Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Ken 
 


What's the scoop on satellite interwebz these days? Still pricey & high latency?





 From: ChasM Marshall 
To: parabell...@yahoo.com 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: CenturyLink/DirectTV
 

 
Hiya,
  Here's my rural viewpoint:

DirecTV:
We use DirecTV on two Satellite recievers, one dish.  
Our premium bundle includes HBO. 
Last week there was a Viacom blackout (which included Comedy Channel.)
I do not expect to be reimbursed at all.  
The Texas-based 800 Phone service has outright lied to us regarding charges
we incurred to re-adjust dish pointing.  Prior to service I was told that the
standard $50.00 visit would be waived, but it wasn't.  Naturally,
they called back to invite us to do a survey.  (I almost cussed at em.)
Our DirecTV does not include Internet-anything (THAT would DOUBLE our costs).
Being that Tonopah has NO cable, and NO Fiber for residents, it's a monopoly.

CenturyLink/QWest:
We have a CAT3 land line with QWest/CenturyLink and are lucky to get a dial 
tone.
For fifteen years phone service, the fail rate is about four days every two 
years.
Years ago, lightening killed my DirecTV receiver through the phone line.
Seems that windy wet weather can kill equipment at my local substation too.
The station is less than a mile away, but they cannot offer us DSL service.  
huh?  
It has multiple fiber T-1 links from local schools ten miles away.
A new housing sub-division, 15 miles distant, recently began offering DSL 
service.
Nearby folks have dumped ALL telco services for one DSL connection.
Our Unified School District is five hundred square miles.
Being that Tonopah has only 7 thousand residents, it's a monopoly too.
Side notes:  
There is a QWest CFO in Federal jail today for pension embezzelment.
There WAS a national Uniform Service Fund that telcos should be using, but
the FCC is now TWO YEARS behind in accounting for state expenditures.
Arizona is only one state that FCC regulation ignores.
Should I mention that the FCC operates like a monopoly?
I wouldn't know who to complain to, and have to chalk it up to rural life.

If you think a new name or new management would change my opinion ...

  (-:  Chas.M.  :-)




Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:08:39 -0700
From: parabell...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us


Nice thing about DSL is you can pick your ISP. We used FastQ when we lived in 
Mesa, it was good. Didn't have the peak speeds Cox did but it was much more 
consistent and reliable. And, we had static IP's and could run home servers, 
unlike cocks. Your results may vary, but should be good performance if fiber is 
in your hood. Century Link Customer Service is a sea of menus and sri lanka 
help-desk people. 


The DirecTV installers butchered the dish install, put lag bolts right through 
the roof, big nasty leaking holes and splinters of wood and it still wobbled in 
the wind. I would have been pissed had we not been doing a roof job a few 
months later anyway. I re-installed it proper-like, it's easy enough to do it 
yourself. More & better music channels, roomie liked the sports line-up better. 


-Ken





 From: Mark Astrauskas 
To: Main PLUG discussion list  
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: CenturyLink/DirectTV
 
CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new 
Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with 
CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I could 
save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, so I'm 
strongly considering it.

Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current provider), so 
I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen 
I love filezilla :-)
On Jul 25, 2012 8:57 PM, "Daniel Stasinski"  wrote:

> On Jul 25, 2012 12:59 PM, "Eric Cope" >> > wrote:
>>>  Can Filezilla do a recursive chmod?
>>>
>>
> Yep, apparently so and pretty painless too.  Thanks :)
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Re: Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Stasinski 
>
> On Jul 25, 2012 12:59 PM, "Eric Cope" > > wrote:
>>  Can Filezilla do a recursive chmod?
>>
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Yep, apparently so and pretty painless too.  Thanks :)

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Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Ken 
Nice thing about DSL is you can pick your ISP. We used FastQ when we lived in 
Mesa, it was good. Didn't have the peak speeds Cox did but it was much more 
consistent and reliable. And, we had static IP's and could run home servers, 
unlike cocks. Your results may vary, but should be good performance if fiber is 
in your hood. Century Link Customer Service is a sea of menus and sri lanka 
help-desk people. 


The DirecTV installers butchered the dish install, put lag bolts right through 
the roof, big nasty leaking holes and splinters of wood and it still wobbled in 
the wind. I would have been pissed had we not been doing a roof job a few 
months later anyway. I re-installed it proper-like, it's easy enough to do it 
yourself. More & better music channels, roomie liked the sports line-up better. 


