I have a POTS line from them, and I'm approximately 5000-6000 feet to the terminal, which is well within the line attenuation for 6mbps. They simply won't provide the service no matter how many hours I spend on the phone getting bounced from dept. to dept. to dept. It's rather kafka'esque in fact. And I work in telecom and was in line communications for the military, so at the bare minimum I'd like an answer as to why they won't provide me with the DSL service. They won't even confirm the availability of a port in the terminal. They won't say anything beyond "the computer says 'not available'". Good luck getting a hold of somebody who is local, btw.
During the 1990s before the RBOC's gamed the system by running fiber-to-the-node, they were required by law to give equal access to CLEC's to straight copper runs. At different points in time I had Sprint's ION service as well as various DSL's from Speakeasy/Covad. The law was intended to push the RBOC's to hasten FTTP roll-outs, but the loophole cost us, the citizens, all that competition that had actually sprouted up. At one time I even lived directly behind the CO for my area, and they could have run ethernet from their building to my apartment, but instead ran it as fiber around the block to a terminal, and then copper from there. I had to fight with AT&T (then SBC, after they bought up Ameritech which used to be IL Bell) to get a straight copper run so I could still use Speakeasy instead of AT&T's crappy adsl service. And now where I live we're on a fiber run of several km to the node in the neighborhood, so I can only get service via AT&T. And yet AT&T won't provide me even their old crappy adsl service here because... well they'll never give me the actual reason - others have service here and the linemen have confirmed to me that there's ports in the terminal that could be used.
Problem is one of history already. Ma Bell always sucked, but at least once upon a time they were truly regulated as a utility, and they also had Bell Labs which had some redeeming value to it. Then the 1980's and 90's come around, and we smash Ma Bell up into the RBOC's. Except now all the RBOC's have been slowly reforming like the T1000 in slow motion to return to being Ma Bell, except now with very little regulation. Just look at that stooge and his stupid oversized coffee cup at the head of the FCC for all your answers to the questions of "what do the next few years have in store for us in the realm of telecommunications and internet access?"
All over Israel the McDonald's use automated ordering kiosks instead of human beings. There's about 3-4 actual humans working in any given McDonald's branch. And I can assure you that there's no $15 equivalent minimum wage in Israel, yet this still happened, and it's what McDonald's USA has a wet dream for. It will happen, and it will happen a lot sooner than you realize, regardless of any regional or even national minimum wage.
When it comes to computer equipment, I find it much easier to use Newegg to search. And also Newegg gets points from me for taking on patent trolls, while Amazon itself is a patent troll.
I could swear this site is getting more and more like those rags you see on the shelf at the supermarket checkout lines. Quick, better go buy a copy of Us or the National Enquirer!
The T1000 reformed again to be Ma Bell except without all that pesky regulation they used to need to be in compliance with. Also now there's no Bell Labs or other real R&D like there was in the old days. In the meantime, unless i throw a mortgage payment at them every month, I won't get any internet service from them even though my neighborhood IS wired for their old 6mbps/768kbps dsl service, and I'm well within range of the DSLAM.
Let's see... this data appears to cover multiple years, and we have 848 convictions. Even in a single election year 848 isn't even noise or a rounding error...
...for various values of "pointless". I'd like to see those old folks who always seem to have coffee at McD's in the late morning operating those kiosks without any frustration...
Yes, if you're holding out for free minutes, you're going to be waiting a long time. But at least in the USA DID market there's ITSP's that are very reasonably priced, especially if you're not burning through the minutes. (As somebody who works in this industry, I actually don't make or receive many calls because... well... I'm just sick of them.:-) )
You can always run your own FreeSWITCH server and set whatever you want for your ringtone. That functionality has been around since the beginning of that project, which is at least 10 years old now. I don't remember but it's possible that Asterisk also allowed for this - I just haven't touched Asterisk since FreeSWITCH.
