Re: OT: Wireless Internet

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop wrote:
> For what it's worth, I would never give up landlines, especially were I
> living in America and fortunate to have the services of a company as
> good as Verizon. You only know how ghastly the rest are when you are
> elsewhere.
Must be ghastly indeed. I have had "inside wire maintenance" (a
scam: if you don't have it, no matter what the problem, Verizon
tells you it's caused by your equipment, and it's not
responsible) for years. Makes no never mind.
For the second time this year, my phoneline is so riddled with
static that I cannot get online at more that 33,333 K/sec (and
that was once, for two minutes; most of the time for the past
week it has run the gamut from 260 bps to a blazing 18,600 K);
today when I tried to call a store, I had to use my cell phone,
the connection was so bad I couldn't hear the voice mail
instructions. (My eyes may be lousy, but my hearing is still
quite good.)
Last time it happened, two clueless dweebs came, puttered about
in the cellar and my flat, and finally said, "Yeah, we can hear
the static; we don't know what's causing it." And walked away.
Furthermore (but this, to be fair, is not so much Verizon's fault
as that of the radio stations involved--and the crook at the FCC
whom they're bribing) the whole town is blanketed with RFI from a
couple of radio stations in the Jersey Meadows, whose
transmitters are right on a line of sight with my front windows.
You don't need to turn on the radio to listen to them; just pick
up a phone. Everybody has those RMI filters, which help a bit.
But our church had to get a whole new sound system, because the
talk shows were leaking into the homilies.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx