[ale] isp questions

[Alex Carver]

On 2020-06-16 16:57, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> 
>> 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 

They can't let the service fail because that would disrupt 911 calls.
Once there's no spares they have to swap.  There's Charter cable and
AT&T copper service here.  No fiber is available in this area currently.
 They have FTTN but the node is very far away.