finally got interwebs at the new place today through verizon.
problems encountered: tornados last year knocked down the telephone pole in the backyard so the dsl line from the switch had to be rerun and double-backed over itself on the poles in front of the building, adding a ridiculous amount of additional line length and degrading the signal down to just over 2000 kbps (which is pretty damn shitty when you consider that it cusps the 3.0 and the 1.6 packages so you either get a modem that freaks out and hides in the corner over and over because it can’t find the 3.0 line or you get steady by downgrading to a 1.6 bitrate).
plus sides? i got 7 months of free service and only $20/mo thereafter for all the crap i called them on (we’re prolly just gonna use this line to run a quiet little server for cuckoobrain soon), and after speaking with the tech who stopped by i was informed that our co has fiber to the switch and we’ll likely be able to upgrade to fios by the end of the year if we would like that kind of thing. hurr durr maypees? he agleed.
solution: i just ordered 10 mbps service (with option to upgrade to 15 mbps for an additional $10/mo) through the only broadband isp available around here (no fiber here yet and we’re around the corner from the office ops building and the loom building and office ops only rocks bonded t1 connex as of yet; lord knows they would be the first in the ‘hood to drop dough and get fo tubes) and i’ve seen their trucks around the corner by this one sidewalk access grate off and on since moving here and today i saw them parked up with a fiber-services truck, so who knows on that one now, ya know?
shee-it, i’m almost ready to fuckin’ pick up a few 1000’ spools of fiber and run this shit to a local switch my damn self.
ok … now where did i put my black turtleneck, black skullcap, and that bag of zipties…