Broadband Bermuda Triangle

An anonymous coward sent in: "Mike from Techdirt has written an article in Salon.com about how he is the bermuda triangle of broadband, and how the government should kick him out of the country if they really want to save the broadband industry. Apparently, he's been kicked off 4 or 5 different broadband networks in the past year alone as each company went bankrupt or gave up the business."

Comments

Test the theory

[gandalf_grey]

Move to Redmond and observe. Let's see if we can put the phenomenon to work for the greater good!

Re:Test the theory

[Alien54]

Move to Redmond and observe. Let's see if we can put the phenomenon to work for the greater good!

Actually, he should see if MSN offers broadband. This might not hurt Microsoft, directly.

But he could express an interest in .Net which apparently would need a high speed connection.

Yes, there is hope in the world.

i'm the dot com bermuda triangle

[nocent]

hey, if this guy is the broadband bermuda triangle, i must be the dot com bermuda triangle.

all the sites i use and visit have gone bust. webvan...etoys...pets.com....my favorite site now is slashdot. hey wait a minute....

I don't exist--but I have free Internet access...

[Anonymous Coward]

I submitted an order with an ISP for DSL service 8 months ago and nothing came of it until one day a couple of techs from a business network provider came by my house and said, "Here's your IDSL router." After a quick hookup and entering the DNS variables provided by the ISP's homepage, I was on the Internet @ 144k both ways. I called the ISP and asked what I should do about payment and their response was, "Ummm... we cancelled your order so you're not in our computer." I called the busines network provider and they said, "Talk to your ISP." So I called the ISP a few more times and then they went bankrupt. Their DNS died, and so did my Internet access, for the 2 minutes it took for me to enter a DNS for a nearby college that now resolves all my queries. So the ISP no longer exists and I can't pay them, and the business internet provider that is my first hop says they don't do residential accounts so they won't take my money. Meanwhile, I have a Lucent router I've never paid for, an install I've never paid for, and continuing IDSL service that I've yet to pay for going on 2 months now. I'm wondering that if this could last indefinitely, perhaps I can turn it over as a feature when I sell the property...

"3 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 car garage, free Internet access for life..."

Mike Masnick, if you're reading this...

[BlueUnderwear]

Please check out www.broadwing.net. I've heard they've got great broadband offerings, and have a backbone based on all fiber. Even if you don't buy service from them, please take at least the time to phone them and ask them about their service. Thanks ;-)

Note to the audience: Broadwing is a nasty spam haven, and the world will be a much better place once they'll be out of business.

Oh, I did this years ago...

[jpellino]

We wrote a science book of BASIC programs for the Coleco Adam.
*Poof*
We re-wrote it for the PC-Jr.
*Double Poof*
The standing joke around the office was we were going to write a million-dollar ransom note to Apple...

Somehow Apple survived our publication. Guess we really weren't cursed after all.

(Before you snicker about the Adam, it was the start of Steve Perlman's "lets-get-large-amounts-of-readble-text-on-a-tv-di splay" fetish, which led to some of the first decent video convolution filters at Apple, and contributed to WebTV's set-top abilities, etc. etc...)
(OK - it also had a howitzer for a printer.)
(OK they did just as well at selling computers as IBM would do selling Cabbage Patch Kids.)