greywolf520
That's All Folks
join:2003-06-02
New Kensington, PA
| Deal? What Deal? What gets me is that they had a deal to wire the state for 'braodband' or 45 Mbps and 50% of the state would be wired by 2004. Heck, I don't believe that 50% of the state even knows what broadband is... Outside of the 'big' cities of the state, it's like night and day trying and hoping to get broadband.
Even in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, broadband coverage is spotty. My old place I had to wait until Verizon push the DSL limit to 18,000. In my new place, I'm hoping that the DSL order I placed today goes through. Verizon said I qualified for DSL. Sending me the modem next week. My next door neighbor told me he has been trying for years to get DSL but that Verizon has told me he is too far.
I like Verizon DSL, the speed thing is 1000 percent better than dialup. I just don't like how the slow it's been to expand the coverage. I shouldn't have to worry whether or not if my new house is capable of getting DSL.
Anyone remember 1200 baud modems? Remember how quickly it went to 2400 then the small step (or hiccup) to 33.6 then the big jump to 56K? Why can't broadband be working at that speed? It should have, those moves were all because of customer demand, wants and needs. The demand is there for broadband, just the telcos and ISP don't want to keep up. |
