Alternatives to Comcast

[Bill McGonigle]

On May 21, 2008, at 08:03, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

> FYI, Speakeasy DSL is *NOT* PPPoE, it's the good stuff.

Last year in Lebanon, Residential DSL was PPPoE and Business DSL  
wasn't.  That tripped me up for 15 minutes or so on one office setup.

I have Dish Network for TV and it's fairly reasonable.  Some channels  
get more bandwidth love than others; on the CW channels they've  
recently implemented a weird compression that leaves afterimages on  
fade-to-blacks, but is otherwise unnoticeable.  Discovery is  
compressed to a degree that it's fine for everything except  
MythBusters  (Big Booms == Big Pixels).  I'd be happy to live with a  
longer delay if it meant variable bitrate, but alas.  It costs a bit  
under $40/mo for 'basic cable' with superstations and PBS.  I don't  
bother buying national networks because the FCC has decided I'm not  
allowed to receive NH programming in my area, only Burlington VT,  
which is useless to me.  Larger dishes mean less rain fade & vice  
versa.  If you're on the north side of a tall hill you're sunk.  If  
you have a tree in the way of your view of the Clarke Belt you need  
to make firewood.  When we were looking at homes I disqualified a few  
houses that had geographically obstructed views of the Clarke Belt,  
and the realtor thought I was weird.

-Bill

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