 Ricky Smith
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join:2004-09-11
Winter Park, FL | Suburban I live in the "suburb" and we've got at least 3+ choices in providers. We have Comcast, RCN, Verizon, Satellite, and other random providers. So I'd have to say our broadband is upto date.
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join:2007-09-13
Cambridge, NY | Re: Suburban In my suburbs, we have a choice of Time Warner Cable, Verizon DSL, sattelite (which seems pointless with the better options), and wireless (VZW, Sprint, AT&T, and Hudson Valley Wireless). So, that department seems well covered for my town as well. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Suburban I live in an L.A. suburb (its own city) of Santa Clarita (aka Valencia), and we have a few choices
1. Cable (TimeWarner)
2. DSL (AT&T and resellers)
3. Uverse
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| | Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
 ·SONIC.NET
| said by Ricky Smith  :I live in the "suburb" No, you don't, if your byline is correct (it says "Boston, MA"). Mine says "Aptos, CA", which I need to update to "San Jose, CA". Let me explain the difference between Aptos and San Jose:
San Jose is a major metropolitan city. Aptos is a suburban town of a minor city (Santa Cruz), and foreigners often mistake it for being a suburb of an even more minor city that's closer to it (Watsonville, but that's a field and picker city).
Boston is an urban area. Is there some exceptions in its bounds, like in a few cities, and to what extent are those exceptions really exceptions in practice? Are you near enough to urbania to get its effects? | |
| | | Ricky Smith
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join:2004-09-11
Winter Park, FL | Re: Suburban I lived in Boston for college, I know what a suburb is thank you. I currently live in Woburn, MA which is the suburbs. As I noted bellow boston is not a suburb nor are the surrounding cities. | |
| | | Ricky Smith
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join:2004-09-11
Winter Park, FL
| Re: Whining because IBM won't reimburse all his costs If he's complaining he can't get FIOS cause he's in the "burbs" then he's naive, as all the places I know around here Verizon has deployed are in those areas. They've yet to deploy in Boston or surrounding towns.
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
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join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| And if he ever got FIOS, he'd probably bitch about Verizon's prices too. Their not exactly priced competitively with their own DSL service after all.
The guy probably makes 80K a year but wants everything for nothing.
Maybe next he will try to get his employer to pay for a pressure washer to clean his siding.
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ablack6596
join:2005-01-28
Scarsdale, NY
| Not that bad This was supposed to be a comment on the site, but the registration is just too long. Why is my full address required?
At least you have a choice. My only choice for broadband internet until fairly recently was Optimum Online and we were one of the last be setup for cable internet. No DSL available here. Also if you've experienced internet from other cable companies, OOL is by far the best.
However, I do have Fios now. I also live in NYC suburbs, Westchester. My town is also very conscious about looks, no solar panels because they're ugly, but encouraged Verizon to bring competition with Fios. | |
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Not that bad said by PhoenixDown :-- Flushing Queens A good start? | |
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Tzale
Ron Paul - No Bailout Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
NJ, USA
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
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June 22nd, @04:06PM
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Re: Stop the BS... Thumbs up to that. NY is one of the "best connected" states in the union. | |
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wifi4milez
In Need Of Garbage Pail Kids 1st Series
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| This guy is an idiot The NYC suburbs are one of the most competitive broadband areas in the country. He is complaining because he wants to downgrade from cable internet to DSL, and is unhappy with DSL's limitations. As a "technology" writer he should be aware of this fact already. Furthermore, he is whining about the fact that they arent upgrading the DSL infrastructure in his town when FIOS will be deployed there shortly! This guy needs to stop bitching that he actually needs to pay for part of his internet service now.
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Bobcat
Verizon blows, Cablevision sucks
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | What a whiner! He's such a moron, he doesn't even deserve a response. | |
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NetAdmin
join:2008-05-22
| Re: What a whiner! said by Bobcat :He's such a moron, he doesn't even deserve a response. Yeah, I agree... At least his employer paid him for his internet connection. At a previous job, nearly all of my internet use at home (on a business connection) was work related and I never received the proper reimbursement from them for it. Yeah, I really feel for that guy cause he is getting SOOOOO screwed over... Not.
