[RP TownTalk] fiber optic service is coming

[cranky old coot]

Sara and Alan must be asleep at the switch!  There is no justest.

Guilty as charged.

Roland Walker wrote:
>>  There is no reason to call people names Roland.
>>     
>
> On the contrary Louis!  I can think of dozens of reasons to call you
> names like "cranky old coot" or "eccentric geezer" -- but I would
> never do so, because those names would violate the posting guidelines!
>
> But, since certain names can apparently get past the moderators, let
> me list some reasons I might call you a Nerd
>
>    * You personally own a four-character dictionary-word dotcom domain name (!)
>
>    * You are dually credentialed with Nerd degrees in both computer and audio
>
>    * You have an entire business devoted to your nerdy audio hobby
>
>    * During the last town election, you tested each candidate's
> website against the
>      W3C markup validator at http://validator.w3.org
>
> Ride shotgun with me next weekend, Louis.  I'm going to cruise College
> Park to check their fiber-optic lines.  We can break for lunch at
> College Perk Coffeehouse, where we can update our livejournals over
> the WiFi.  Do you think they have support for 802.11n?
>
> R
>
> On 8/13/07, Lou King <lking at knob.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Dear Hopeless Nerd,
>>
>>  I sure hope verizon will provide better service here than my daughter
>> received in VA. (Yes, nerdeness tech savvy is hereditary) To shorten the
>> long saga, installation did not go well (4 days off work), she gave up on
>> the internet connection after 3 months and now is shopping for cable. Tech
>> support is dismal/nonexistent. On the other hand the phone does work.  Of
>> course, being a workaholic she's never at home to answer it. Most of her
>> friends gave up during installation.
>>
>>  I understand the internet was like the girl with the curl in the middle of
>> her forehead - "When she was good she was vary vary good, But when she was
>> bad she was horrid! My daughter got tired of paying for what she wasn't
>> getting and verizon agreed they couldn't provide reliable service. Really
>> sad.
>>
>>  On the other hand I get DSL from my ISP. I let them deal with verizon (who
>> of course owns all the wires). The difference is that their verizon bill is
>> MUCH bigger than mine; When they speak someone listens. They can also test
>> the connection towards me and tell verizon where the signal stops.
>>
>>  There is no reason to call people names Roland. They will turn the monitor
>> button on if you can't be nice!
>>
>>  another HN
>>
>>  Roland Walker wrote:
>>
>> Last year, the town granted a cable television franchise to Verizon,
>> in anticipation of Verizon bringing their FIOS fiber-optic service to
>> our area. FIOS can carry internet, voice, and video. See
>>
>>  http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS
>>
>> I drove throughout town today, checking for where the fiber optic
>> lines were installed (a neighbor showed me how to identify them).
>> Definitely more than half of the streets have been cabled -- probably
>> up to 75%.
>>
>> I believe there are some other hopeless nerds in town who, like me,
>> think that this is momentous news.
>>
>> Note to the nerds: sending this to the list allows us all to pretend
>> that I don't already know *exactly* who you are.
>>
>> R
>>     
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