New England B.S. Thread

Yeah we get 1mb/s if lucky, so you are living the good life "too much internet" is a complaint I wish I could make. Our 4g in Hancock runs out at 15GB and running a business on that means we run out about the first week of each month and run 3g the rest of it. It's fucking rape from verizon and they will never get our buisness again once this "rural broadband" gets put in.

 

First one's a Chevy.

They're just the only trucks I can think of that have beds that actually measure 6x4

 

Do you have DSL at home? When I looked at the house out your way it seemed like it was almost exactly 3 miles from where the Verizon DSLAM was, so I wasn't optimistic. I had AT&T 4G LTE there outside, but inside was very spotty.

The school has fiber, but that's where it stops. If it's like the others in that district, it's probably 20 mbps.

 

I have DSL..I must be one of the last ones.

 

Its true. My chevy stepside was exactly 6x4

 

Just left Glock Smyrna. Nice cars here

 

Yeah we have DSL in Savoy, we are like 3 miles past where the DSL starts to degrade, so the promised 5mb/s have never come close. On a good day for a few minutes I can stream something, but most of the time I can't load a gif.

 

My mom has 3 mbps DSL because that's all she can get. It's not awful, but I barely pay more for 100 mbps cable.

 

That’s the thing, we aren’t paying like 5 bucks a month for it. I’m used to it by now but it’s pretty silly.

 

See what Direct or Dish can give you!

 

Most of the people I know who had satellite internet because they were just outside of the line distance for DSL were begging Verizon almost daily for even 1 meg. The latency of satellite makes it pretty awful for browsing. Plus, it seemed finicky whenever I've had to deal with it for any length of time.

DSL is slow, but at least it's consistent.

 

I was discouraged from going sat for net, because any online gaming will lag.

 

I have friends on florida mountain and they did hughes net or whatever satellite. The switched once their contract was up and just use their cell phones basically now.

 

OK,
I just use SAT for TV and it works well.
I thought they figured out I.P. by now.

 

Our Sat tv even goes out more than you would expect. It's the best we can get up here, but I won't be having any t.v. when we move out, if I ever go back I'll stream stuff, hopefully by then you can pick your channels.

 

My mom has to have a landline for DSL. Verizon stopped allowing for dry loop service, so if she kills the landline, she loses the DSL.

So, I think her landline is $40 and the DSL is $40. At that point she's paying $15 more than me for 1/40th the speed.

 

On a related note, I ditched Spectrum's TV today. They didn't argue or ask why or anything, just said "okay, new total is $65/month, bring your equipment to one of our stores."

The $25 Sling seems to work well in the little I've tried it tonight. Time will tell.

 

I'm surprised they didn't fight at all, but it must be happening so often they stopped.

 

I had heard it's Spectrum's thing to not haggle. Their CEO said something about it in an interview at one point.

 

I hate to bring this into the site, but do write you congress person or senator.
They are all well aware of the discrepancies in access across the country.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil.