Cable, Cisco 3000, Python -long (was Re: [SPAM] Re: SCP speed question)

[C M Reinehr]

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cmr

On Friday 12 January 2007 13:03, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Friday 12 January 2007 12:46, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > I would gladly dig a trench twice that long and pay an install fee twice
> > that amount to get cable at my house. But Cox / Suddenlink /
> > Whatevertheyrecalledthisweek does not wish to have any of my money. A
> > pox on them and their horse.
>
> Hey, be nice to the horses... they're hard enough to keep alive as it is
> (just had to put one down two weeks ago).  Colic.  yech.
>
> As for the cable company...  Check with Charter and Comcast and any other
> cable provider that *might* service your area.  I found Charter on a whim.
> Remember a few months back I had a discussion with David Bandel about
> wireless bridging over 5-10miles?  Well, while calling around to see how
> close I could find Cable or DSL, I happened upon Charter's sales guy who
> said he thought he could install to me.  I turns out that they have a main
> run down 1/3 mile from my house.  They charge roughly $3/ft for an aerial
> run and $6/ft for underground.  See if you can get someone technical (the
> surveyor) to contact you and talk dice.  Make sure he understands that you
> are not the average Joe who will balk at more than a couple hundred bucks
> for installation.
>
> That's how I got it.  They did schedule an install, the surveyor contacted
> me and said they couldn't do it.  I begged to differ, asking what
> "couldn't" meant.  He indicated the raw pricing and I asked for the actual
> estimate, and indicated that I might be willing to pay that much...  That
> was $4500.  The actual estimate came in at $3800.  I asked if there was any
> other way to shave off cost, but said to go ahead.  He talked to his boss
> and was able to shave off a bunch.  I asked again if there was anything
> else we could do and he mentioned that if I wanted to run the cable myself,
> we could speed up the process (it takes time and money to get permits to
> connect the cable to the power/telephone lines) and an awful lot of labor. 
> I had it done the next week and was installed in two.
>
> The really awesome part is that the construction installer, when he heard
> about me, decided not to contract out the hook up, but to do it himself and
> not charge me.
>
> One other thing.  Find out their fiscal year.  They'll have more budget
> to "assist" installation near the beginning of the year than at the end.
> Also, see if you can get others in the path to their facilities with
> interest in cable tv or Internet.  That will also "strengthen the numbers".
>
> All this got started on "accident", because I started asking around.
>
> >    self.Rant(stop=True)
>
> Nicely formatted Python, Michael!  Although if I were writing it, I'd make
> Rant it's own object, since we often go off on different rants at different
> times, sometimes a couple at a time...  so probably store multiple rants in
> a dict:
>
> 	self.rants['stupidcableco'].stop()
>
> ;)  Wow, I've been writing too much Python lately...  I just wrote a parser
> for Cisco VPN 3000 config files, particularly to spit out something
> intelligible rather than the discombobulated mess that Cisco saves.
>
> BTW, we don't have any Cisco 3000 config experts on here, do we??

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