[nycbug-talk] Brooklyn Internet Backwater, Need Advice.

[Aron Roberts]

This seems to be where I am at now. Copper has been magically found  
by very nice install dude that had nothing nice to say about  
verizon :) I'll wait until the verizon DSL is up for a month or so  
before switching to a new provider.



On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Order Verizon (they'll magically find copper for you), cancel,  
> order from DSL provider of your choice. :)
>
> It's worked for a handful of our DSL customers...
>
> If the OP wants more details, send me full address/phone info and  
> I'll give you the full results of the covad lookup.
>
> C
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, jh wrote:
>
>
>> Aron Roberts wrote:
>>
>>
>>> > I am now living in my second Brooklyn apartment with limited   
>>> services. In this case it seems that neither DSL or Cable can be   
>>> delivered to my residence. I am waiting on hearing back from  
>>> Verizon  to see if maybe they were lying to Covad on my Speakeasy  
>>> order.   However I tried Cablevision and they said they could not  
>>> deliver  anything to my block and could not tell me why.
>>>
>>
>> First, Cablevision is the spawn of the devil. Avoid them if you  
>> can no
>> matter what you have to do.
>>
>> I went through this roughly a year ago in Clinton Hill. No cable  
>> modems
>> from the spawn, and apparently, Verizon had run out of copper. So,  
>> they
>> were multiplexing lines using some half-assed digital technology  
>> (Alex
>> can explain this better than me - he was very helpful back then...)
>>
>> The only solution? A dedicated line DSL connection from Covad for  
>> more
>> money per month than you'd want to know.
>>
>> Of course, Verizon put in adequate copper some time after I signed  
>> the
>> usurious contract with Covad. Am now a happy Pilsoft customer.
>>
>> Is you issue a distance or no-available-copper issue? It was  
>> suggested
>> to me that Verizon, by law, has to pull copper for things like  
>> burglar
>> alarm and medical emergency alarm systems. It was further  
>> suggested that
>> I insist on copper for this reason. Didn't get me anywhere, but I  
>> wasn't
>> all that insistent.
>>
>> jh
>>
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