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  1. Re:It's all highly ironic by Mercano · · Score: 1 · on Verizon Sells Off Rural Lines

    My parents live two or three miles up dirt in Hartland, VT, and have had DSL since Christmas 2000. Of course, Hartland also gets its phone service from one of those small phone companies , too(VTel (Not to be confused with the electronics manufacturer VTel)), so there you go.

  2. Re:wrong. by glaucopis · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The Problems with Broadband in America

    Rural areas in the US can have good connections, too -- most of Vermont, for one, pays less and gets more than those of us in urban areas.

    VTel offers 1.3 Mbps DSL throughout nearly all of Vermont and is introducing 8 Mbps DSL into the state for $34.95 a month. Whether you get the 1.3 or 8 Mbps for the price depends on whether 8 Mbps is available in your area yet; you get the highest speed available. And they often offer promotional two year contracts at a substantially lower rate. Not as good as your French connection, but (depending on your location in the 1.3 vs 8 Mbps rollout scheme) either better than average or wildly good by US (urban) standards. And connections are available just about everywhere; my parents' summer place at the end of a gravel road on a lake 30 minutes from the nearest town and 50 from anything that could be called a city has access.

    And note that Vermont is an extremely rural and extremely mountainous state, to the point where cell phone coverage is pretty spotty at any distance from major highways, and yet they still have excellent internet coverage. I think I heard that VTel got some grants initially to put in all the infrastructure, which explains the good coverage, but for some reason they persist in offering their service at a reasonable rate and in rolling their profits into actively upgrading that infrastructure. It seems almost un-American.

  3. Re:Ya, that's funny. by PhilHibbs · · Score: 2 · on Operation Acoustic Kitty

    Dammit, the link worked in preview! Here's the mirror.

  4. Another Mirror by Peale · · Score: 1 · on Furby Bounty Paid

    http://www.vermontel.ne t/~ vengnce/slashmirror/furby.html

  5. Another Mirror by Peale · · Score: 1 · on TiVo Hacked to Include Ethernet

    I've mirrored the page at http://www.verm ont el.net/~vengnce/slashmirror/tivo-ethernet.html

  6. Those Pics Are Nice. Here's Mine. by Peale · · Score: 2 · on Geeks in Suits

    For you Slashdotters out there, here are some pics of my wedding originally for Lewie, my best man (because we live so far apart)

    I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
    what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'

  7. Here's Another Mirror..... by Peale · · Score: 2 · on The Cat Cam

    You can see the images at
    http://www.vermontel.net/~vengnce/slashmirror/reco n_figure2.html
    Go easy on my server, please!

    I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
    what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'