[ale] isp questions

DJ-Pfulio DjPfulio at jdpfu.com
Tue Jun 16 19:57:44 EDT 2020


> If I can wait a bit longer they may have to upgrade the neighborhood
> on their dime instead of mine.  Right now the copper system is very
> old and deteriorating.  I've had to have the line crew out twice
> because the pair I was on had degraded.  On the last visit the crew
> told me that the neighborhood only had two spare pairs, all the
> others were in use. Because of the two calls the two spares are gone
> and we're now with zero spares.  They told me one more outage would
> force them to replace everything because they would not have the
> spares.  So we'll see what happens.

Don't be on that until 50% of the connections are failed and then they
may just drop wired service since the FCC thinks everyone can use 5G
instead.

in my neighborhood, Comcast Business is completely separate from
Xfinity.  They have outages that i do not.  We have ATT fibre and i've
been thinking about switching but just can't pull the trigger due to 


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