On Mar 10, 2004, at 8:36 AM, Nicole Benn wrote:
Hello all:
I need (ok, want) broadband internet access. My dialup has until now been sufficient; unfortunately, in my current apartment, the line quality is bad and I suffer from poor connections speeds (actually got 1200 on my 56K one day ACK!!!) and very uneven performance. But, I've run into a couple of problems with conventional broadband:
1. The cable signal coming in to my building is very poor - the cable modem was able to get an intermittent signal maybe 4 times in the week and a half that I had it.
Who owns this cable? If it's the cable company, it's their responsibility to make sure it's working, Otherwise it's your building owners...complain to them
2. I don't use one of the baby bells for phone service, so I'm not able to get DSL - the local BB will only allow other ISPs to lease their lines to provide broadband internet service to the BB's phone customers; AND the BB only provides DSL to its phone customers.
Doncha just love monopolies... :-(
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