Galaxy Internet Services?

[Chadwick]

On Thu, 31 May 2007 23:52:53, John Chambers <jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | If there is another way to get DSL or FIOS without going through
> | Verizon around here, then it is news to me.  AFAIK, they own
> | everything and ``lease'' certain services out to ``service providers''
> | (maybe better thought of as vendors), then turn around and sell their
> | own services for less.  It's up to you, do you want to have to call
> | the monopoly, or the business that depends on your money to survive?
>
> We have speakeasy on our Verizon phone line, for thre reasons. One is
> kinda  strange:  Verizon  said we were too far for DSL, but speakeasy
> said "Yeah, no problem." Why speakasy can do it over a  Verizon  line
> when  Verizon  can't  isn't obvious, unless Verizon was simply lying.
> Also, Verizon is known to block ports,  but  speakeasy  doesn't,  and
> they encourage running your own servers.
>

Hmm..  maybe Verizon doesn't own everything after all.  Is it possible
that Speakeasy is using someone else for demarcation?  Or is it
possible that Verizon is too lazy to do IDSL or something of that ilk,
but Speakeasy is more than happy to? . .?

> The third reason is that the few times  I've  talked  to  speakeasy's
> support  people,  when  I  tell them I have a linux firewall, I could
> hear the smiles on their faces.  They instantly switched to geek mode
> and  told me what I wanted to know without the usual baby talk.  It's
> nice to know that there are helpful, cooperative people  available to
> help with problems.

Actually, now that I recall, even though Galaxy was always more than
helpful, they were a big m$$$ operation, with only the sys-admin and
webmaster as real linux geeks (or maybe just the webmaster.)  But
everyone knew about it.  The policy pretty much was provisioning a
line, but not your network.... your network is your problem.  Many
people were belligerent when I called them up and said, "You have a
DSL line that you can plug into and get the Internet, pay up.. "  Of
course, they didn't know that.. because they never plugged in!!

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Chadwick

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