I'm not sure if the ISDN standards allowed user-defined ringback tones in early media, and those standards were initially defined circa 1988. Nowadays it's just 2 commands in a dialplan for me to set whatever I want, but it's usually something very annoying.:-)
Just because you sign something does not defacto make it binding. This is why most contracts have a clause that states that if any provision is found illegal or otherwise not-binding, it does not impact the remainder of the contract. That normally doesn't prevent the contract writer from adding creative ideas to the contract even if he/she knows that it cannot be enforced.
As soon as somebody tries to cut off the blood money that TSA gets, the TSA starts shrieking about every shadow out there. Seriously, wtf is the connection between what happened in London and what you're allowed to bring into the cabin of an airplane? And what the f'ing f, a 9V battery is somehow worse than 6 AA batteries???? If they try to enact this, I hope they get run out of the airports and told to stick it where the sun don't shine.
Lost in the noise is the fact that at least according to the KXAN article I saw about this a few days ago, the Trump administration's budget for October would "significantly" cut the TSA's operating budget. This smells like a vague attempt to justify returning the budget due to an imaginary engineered threat. (In other words, an attempt to justify the need for the TSA and the big fat check they get.)
...but what is the benefit to me, the consumer, in this service? With all this effort put into monitoring devices and otherwise being a nanny-device, stopping by my local Alamo Drafthouse never looked better and less restrictive...
But even if you're local to where the tomato production is, you STILL have to go out of your way to get tomatoes that have any real flavor to them. That's what's so frustrating.
I've rarely tasted a tomato in this country that gave me a wow. Almost all the time they taste like plastic. The exception is home grown tomatoes. So this is just another attempt to increase yields and to hell with concerns over flavor.
We're all made to board nude and chained to our seats and made to row across the ocean? As it is, I'm just waiting for them to announce "credible" evidence that ISIS has converted baby formula into a bomb capable of bringing down an airliner...
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I have a POTS line from them, and I'm approximately 5000-6000 feet to the terminal, which is well within the line attenuation for 6mbps. They simply won't provide the service no matter how many hours I spend on the phone getting bounced from dept. to dept. to dept. It's rather kafka'esque in fact. And I work in telecom and was in line communications for the military, so at the bare minimum I'd like an answer as to why they won't provide me with the DSL service. They won't even confirm the availability of a port in the terminal. They won't say anything beyond "the computer says 'not available'". Good luck getting a hold of somebody who is local, btw.
During the 1990s before the RBOC's gamed the system by running fiber-to-the-node, they were required by law to give equal access to CLEC's to straight copper runs. At different points in time I had Sprint's ION service as well as various DSL's from Speakeasy/Covad. The law was intended to push the RBOC's to hasten FTTP roll-outs, but the loophole cost us, the citizens, all that competition that had actually sprouted up. At one time I even lived directly behind the CO for my area, and they could have run ethernet from their building to my apartment, but instead ran it as fiber around the block to a terminal, and then copper from there. I had to fight with AT&T (then SBC, after they bought up Ameritech which used to be IL Bell) to get a straight copper run so I could still use Speakeasy instead of AT&T's crappy adsl service. And now where I live we're on a fiber run of several km to the node in the neighborhood, so I can only get service via AT&T. And yet AT&T won't provide me even their old crappy adsl service here because... well they'll never give me the actual reason - others have service here and the linemen have confirmed to me that there's ports in the terminal that could be used.
Problem is one of history already. Ma Bell always sucked, but at least once upon a time they were truly regulated as a utility, and they also had Bell Labs which had some redeeming value to it. Then the 1980's and 90's come around, and we smash Ma Bell up into the RBOC's. Except now all the RBOC's have been slowly reforming like the T1000 in slow motion to return to being Ma Bell, except now with very little regulation. Just look at that stooge and his stupid oversized coffee cup at the head of the FCC for all your answers to the questions of "what do the next few years have in store for us in the realm of telecommunications and internet access?"
Not everybody is capable of being a skilled laborer or skilled professional.
