Rodney: If you live in an area where your only broadband connectivity options force you into a service which will only work with Microslop, you might have a most interesting and useful Sec. 255 complaint with the FCC. If anyone wants to pursue such a thing, contact me off list. On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote: > Thanks for describing to us the shit that it truly is. We are thinking > about moving to a small town and I just learned that the telephone > company provides DSL service but I was wondering if I would have trouble > as you so wonderfully described Ann. But it seems there has got to be > someway that all this shit can be bypassed so we can get to the milk. Any > ideas out there folks? > Rodney > > The Weaving Beaver > rclowdus at kcnet.com > "Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice." > "Weave your own cloth and it will reward you twice." > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Ann Parsons wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Forget DSL!!! Forget it!! If you want DSL you better be prepared to > > get the business kind because if you get ADSL they will force you into > > getting that damned SSG Dashboard crap that can not be accessed in > > Lynx w3 or anything but MSIE. This is their web interface to their > > routers. When you *can* access it with Gates' garbage, they have > > decided to write the whole damned thing in Java script. It takes me > > twenty to thirty minutes to reset my DSL when they time it out, which > > they do every week or so. Why does it take that long? I have to > > reboot into Windows. Then, I have to access the Dashboard. Then, I > > have to find the stupid links to the edit boxes which are not labeled > > correctly so that the MSAA works properly. Then, I have to keep > > turning MSAA mode on and off and going through all kinds of > > machanations to get the damned thing reset. Plus, that's not counting > > the eleven outages I've had since July 18th! > > > > Not only that, Frontier treats me like a child. They call their > > routers modems, like I'm a five year old kid that can't call going to > > the bathroom anything but going weewee. They think it is always *my* > > fault when something goes wrong, it *must* be my fault, I'm the > > customer, and the customer is always wrong, doncha know!! > > > > Those telephone companies, at least Frontier Communications doesn't > > know its ass from a hole in the ground. They can't run their service > > correctly, they don't know what's wrong with their equipment when > > something breaks, and the whole thing is a SNAFU (situation Normal All > > Fucked Up). Excuse me, I'm sorry folks, I do not usually become so > > vulgar, but I am disgusted with DSL, Frontier and the whole > > technology. I'm going to cable on Thursday, and I'm very, very glad > > of it. If you think that DSL can work in Linux, you need to pay for > > the expensive kind, cuz the residential ADSL is for the birds!!! > > > > Ann P. > > > > -- > > Ann K. Parsons > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
