Heh, I live in finance, and Verizon couldn't even run DSL.... They couldn't even give me DIAL TONE.. And yeah I can see their tower of darkness from here...
But I've dealt with telcos world wide, and they all have one thing in common.
they suck.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:28:17AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
> Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up.
> Available now.
And me brilliantly moving into non-Verizon territory. What was I thinking? :-D
-brian
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:28:17AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up.
Available now.
And me brilliantly moving into non-Verizon territory. What was I thinking? :-D
-brian
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Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable
people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month...
Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is
$150/month roughly.
wow what a great deal!... what isp is that?
Verizon FiOS.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
Peace... Sridhar
wow what a great deal!... what isp is that?
Hiya,
By "this week" and "next week" do you mean "next week" and "the week after"? Cos I thought you were coming next week now anyway!!
Well to be helpful ... next week (starting 9th) is fine Tuesday Wednesday & Friday. The week after (starting 16th) is OK Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. The week after that (starting 23rd) is out completely unless you turn up around 9am in the morning. Weekends I can't do until ... hmm about March, and evenings are complicated and need to be organised near to the time.
Can fit in with any of that ?
Chrissie
On 03/11/09 23:11, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Christine,
Terribly sorry about this, but turns out the guy I'm meant to drive down
from Leeds can't make it this week - how is next week looking for you?
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:37, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Oh god, my boiler is the same.
It used to crash every two or three weeks. And the plumber told me how
to refill it and reset it. In the end it turned out to be a very
slightly leaky radiator and it's been fine after that. I'm still
supposed to check the pressure now and then though.
/me goes off to do it while she remembers.
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:30, Sampsa Laine wrote:
OK, cool, we'll synchronise schedules with my friend, probably come up
on Wednesday or Friday (Wed ideally, I'm thinking the traffic into
London on Friday might be a lot of Epic Phail).
As for the boiler repair, it was free - only had it installed a few
months back (behind my spare freezer, which isn't so great). Turns out
it just needed a top-up - this involved the guy fiddling with two dials.
Now the stupid thing cost me thousands AND has a computer already built
in, how freaking hard can it be to make the topping-up thing automatic.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Ahhh No problem.
That week is fine apart from Monday and Thursday.
I hope the boiler doesn't cost too much to fix :S
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Oh crap, so it was - I ACTUALLY mean the week commencing the 9th -
sorry
about the confusion, been dealing with boiler repair guys all day.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Hiya
That's the week I thought you meant anyway! So that's fine.
My address is
39 St James Terrace
Horsforth
Leeds
LS18 5QT
Phone 0113 2288310
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 14:01, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Actually, if you can hold on to them for another week - i.e. the
week
commencing 2 Nov, I'd be able to synchronise giving my friend a
lift to
London with the pick up. If this is a problem, no worries, I'll
come up
on next Thursday.
sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 13:50, Christine Caulfield wrote:
On 27/10/09 12:41, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'll take the VAXstation and Alpha PWS if you can spare them and
the CD
drives - as for pick up, well I'm between jobs so it's no biggie,
could
come up next week if that works for you.
Yes, that's fine. I work from home so most days during the daytime
will be OK, apart from Wednesday morning. Just give me a day or
so's
notice when you'll be here and I'll be ready.
Chrissie
Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
Peace... Sridhar
Bob Armstrong wrote:
FWIW, the baseline electricity rate here is only 11 cents/kWh, but there's
a tiered rate schedule and the extra power pushes me into the 200-300% of
baseline category. That has a marginal rate of 38 cents/kWh.
I'm in a bulk-buy category, myself. The rates here go down as you buy more...
Peace... Sridhar
Steve Davidson wrote:
Sampsa,
You JUST moved! Looking to move again so soon???
FIOS (in NH) was DSL over fibre up to 20M down. If you are looking for
bandwidth look where Verizon competes with what used to be Bell South.
Another option might be in Washington State or some other high-tech area
with infrastructure that some big company paid for either directly or
indirectly.
Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up. Available now.
Peace... Sridhar
Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in
CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and
something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the
province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F -
doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates...
TOTALLY worth it. I don't go outside much anyway, and my computers keep the house uncomfortably warm in the dead of winter.
Peace... Sridhar
I donno... bar drinks? lol
I haven't gone to a unixy group thing in ages... I know the unix group on meetup.com doesn't have any meetings going on a the moment but that'd be cool....
What 'sucks' for me is that my company I work for wants to sublet the office space... But I have a dedicated T1 in there... I should be hosting more then I am now.... But I could always offer that much up....
Ive been playing with:
http://www.superglobalmegacorp.com/
I wouldn't feel bad about hosting a VM or something as when they decided whatever it is they are doing I'll have to get out there QUICK and I wouldn't want to mix up peoples hardware.... But VM's are so trivial to bounce around....
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people) and
> I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I think
> they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
> Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
>
> -- Sent from my Palm Pr
> ________________________________
> Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
>> fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
>> the rates.
>>
>>
>> That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how
>> much
>> can you get up/down?
>> Sampsa
>>
> Hello!
> Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
> figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
>
> I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
> when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
> all. This is before FIOS of course......
>
> My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
> opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
> one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
> accurate response from that office.
>
> And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
> their version of broadband access for some reason.....
>
Hello!
Well it happens I am always interested in an NYC meet. What did you
have in mind? I typically hang out at the NYLUG meetings, a NYLUG
meeting is do RSN, and then one for Open Solaris, that one is going to
be some what later.
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