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Jason Perlow
@optonline.net
| Re: What a whiner! First of all, about this whole "whining" thing. I don't buy it. There's a lot of stuff my employer doesn't pay for. For example, while they do pay for my cell service and voice, they don't pay for my Blackberry data plan, which for some reason they regard as non business critical. I could understand this if nobody in my division or in my job role carried them, but the reality is we all do, and are expected to be responsive when we travel and when we are away on vacation even if its a serious customer problem. I have to eat that $70 extra every month and I either have to like it or lump it. I could choose not to use a Blackberry, but it keeps me from missing numerous conference calls and allows me to conduct business without my laptop. When you are in services delivery, this is essential nowadays.
Additionally, we have totally unrealistic compensation for business travel. On average, we are only allowed $32-$40 per day in meals. I travel 4 days out of the week. Ever tried to travel to San Francisco and eat for $40 a day? And when we have local travel to do, and have to use our own vehicles for transportation, gas is only compensated at 35 cents per mile. Thats based on a rate for ultra compact cars, which I don't drive. I don't drive a giant SUV, I have a sedan that is over ten years old, but its not exactly a ultra compact in terms of fuel consumption.
As much as my employer compensates me, it almost always costs me money to travel for them. Every little bit I can save helps. | |
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Re: What a whiner! Sounds like time to find a new job. (They probably won't compensate you for that either)  | |
| tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Cost of living... That's the trade-off you make when you want to live in a less expensive place to live. The cable & phone companies won't see your town as a priority for upgrades. Proximity to NYC is not the point... $850 a month rent vs $2800 rent for a comparable in NYC (maybe not that drastic a difference..but you get the point). | |
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Jason Perlow
@optonline.net
| Re: Cost of living... Hardly less expensive.
You may get -more- for your money in terms of square footage, but Bergen County -- where I live and we have a number of issues related to FIOS deployment and such -- is one of the most expensive areas of the country to live in. Compared to NYC, it may be "cheaper" but it is hardly an inexpensive place to be. We have some of the highest real estate taxes in the county, highest insurance premiums, etc. | |
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Cable Me Not
@verizon.net
| Up to date, or non-competitive? About the best we can get here is 3Mbps, which isn't anything to write home about, but its ok, coming from 28K dialup.
What bugs me is the constant argument that somehow, we have competition, and that will solve everything. We have a "choice" of two non-competing vendors. Prices are lower than when there was only one, but they both wink at each other, and prices rise in concert, at every opportunity. | |
| | Selenia
join:2006-09-22
Pittsfield, MA
·RoadRunner Cable
| Truly an idiot!! Let's have him try to move to Pittsfield, or better yet, my hometown of Quebec. Pittsfield has Roadrunner(10m/1m standard 15m/2m Premium, 768k/128k lite), Verizon dsl(up to either 768k/128k or 3m/768k, depending on location), and Richmond Networx.
Richmond is about the biggest ripoff for what you get. You get to buy your own modem and pay a hefty installation charge, in addition to paying $60 a month for 1.5 megabits down, 384 kbits up.
Roadrunner sucks in my area because they could not give a hoot about uptime(this includes the phone service), not to mention they have the worst phone techs ever(as well as a decent number of crappy field techs, especially for the neighborhood I moved to).
Then there is Verizon, which is decent if you can accept their speed limitations. But only 1 decent choice, which is way behind on speed. That's our internet picture. I would go on about Canadian internet service, but that's the past for me and I don't want to flood this thread. This guy should feel damn lucky he has 2 truly high speed providers with other lower competition. | |
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jaa
Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
New Canaan, CT
 ·Vonage
·Optimum Online
| Is he kidding? Complaining about 24mbps down and 4mbps upload speed? That is probably better speed than most of the readers of his stupid post get.
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| etplayer
join:2006-01-05
Tucson, AZ
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June 23rd, @05:07PM
| Sounds like Tucson Heh, I feel for the guy, the elderly gent I work for tried to get them to reinstall DSL at the house. This morning, I called up to see why they hadn't installed it yet seeing as it was supposed to be in place last Wednesday, the guy on the phone told me they were 'Out of internet' in my area. Middle of Tucson, a city of a million people, 100s of homes in the surrounding block or so, a mall, 2 auto dealerships, 2 hospitals, numerous strip malls and doctors officers, and the regional phone service is 'out of internet' (QWEST). Freakin' unbelievable. | |
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
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join:2001-03-25 |  Just one.
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Modern Suburban Broadband Isn't Up To Date
Whining because IBM won't reimburse all his costs
