DSL Providors

[Janina Sajka]

Rodney:

If you live in an area where your only broadband connectivity options 
force you into a service which will only work with Microslop, you might 
have a most interesting and useful Sec. 255 complaint with the FCC.

If anyone wants to pursue such a thing, contact me off list.

 On 
Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote:

> Thanks for describing to us the shit that it truly is.  We are thinking
> about moving to a small town and I just learned that the telephone
> company provides DSL service but I was wondering if I would have trouble
> as you so wonderfully described Ann.  But it seems there has got to be
> someway that all this shit can be bypassed so we can get to the milk.  Any
> ideas out there folks?
> Rodney
> 
> The Weaving Beaver
> rclowdus at kcnet.com
> "Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice."
> "Weave your own cloth and it will reward you twice."
> 
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Ann Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Forget DSL!!! Forget it!!  If you want DSL you better be prepared to
> > get the business kind because if you get ADSL they will force you into
> > getting that damned SSG Dashboard crap that can not be accessed in
> > Lynx w3 or anything but MSIE.  This is their web interface to their
> > routers.  When you *can* access it with Gates' garbage, they have
> > decided to write the whole damned thing in Java script.  It takes me
> > twenty to thirty minutes to reset my DSL when they time it out, which
> > they do every week or so.  Why does it take that long?  I have to
> > reboot into Windows.  Then, I have to access the Dashboard.  Then, I
> > have to find the stupid links to the edit boxes which are not labeled
> > correctly so that the MSAA works properly.  Then, I have to keep
> > turning MSAA mode on and off and going through all kinds of
> > machanations to get the damned thing reset.  Plus, that's not counting
> > the eleven outages I've had since July 18th!
> >
> > Not only that, Frontier treats me like a child.  They call their
> > routers modems, like I'm a five year old kid that can't call going to
> > the bathroom anything but going weewee.  They think it is always *my*
> > fault when something goes wrong, it *must* be my fault, I'm the
> > customer, and the customer is always wrong, doncha know!!
> >
> > Those telephone companies, at least Frontier Communications doesn't
> > know its ass from a hole in the ground.  They can't run their service
> > correctly, they don't know what's wrong with their equipment when
> > something breaks, and the whole thing is a SNAFU (situation Normal All
> > Fucked Up).  Excuse me, I'm sorry folks, I do not usually become so
> > vulgar, but I am disgusted with DSL, Frontier and the whole
> > technology.  I'm going to cable on Thursday, and I'm very, very glad
> > of it.  If you think that DSL can work in Linux, you need to pay for
> > the expensive kind, cuz the residential ADSL is for the birds!!!
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
> > --
> > 			Ann K. Parsons
> > email:  akp at eznet.net 			ICQ Number:  33006854
> > WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
> > "All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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