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Re: [PLUG] Anyone want to come over with a Windows laptop for Verizon...
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> So sign up with Directv DSL. Verizon line, external router, static ip.
> 'course, I should mention I booted into windows to set mine up, but that
> shouldn't be required. Their install just needs your computer to run
> dhcp to the modem/router box they ship you the first time you setup.
> (Actually, that might not even be necessary, as the setup sequence is
> very predictable, but dhcp is the easy way.)
>
Verizon is said to have a fairly decent Usenet system -- a friend in New
England uses them and has been surprised with how good their netnews is.
I'd also prefer to get closer to the bone -- eventually Verizon will be able to
cut out the middle people unless the political climate changes drastically
(which would be good, too).
And as a telco, they could see (though they don't now) net connectivity as
really an extension of telephony, without the portal sites, the attempts to use
the client base in some marketdroid way. Too many people saw net connectivity
as an extension of television -- and that was just stupid.
--
Rebecca Ore
http://www.ogoense.net
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