house, but it's what we have at the office (where I'm just a clerk, I gave up on tech support and system administration, too much liver damage -- thee and me first met at the downtown LA computer center when my (ex)wife and your fiancee were working at the repair shop down near LAX).  FIOS is crap (or maybe Verizon is).  At the house, though we've had our differences, I'll stick with Comcast for a few more weeks.  For me, it works.  (Unlike my dishwasher, which died this week, so it's time I haul my ass into the kitchen and make up for it -- and I really, really hate washing dishes, but I can't afford a replacement just now).

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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

----- "Steve Bjork" <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:

> From: "Steve Bjork" <6809er at srbsoftware.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2010 12:36:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Coco] Stories of Internet Connections - was:Color LOGO
>
> First, please change the Subject line when you change the Subject!
> 
> As for Internet connections, Verizon has two services (three is you 
> count dial-up) out here in Los Angeles.
> The older DLS is a dieing service with nothing but problems with their
> 
> hardware and customer service. I have spent 9 hours over two days
> trying 
> to get my DSL turned back on after they disconnected it by accident. 
> (Then they charged me $160 for early disconnect fee.)
> 
> |And there is Verizon FIOS, a bright story with 21th century
> technology 
> and great customer service!
> 
> FIOS is fiber optic cable to the home.  While some other services
> (AT&T) 
> just run fiber optic cable to your neighborhood and the last few
> hundred 
> feet via Cat 5E or 6 cable, FIOS is 100% optical to the side of your 
> house.  Once there, a box splits it into Telephone, TV and Internet 
> services.  Both TV and Phone services are great with better quality 
> anything that else out here!