-Ken





 From: Mark Astrauskas 
To: Main PLUG discussion list  
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: CenturyLink/DirectTV
 
CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new 
Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with 
CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I could 
save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, so I'm 
strongly considering it.

Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current provider), so 
I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Astrauskas 
I saw such reviews online, but all seemed to be regarding when they ran 
as Qwest. I'm hoping to hear from a recent customer that knows if the 
new management/rebranding has improved anything.


Putting aside the billing problems, how was the service itself?

On 7/25/2012 6:31 PM, Stephen wrote:


My experience dates back to the qwest/uswest says where "features" 
would magically appear on my account. Things like vm and long distance 
on my modem line ect. So i have really had very little interest in 
going back.


On Jul 25, 2012 6:26 PM, "Mark Astrauskas" > wrote:


CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their
new Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience
with CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It
looks like I could save a good amount every month and could even
get a faster speed, so I'm strongly considering it.

Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current
provider), so I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.

Thanks,
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Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen 
Wire the old ones up to your wifi and have fun...
On Jul 25, 2012 6:51 PM, "Michael Havens"  wrote:

> you want a dish on your house? If there is already one there make sure you
> instruct the tech to take the old one(s) down. WHen I was training to be an
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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Stephen  wrote:
>
>> My experience dates back to the qwest/uswest says where "features" would
>> magically appear on my account. Things like vm and long distance on my
>> modem line ect. So i have really had very little interest in going back.
>>  On Jul 25, 2012 6:26 PM, "Mark Astrauskas"  wrote:
>>
>>> CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new
>>> Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with
>>> CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I
>>> could save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, so
>>> I'm strongly considering it.
>>>
>>> Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current
>>> provider), so I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
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Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Havens 
you want a dish on your house? If there is already one there make sure you
instruct the tech to take the old one(s) down. WHen I was training to be an
installer we went to one house with three dishes already up. My trainer
just put a fourth in place.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Stephen  wrote:

> My experience dates back to the qwest/uswest says where "features" would
> magically appear on my account. Things like vm and long distance on my
> modem line ect. So i have really had very little interest in going back.
> On Jul 25, 2012 6:26 PM, "Mark Astrauskas"  wrote:
>
>> CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new
>> Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with
>> CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I
>> could save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, so
>> I'm strongly considering it.
>>
>> Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current
>> provider), so I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen 
My experience dates back to the qwest/uswest says where "features" would
magically appear on my account. Things like vm and long distance on my
modem line ect. So i have really had very little interest in going back.
On Jul 25, 2012 6:26 PM, "Mark Astrauskas"  wrote:

> CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new
> Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with
> CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I
> could save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, so
> I'm strongly considering it.
>
> Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current
> provider), so I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Astrauskas 
CenturyLink recently laid fiber in my area and is pitching their new 
Internet/DirectTV service. Does anyone have recent experience with 
CenturyLink's fiber offering or with DirectTV as well? It looks like I 
could save a good amount every month and could even get a faster speed, 
so I'm strongly considering it.


Yelp reviews are awful, but so are the Cox Cable ones (my current 
provider), so I'm seeking any firsthand comments or experiences.


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Re: Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Shubert 

I just checked, and yes it can.

On 07/25/2012 02:29 PM, Stephen wrote:

I think so.

On Jul 25, 2012 12:59 PM, "Eric Cope" mailto:eric.c...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Can Filezilla do a recursive chmod?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Daniel Stasinski
mailto:dan...@genericinbox.com>> wrote:

Is anyone aware of any tools that can recurse a remote ftp
directory tree and set each directory to 755 and file to 644?

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Re: Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen 
I think so.
On Jul 25, 2012 12:59 PM, "Eric Cope"  wrote:

> Can Filezilla do a recursive chmod?
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Daniel Stasinski <
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>> Is anyone aware of any tools that can recurse a remote ftp directory tree
>> and set each directory to 755 and file to 644?
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Re: Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Cope 
Can Filezilla do a recursive chmod?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Daniel Stasinski
wrote:

> Is anyone aware of any tools that can recurse a remote ftp directory tree
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Tool to change ftp dir permissions globally?

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Stasinski 
Is anyone aware of any tools that can recurse a remote ftp directory tree
and set each directory to 755 and file to 644?

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