[SLL] OT warning--Comcast opt out

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:31:59AM -0700, Chris Fischer wrote:
>Glenn Stone wrote:
>>Comcast is *TOO LATE*.  The Washington Supreme Court just ruled you 
>>couldn't
>>do that.
>Very glad to hear that.
>>  That's why I live *here*... (and why I don't have them for an ISP,
>>thank $DEITYOFCHOICE...)
>>  
>But I'd take Comcast over Verizon anytime. Verizon in my experience is 
>*FAR WORSE* than Comcast.

Dif'rent strokes... Verizon doesn't tend to nuke your service when you go
download the latest ISO.  The horror stories abound.  

FWIW, I ended up in this little supposedly DSL-free zone, at least from what
Speakeasy could see... but what they didn't know (which was also reported
here) was that Qwest has a habit of dropping a DSL repeater in such areas
when there's enough demand.  I thought I was going to be stuck with Comcast,
period, end of sentence... but the happy little Qwest salescritter says,
"you qualify for 1.5"... and delivered.  It came with this all-in-one
DSLmodem/wireless/router thingy.... not half bad, works kinda like a WRT54GL
(only I doubt it runs Linux)... the link is PPPoA, which would ordinarily be
a pain in the ASCII, but the router is the one that remembers your
credentials, and simply gives you a DHCP handoff.  (It apparently also has a
caching DNS server in it, which come to think of it, makes me suspicious
that it *does* run Linux....)  

Like the Verizon stuff, Qwest "comes with" MSN, but the DSL folks were quite
open about the fact that once I got online, I could feel free to ignore
that... :)

Now if I can just get the RT61 wireless card in Her Ladyship's machine to
talk encryption... (I hear tell it's a feature in the latest kernel, so
I'm about half way through the appropriate steps... )

-- Glenn
never thought I'd be happy to be with Qwest