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

[Bob Hemus]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:56 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > On Friday 12 January 2007 12:46, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Thanks. Problem is I live in the Ozark foothills in rural north Arkansas. 
> Other than Cox/Suddenlink it's  a 30 minute drive to *any* other cable 
> provider. Literally. AT&T has DSL here and they could provide it to me at 
> minimal cost and effort. But they won't. After talking to the local techs, the 
> local managers, the corporate network provisioning engineers, and the 
> corporate tech support in both companies, I've concluded they both have some 
> kind of a blood oath with the devil which includes an irreversible condition 
> not to provide me Internet.
> 
> There's hope however, a guy a few miles down the road has started a WISP. He 
> already has 5 towers up and I've sent some of my best clients to him. But I'm 
> going to need one very impressive tower to get a microwave signal down into 
> this barrel I live in.

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> topic.InciteRiot()
> for exp in OpinionatedExperts:
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>      topic.PostReply("Your mother wears Army boots!", exp)
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> 
> Michael
Does AT&T provide local 'phone service?  We've a similar problem.  A
local telephone company that charges about $60+ for DSL.  They won't let
me connect to any other provider with 800 numbers.  My kids get DSL for
about what I pay for dial-up in the city.
Bob