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Skriven 2011-06-27 23:02:52 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Internet Service
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->  RH> That's one I've never seen, but then I've never had cable internet.
->  RH> Right now I'm on a FIOS connection.  It ain't cheap, but it works
and I
->  RH> don't have to deal with the Cable monopoly.  I am however dealing
with
->  RH> AT&T, who when they were SNET were great, but that's been bought
out
->  RH> twice with dips in customer service quality each time.
-> 
-> I wish Maw Bell would wire my town for FIOS - I'd jump in a Sarasota
second.

Until you have to restart your computer every day, at least once, because
the FIOS connection and sleep mode don't mix....  It's liveable, but
annoying.  The connection doesn't drop, but the computer thinks it does.

-> They are doing some fibre - but only in new (and high $$$)
sub-divisions. If we
-> ever get fibre where I can afford to live I expect we'll see Ol' Scratch
on ice
-> skates soon after.
->  
It's one of the few benefits of living in Connecticut; you can get FIOS too
if you move somewhere they can tax you to death.

-> other in the region. That, in turn was usurped by Southern Bell (SBC)
which was
-> on a campaign to roll-up and dominate US telecommunications. Eventually
SBC
-> bought the remnants of AT&T (including the name and logo) which then
gobbled up

...and thus became a monotony again.  I'd say monopoly, but have you ever
sat and listened to the hold music?

-> Cingular and re-branded it as AT&T. Hopefully justice (Department of)
will
-> prevail and the bailiff will whack their pee-pee and break them up again
for
-> monopolistic practices. Before ... never mind - I was about to get into
-> politics and the party which worships profits and bottom lines before
common
-> sense.

Tell the Devil not to break out the ice skates just yet....
  
->  RH> I don't think he's that far out, but it's a thought. They may have
->  RH> improved service in the past few years, but I had a friend in North
->  RH> Carolina who lost service every time a storm hit.  A lot of it
probably
->  RH> has to do with the installer as much as it does with the equipment. 
It
->  RH> usually does.
->  
-> Installation is key. The dish and LNB and transmit antenna *must* be at
least
-> seven feet in the air as the transmitter is high enough power that if
you stand
-> in front of it when it is transmitting it can cook your grits. We used a
3 1/2"
-> schedule 80 tube with 4 feet of the tube anchored in the ground in 8
bags of
-> Quikcrete in a bell-shaped hole - so that bad boy was not going
anywhere. Nor
-> was it going to quiver in a high wind, etc.
-> 
Sounds about right to me.  Big ol' dish, from the sound of it.  
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