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Re: [PLUG] Comcast or Verizon DSL for Linux laptop?
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One of my friends had it (admittedly near when it first came out), and it
was down more than it was up. On the plus side, they didn't charge him
when it was down more than 15 days a month, which was most months. My
friend's Verizon DSL also seems very slow, but that could just be the
speed option she purchased, as I didn't ask.
The only time my speakeasy went down was for a couple days after 9.11.
-- noah silva
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Scott wrote:
> FYI-
>
> In Reading the Verizon service has been really poor lately. Outages
> lasting up to a week with no real answers from them. I used it for about
> 3 months and I was not real happy as I had the business grade 768k and I
> never saw that amount of bandwidth available. More like 512.
>
> Have been with Comcast since March and other than the usual Sunday night
> maintenance outage it has been wonderful.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Rebecca Ore wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Noah silva wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Yeah my friend said she couldn't even use AIM to do file transfers (in
> > > windows). this shouldn't be allowed to be sold as an internet connection,
> > > it should have be be called "limited access solution", or something
> > > similarly revealing.
> >
> > Yes, it does appear to be the case that they're blocking file transfers in AIM.
> > My niece is testing this with me and says that a lot of businesses and
> > universities are also blocking this due to viruses and such.
> >
> > Verizon's explanation for the port 80 block was that too many people were
> > either getting infected by the various worms and viruses, or complaining to
> > Verizon about seeing attempts in their apache logs.
> >
> >
>
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>
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