[ale] isp questions

[Bob]

Hi J.D.,

It looks like you were cutoff in mid-sentence.  I'm curious as to why 
you are thinking of switching to comcast business (I think that's what 
you were suggesting) and why you haven't pulled the trigger?

--Bob


On 2020-06-16 7:57 p.m., 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
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