FioS? I don't know if we'll ever get it around here and it really is expensive - which is a shame.
Earthlink, to me, looks to be an absolute mess - the whole thing with getting WiFi to the city, now pulling out, horrible customer service (outsourced to India), charging people huge fees for cancelling, etc. Just go here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/earthlink ... btw, I went to Earthlink's site, http://www.earthlink.net/highspeed/ , just for the heck of it and it appears that you can get Earthlink DSL here, at least part of the 'hood. Congratulations! The following EarthLink services are available: Availability results for *S 4-TH ST PHILA,PA 19104-2919 215- [ edit your information <javascript:;> ]* *Products ** * EarthLink High Speed DSL* - Downstream speed of up to 6.0Mbps - Special Offer: $19.95/month for the first 3 months - Monthly Charge: $39.95/month thereafter - Up to 4 times faster than regular DSL! (regular DSL = 1.5 Mbps) learn more <http://www.earthlink.net/dsl/> * EarthLink High Speed DSL* - Downstream speed of up to 3.0Mbps - Special Offer: $19.95/month for the first 3 months - Monthly Charge: $39.95/month thereafter - Up to 2 times faster than regular DSL! (regular DSL = 1.5 Mbps) learn more <http://www.earthlink.net/dsl/> * EarthLink High Speed DSL* - Downstream speed of up to 1.5Mbps - Special Offer: $14.95/month for the first 6 months - Monthly Charge: $39.95/month thereafter learn more <http://www.earthlink.net/dsl/> * EarthLink High Speed DSL* - Downstream speed of up to 768Kbps - Special Offer: $14.95/month for the first 6 months - Monthly Charge: $35.95/month thereafter - Up to 15 times faster than dial-up! (based on average speed of a 28.8 K and 56 K modem) learn more <http://www.earthlink.net/dsl/> * EarthLink DSL & Home Phone Service - keep my current number* - Learn More<https://store.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/wsisa.dll/store/main.html#>about transferring your number Wendy On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:32 AM, SKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean, > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Earthlink cannnot provide broadband > access. You need broadband access to utilize a service like Earthlink's. > You should know, however, that Earthlink consistently wins prizes (only God > knows who supervises these surveys...I don't) for its superior customer > service. > > FIOS is superior, but only available in the suburbs, unfortunately. > > Sande Knight > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; univcity@list.purple.com > *Sent:* Friday, March 21, 2008 10:23 AM > *Subject:* Re: Cable service: do we have a choice? [was: Re: [UC] Bad news > for Campus Apartments from the FCC > > If it is cable TV you are referring to, then unfortunately the only other > options are Direct TV and Dish Network. Both are satellite providers and > offer the same versions of Comcast's amenities. The downsides are > frequent outage during bad weather and cheesy/ primitive customer service > (and that's in comparison to Comcast's customer service) among other minor > issues. If you love to watch your Philly sports teams NOT win the big one > then don't get these providers as they do not carry Comcast (the channel) > which provides great coverage of average teams with cheap ownership (but > that's another post). > > If it is a cable/T1,2 or 3 internet connection you refer to, the only > other worthy provider (that Im aware of) is Verizon. Verizon has great > service (especially Fios - through my personal experiences) but is > expensive. Of course there is always Earthlink and other providers but I > don't know much about these guys. > > -Sean > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: UnivCity listserv <UnivCity@list.purple.com> > Sent: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 9:53 pm > Subject: Re: Cable service: do we have a choice? [was: Re: [UC] Bad news > for Campus Apartments from the FCC > > I think the law should require us all to use carrier pigeons instead. It's > about saving the Earth. Modern urban technology generates too many pigeons, > just as it generates too much CO2. Messages we send by pigeon instead of > internet will reduce our CO2 debt, since the pigeons are already there and > require no further carbon combustion. > > -- Tony West > > > When I was a Campus Apartments renter I was limited to Campus > > Technologies for Internet. (It was blazing fast, had connectivity to > > Penn's network which was useless to me, was expensive and didn't > support > home networking.) I don't remember the phone company they > used but it > wasn't Verizon. They also offered a weird limited cable TV > option but I > went with Comcast which was available in my building. > It's not available > in all of their buildings, or wasn't at the time. > > > > Frank > > > >> > >> This is interesting, since in West Philadelphia, aren't we ALL >> > limited to Comcast for _cable_? Wouldn't it be great to have a choice? > >> > >> - Melani Lamond > > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > ------------------------------ > Supercharge your AIM. Get the AIM > toolbar<http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586>for > your browser. > >
