Re: [PLUG] dyndns + speakeasy

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 28 Feb, 2005, at 21:43, Eugene Smiley wrote:
> Verizon owns the last mile for the most part when discussing DSL in
> Philadelphia.

Only true if you are a Verizon customer for POTS.

> I believe that the problem is switching DSL providers for a Verizon
> provisioned DSL line. For example, I have Cavalier (local/LD/DSL)
> over a Verizon loop. There are 2 loops that come into my house. If I
> wanted to switch from Cavalier to SpeakEasy, I would have to either
> get the 1st line unprovisioned and go through ordering and
> reprovisioning (elapsed time: WEEKS to MONTHS, without service) or
> get the 2nd line provisioned (elapsed time: DAYS to WEEKS).

Don't mix apples an oranges here.

Verizon and Speakeasy are both reselling the same Verizon local loop.

Cavalier, however, is a CLEC, and it "owns" that last mile, not Verizon.
(It's a legal thing, not physical, but it is a completely different
setup than Speakeasy simply buying and reselling a Verizon DSL loop.)

I have Cavalier for telephone and have had DCA/BellAtlantic
since the beginning. I actually picked up Cavalier in the middle of
getting my DSL line installed... it worked fine for two days, and then
died completely. It took the fact that I was involved in the DSL
testing with DCA and Bell Atlantic at the time to get the problem
escalated to the point where somebody far enough up in management
would/could explain why the line suddenly died and nobody could
get it working again! I wound up getting a second "dumb line" for
the BA DSL line so as not to disrupt my regular phone service...
at that time Cavalier was a division of DelMarva Power and Light
and were not offering DSL service outside of Wilmington city.

> Another problem is when you're in an area where all available loops
> are allocated and there is no plan to expand.

??? If you have phone service, you have a local loop. You may be in
an area served by Fibre, and consequently no DSLAM is available, but
that also is a different problem.

> Cavalier has given me zero issues, but this thread has reminded me
> that I need to shop around, because they changed their plans and I'm
> on a higher priced plan (needlessly).

Everybody's rates are going up -- very soon. The FCC just (last week,
I think) dropped the requirement that the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange
Carrier) has to sell their loops to the CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange
Carrier) "cheap." Off hand, I don't know if that decision takes effect
today, 1 March, or later.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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