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Subject: Re: [OM] Public Wifi
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 13:30:11 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Cc: "Goss,Steve" <SGOSS@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>If you don't have DSL available now, it's possible that you never will. 
>Where I am we had DSL but the phone company started pushing fiber optic, 
>and stopped allowing new DSL several years ago.
>


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson


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>From: "Goss,Steve via olympus" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 9, 2019 1:06 PM
>To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "Goss,Steve" <SGOSS@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Public Wifi
>
>Chris-

>Thanks,
>Steve Goss
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: olympus <olympus-bounces+sgoss=cerner.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf 
>Of Chris Trask
>Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:45 PM
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>Subject: Re: [OM] Public Wifi
>
>     A point well taken.  However, the cable provider here is Cox.  After 
> hearing from some users what they did to billing scares me.  They would 
> change the accounts from one month to the next, sometimes billing double what 
> the customer had signed up for.  Then it's a long battle to get it corrected. 
>  And they don't give you the option of paying by cheque, just direct transfer 
> from a bank account.
>
>     It may be a while before DSL is available in my neighbourhood.  19CL is 
> dragging its feet because, like all other phone companies, they want to get 
> out of the wired/copper business completely and go totally wireless.  It took 
> them years to replace the broken and missing weatherproof covers on their 
> above-ground junctions, even while things would go south every time we had a 
> quarter inch or more of rain.  And it was only in the last five years or so 
> that they equipped their repair vehicles with field-portable TDRs to track 
> line line breakages.
>
>     In the meantime, I found a complete QWest DSL modem in a thrift store for 
> just $7.  The CDROM is still in an unopened sleeve.  I just need to get a set 
> of the filters, which are dirt cheap on evilBay.
>
>>
>>>     DSL is not available here, and I'm not going to waste money on cable.
>>
>>That used to be my attitude, too. But then cable got really, really cheap.
>>I pay under C$90/month for unlimited North American phone service *and*
>>business-grade Internet with one static IP. We paid nearly double that
>>when we used POTS and DSL.
>>
>>What the cable companies *really* want to do is sell you television. If
>>you don't do TV (as I do not), you can get the other services fairly
>>cheap, thanks to neighbours who are paying up to $300/month for "premium 
>>channels"
>>and other crap.
>>
>>Of course, if DSL is not available where you are, that may be why cable
>>is expensive. You may find that you're just beyond 11,000 feet from a
>>switch, and that others in your area can get DSL, in which case, I'd
>>imagine that cable would be competitive.
>>
>
>
>Chris
>
>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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