All over Israel the McDonald's use automated ordering kiosks instead of human beings. There's about 3-4 actual humans working in any given McDonald's branch. And I can assure you that there's no $15 equivalent minimum wage in Israel, yet this still happened, and it's what McDonald's USA has a wet dream for. It will happen, and it will happen a lot sooner than you realize, regardless of any regional or even national minimum wage.
When it comes to computer equipment, I find it much easier to use Newegg to search. And also Newegg gets points from me for taking on patent trolls, while Amazon itself is a patent troll.
I could swear this site is getting more and more like those rags you see on the shelf at the supermarket checkout lines. Quick, better go buy a copy of Us or the National Enquirer!
The T1000 reformed again to be Ma Bell except without all that pesky regulation they used to need to be in compliance with. Also now there's no Bell Labs or other real R&D like there was in the old days. In the meantime, unless i throw a mortgage payment at them every month, I won't get any internet service from them even though my neighborhood IS wired for their old 6mbps/768kbps dsl service, and I'm well within range of the DSLAM.
Let's see... this data appears to cover multiple years, and we have 848 convictions. Even in a single election year 848 isn't even noise or a rounding error...
...for various values of "pointless". I'd like to see those old folks who always seem to have coffee at McD's in the late morning operating those kiosks without any frustration...
Yes, if you're holding out for free minutes, you're going to be waiting a long time. But at least in the USA DID market there's ITSP's that are very reasonably priced, especially if you're not burning through the minutes. (As somebody who works in this industry, I actually don't make or receive many calls because... well... I'm just sick of them. :-) )
You can always run your own FreeSWITCH server and set whatever you want for your ringtone. That functionality has been around since the beginning of that project, which is at least 10 years old now. I don't remember but it's possible that Asterisk also allowed for this - I just haven't touched Asterisk since FreeSWITCH.
I'm not sure if the ISDN standards allowed user-defined ringback tones in early media, and those standards were initially defined circa 1988. Nowadays it's just 2 commands in a dialplan for me to set whatever I want, but it's usually something very annoying. :-)
Just because you sign something does not defacto make it binding. This is why most contracts have a clause that states that if any provision is found illegal or otherwise not-binding, it does not impact the remainder of the contract. That normally doesn't prevent the contract writer from adding creative ideas to the contract even if he/she knows that it cannot be enforced.
As soon as somebody tries to cut off the blood money that TSA gets, the TSA starts shrieking about every shadow out there. Seriously, wtf is the connection between what happened in London and what you're allowed to bring into the cabin of an airplane? And what the f'ing f, a 9V battery is somehow worse than 6 AA batteries???? If they try to enact this, I hope they get run out of the airports and told to stick it where the sun don't shine.
Lost in the noise is the fact that at least according to the KXAN article I saw about this a few days ago, the Trump administration's budget for October would "significantly" cut the TSA's operating budget. This smells like a vague attempt to justify returning the budget due to an imaginary engineered threat. (In other words, an attempt to justify the need for the TSA and the big fat check they get.)
...but what is the benefit to me, the consumer, in this service? With all this effort put into monitoring devices and otherwise being a nanny-device, stopping by my local Alamo Drafthouse never looked better and less restrictive...
You are lucky then. I, on the other hand, suffer plastic. :-)
But even if you're local to where the tomato production is, you STILL have to go out of your way to get tomatoes that have any real flavor to them. That's what's so frustrating.
Never bite into a styrofoam cup even by accident?
I've rarely tasted a tomato in this country that gave me a wow. Almost all the time they taste like plastic. The exception is home grown tomatoes. So this is just another attempt to increase yields and to hell with concerns over flavor.
Remember - there's always rule 34...
I think we got a long way to go before we reach that point. Mostly because those with the means to do anything are purposely overworked.
We're all made to board nude and chained to our seats and made to row across the ocean? As it is, I'm just waiting for them to announce "credible" evidence that ISIS has converted baby formula into a bomb capable of bringing down an airliner...