Re: [PLUG] Anyone want to come over with a Windows laptop for Verizon...

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> 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.


This was more directed to ian than you, as I thought you had already
signed up with Verizon. :)

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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