According to www.testmy.net, I'm getting the advertised 20 MB down, 2 MB up,
right on the money on internet with fios. TV, I hear the picture is a bit
clearer, and the phone is useable for the first time in 10 years with out a
nasty hum that at times makes it unusable for days on end and verizon
wouldn't fix it. Fios blows anything else away I've had up to now and
comcast did nothing to us over the years but screw us over on supposed
package deals, not let us take my father's name off the account after he
died because we waited too long to do it, do some crappy work over here to
the point I ended up buying the tools and good RG-6QS and compression F
connectors and doing what they should have been doing myself, which the
family didn't want me doing until they compared the work. The last time we
needed new cable modems form comcast it took 4 tries to get one that worked
and my brother's working on 3 or 4 as well after his last supposed upgrade
in his apartment. I watched with verizon did here and it was very good, and
we're happy with it. I'm sure all the cable and phone companies will go with
fiber optic soon anyway, with in the next few years, I prefer to think,
we're ahead of things there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: new email address
> On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:39 AM, mike wrote:
>>>
>> Why verizon ???????
>
> I'd ask the same thing, having just left Verizon (1.5 MB down/384K up)
> for Roadrunner (Time/Warner, claiming 7 MB down/384K up, but my
> upstream speed seems to be a bit closer to 512K and downstream speed
> is just hella fast). Of course, mine was a move from DSL to cable. I
> can think of a couple reasons why one might leave Comcast:
>
> 1) I've seen reports lately of some pretty nasty bandwidth throttling
> an port blocking and stuff like that, presumably to limit P2P file
> sharing apps such as bittorrent. I've seen reports of lots of ISP's
> doing this, but Comcast is one that jumped out a lot.
>
> 2) John got Fios. It brings in digital TV and high speed Internet
> access over fiber (as opposed to over copper as DSL does), and claims
> to be screaming fast, although I haven't seen any numbers yet. I'd
> probably do the same thing, except Erie doesn't get Fios.
>
> One reason I switched (apart from cable posting higher speed, that is,
> until everyone in the neighborhood sucks up all the bandwidth, I
> suppose) is that Verizon's Web page just really pissed me off
> recently. Apart from it just being an annoying and difficult page in
> general (their "screen reader friendly page" is no better), one day I
> went to see when my one-year commitment was up, and it said I might be
> eligible for an upgrade. Hmm, better speed maybe? So I went to see
> what they had for me. Nope, just new equipment to be charged for (and
> the router they sent me had what has to be the worst interface I've
> ever seen). No, no upgrade, thanks, so I went to close the page.
> Except they pulled some trick where I couldn't close my browser. The
> page was holding me hostage! That isn't nice.
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