On 3/11/2012 10:34 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:18:17 AM Stuart Stevenson did opine: > > >> Gentlemen, >> >> IPv6 is supposed to be internet live in June of this year. >> We (the shop) thought connectivity would no later than June. >> We thought we would get a head start on the knowledge curve. >> We have an ipv6 cable modem. >> We are ipv6 throughout the shop. >> We just found out Wichita will not have internet ipv6 for another 18 >> months. My mother, in a small town 100 miles from Wichita, has ipv6 >> internet. Wichita is not the end of the world BUT you can see it from >> here. >> >> I just installed 11.10 on a desktop. IPv4 and IPv6 were configured >> automatically. >> It would not install from the iso burned to a CD. The install died in >> random places. >> A USB drive worked very well with the same iso on it. >> >> I am still not as comfortable in ipv6 as I am in ipv4 and I am not very >> comfortable with ipv4. If it works - great - if it doesn't work - rats. >> >> Stuart >> > My local ISP, Shentel Cable, seems intent on ignoring it until the net > officially changes& they find they are not only broken, but locked out. > The only other game in this small town is frontier, who bought verizon's > old decrepit copper and despite claims to the contrary, are having a hell > of a time keeping POTS working in this neighborhood. That is why I bailed > out& went to the cable for everything. From 1/1/2010 to 5/1/2010 when I > bailed, I was out of a telephone for at least 8 of those weeks, and had to > call the state PUC to get any fix action what so ever. 4&$@ times! I think > they (frontier) are slowly putting in fiber, but only as fast as they can > afford to. IMNSHO, frontier bought themselves a pig in a poke when they > took over VZ's physical plant. Copper that has been buried for 50+ years > only works in the driest weather. It needs wholesale replacement, but even > then, in today's copper market, not likely to stay buried for long since > they never did put it down far enough to keep the lawn mowers from chopping > it all to hell. As you can deduce, my patience with them has been all used > up... > > Cheers, Gene >
Rant Alert! Verizon used to service Northern Indiana but they sold out to Frontier. Wow, that was a sad day. Two weeks later my DSL/Landline goes out. I call my new Frontier tech support number via cell phone and connect to someone in the southwest (Phoenix - I think). Three phone calls and 2+ hours later (on my cell phone) they verify that my line has been disconnected. I ask why. They don't know, but a work order was issued to disconnect the line. They don't know if it is a mistake or what (???) but they will reconnect it, in 2-3 days!! Two days later the switch is thrown back on. :-( Fast forward to last fall. The neighbor across the street is apparently having phone work done for some reason as there are two Frontier trucks parked in the road in front of my house (the green metal junction post is in my front yard). I come back later in the day and no phone, no DSL. I call Frontier, and explain what I saw. They are sure that whatever they did across the street has nothing to do with my service. But they ring out the line and find an issue. I get frustrated and go out and pull the cover on the phone junction pole box. What a rats nest of wiring. Much of it in very poor condition. The cover goes back on. I'm not fixing that! They say that in 2-3 days they will rectify the problem. Two days later I see a Frontier truck pull up in front of my house, I go talk with them explain the situation and leave. I come back. No change. I call tech support, they say that a reconnection was made to the house. No go. They come back out again when I am not home. A new junction box is installed at the front of my house tied into a different feed cable from the phone pole that was not being used before. I hook a phone to it - a live line! I rerun my house wiring to the new box and once again I have DSL/phone. How's that for service! (Barf.) I wonder how non-technically oriented people deal with Frontier?? Do they simply give up and only use cell phones? Obviously I needed to establish a plan B for internet. So I bought a cheap Virgin mobile USB Cell phone modem for backup along with a prepaid card for service. The phone system died before Christmas again. I called Frontier, same bs.. we will fix your service in 2-3 days. I unpacked the USB Cell phone modem, activated it, and was back on the net immediately. Work continued. Two days later the phone system was back up. No more lost sleep due to DSL service. Verizon had excellent customer/tech support that was local. Frontier ...sucks! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
