[geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service

[Big Endian]

>   I've already tried that... I even had a sit-down meeting
>with Adelphia's district manager. The end result was
>"No Way".  She insisted that the installation had to
>be carried out by "Qualified" installers. They absolutely
>refused to hook up to a customer-supplied cable.  I even
>tried to get them to install to a shed located near the
>pedistal, but she considerd the fiber drop  that I was
>going to run to the shed as a customer-supplied cable
>extension)
>
>   I then proceeded to complain at a county cable board
>meeting about the installation costs, but was told that
>$4.00 a foot was "reasonable" and that the contract
>between the county and Adelphia did not put any
>restrictions on it (I even procured a copy of the
>cable contract... they weren't lying)...
>
>What really hurts about all this is that when I
>bought my house back in `92, the previous owner
>told me that the cable company had offered to
>run a line up to it for free. He absolutely
>refused (He was an "anti-TV" proponent).  When
>I bought the house, I inquired about it and
>they told me it would now be $1.00 a foot...
>but being a new home owner, I didn't have the
>spare cash at the time, so I put it off for a
>year. The next year when I had the cash, I tried
>to submit an order, and was informed that it
>would now be $3.00 a foot (The cable deregulation
>act had just passed a few months earlier). Now
>it's $4.00 a foot.  I give up.
>
>So, as a result, I've been exploring alternatve
>connection schemes.
>
>BTW, is anyone here on the corporate board at Adelphia ;-)
>
>-al-  "Connectionless in Fredericksburg" (Sounds like
>a movie title, doesn't it :-)

Could you put up an RF tower somewhere?  If so things could probably 
be worked out w/ a point ot point RF link into DSL range or 
something.  The latencies would *SUCK* but it would get you some 
speed.

daniel
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