[wplug] Verizon FIOS experience with Linux?

[Greg Simkins]

Verizon offers a very low price.  It works very well for many people. 
Perhaps the fact that their customer service sucks is compensated by the low 
price?

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Verizon FIOS experience with Linux?


> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 19:43 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>> I'll never EVER get any Internet offered by Verizon again.
>
> Tom:
>
> I agree.  When you dance with devil, you _wait_ for the music to stop.
>
> Verizon's DSL DSLAM in the Georgetown (Wasdc0 area) was down for 12+
> hours on Friday and no one thought anything of it.
>
> The FIOS cable television menus are so slow and unresponsive its an
> embarrassment to IT professionals everywhere.  At least Comcast had an
> excuse: The network is asynchronous at the protocol level (DOCSIS). Here
> that only applies for the 15' from your turner to the bridge in your
> basement.
>
> They're the worst possible recopies of both a both government subsidized
> bureaucracy mixed with capitalism.
>
> They just don't give a shit about anyone or anything.  They'd club a
> baby seal over the head to make a buck.
>
> ~BAS
>
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