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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>I really think once Uverse is "mostly available", the DSL is going to end up
>where ISDN is now, a legacy service that few of their people are going to
>know about it.

I would have loved ISDN, but AT&T fucked it up so it never became a
ubiquitous service unless you were provisioning a PBX.

I just thought it was cool that it was a switched service, unlike DSL.

>It's a dead end service. It's maxed out technology wise and it's biggest
>plus was the fact it could be placed on an already working copper voice
>line. In a lot of areas you can't even get the full benefit of it.

>Think I read somewhere with the recent "terms of service" update that put a
>cap on the downloading, they also are reserving the right to switch
>customers from traditional services to Uverse at their disgression.

>If that doesn't have the ring of death to it, dunno what does.

I see your point.

>If there is anything to complain about, it was the lack of skill on the
>installers part working on this kind of house, 100 year old stucco. He
>seemed to have a rough time setting anchors and drilling in general. Kind of
>took him by surprise finding 13" thick walls made up of cement, wire mesh,
>slats, gap, more slats, more mesh and plaster.

Interesting.

>>When Comcast knocks out Internet, it's out for days at a time, because
>>they never commit small screwups. My DSL has been rock solid, but
>>relatively slow versus cable Internet.

>I dunno, we'll see. I think there might be a power in numbers over here.

>Not really sure since a handful of them have Dish network setups but I think
>that 17 unit CHA housing thing behind us has Comcast going into all the
>units. Maybe the city provides the service to them, dunno.

>Just saying if there is a major outage, there might be someone else besides
>the few home owners on the block complaining about it.

They took out much of the northwest side of the city and it was intermitent
for weeks when they did that "upgrade" scheduled over a weekend.

You'll love it as much as I did!