he never heard of satellite internet?
No argument here. Comcast is THE WORST!
That being said, the article seems like just more propaganda pushing government intervention and a “right” to universal broadband.
Verizon Wireless must be good competition for that title though
Does he have a working smart phone?
Should have required the seller to guarantee it’s availability.
Is it possible to license a point to point microwave link? Maybe a high gain millimeter wave link. If he close enough to high speed internet somebody could rig up something for him.
What an expensive mistake, on both sides. It’s easy for me to armchair quarterback now, after the fact, but he should have paid $100. and had the Comcast man come out first, before the home sale was completed. To be fair, Wifi and other communication systems are still relatively new to us, meaning they have been in heavy public use for less than 25 years. There are going to be lessons yet to be learned.
Not even a good employee can keep up with all technologic changes. Maybe they really thought he could be connected.
Poor Seth.
I sympathize... Believe me I too know the heartache of Broadband infrastructure dysfunction. I use DSL I am at the far end of the distribution circle for the nearest “active” box.
However just 3/10ths of a mile from me is a BRAND NEW high speed internet connection box. Alas... It’s just there hooked up to the electric meter. It does nothing else. Why you might ask? Well according to my provider they received a grant from the government to install these new boxes every where so as to bring the joy of High Speed Broadband service to the rural country side. Yea them!
Unfortunately they didn’t get a grant to actually connect them with Fiber Optic cable. At least as far as my particular ‘box’ is concerned. And because there won’t be as much revenue from my rural area to pay for adding the infrastructure backbone as it costs them to install it... we won’t be seeing the new box start working to provide us with high speed internet service.
Caveat Emptor.
So, Seth is one of those guys who writes bad things about right wing terrorists on the internet? The article doesn’t say what his business but couldn’t rent an office in a town nearby to do his business till he can get it at home? I really can’t think of a profession that can ONLY be done from home.
Try Hughes Net
I have had Verizon Fios in Arnold, Maryland and Comcast in Florida....I would take Comcast any day of the week over Verizon Fios. Comcast is one of the best cable companies out there. And they are conservative too.....not to shabby a company at all.
Just about any member or retired member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, including me, would be happy to set up a long range wireless connection or link, and handle the business end, installation, and even any necessary contracts for a reasonable fee. Alas, these days most people want it all, and they’re unwilling to pay for it. The few that want truly bulletproof custom solutions and expect enormous challenges to be met and exceeded - and who are willing to pay a little for it - are the reason I eat thick steaks!
The geniuses in the town government where I live gave Charter Communications an exclusive but Charter simply chose not to bother with the four residence on my mille long, dead end street.
Ed Rendell made millions from them.
So I finally sent them a video of me standing in the alley right next to my building and a friend who worked for The Phone Company standing in the alley next to the Phone Company building and I threw him a softball. I sent that video to him from my house which was farther away from that building and I had their DSL Internet there.
They still said it wasn't close enough because on the screen he was reading it was 30 miles or more away. I said well then maybe I should sign up with the Yankees or QB for the Browns because I just through a softball over thirty miles! I then asked for a supervisor and he looked at the video and said sir someone will be out tomorrow to install your service.
Bottom line if it is on the screen of the screen reader then it is canon and cannot be denied even though reality is telling them different.
I don’t get why the guy didn’t double and triple check if he was moving to a remote area without many people-it does not make sense.
Unfortunately, there is no profit for a big company in bringing services like cable, broadband, etc to remote rural areas-I live in one-we have heard promises of broadband from AT&T and one other company for the last 10 years, but it never got closer than 20 miles from here-the only “town” in the county-it has less than 900 people-there just aren’t enough people to make such a thing worthwhile in an area that is just farms, ranches and little enclaves here and there.
I have HughesNet, but there are other sat companies-they all seem to be about the same in price and service.
There is no cable TV here either for the same reason-I’ve had DirecTV since I lived in the burbs anyway.
He should have talked to the neighbors...
Welcome to my world.
This is an outrage. What we need is a huge government agency to take over the internet and guarantee fairness and neutrality when it comes to internet service. Everyone should have the same speed regardless. It’s only fair. Soon we will have blinding fast speeds of 9600bps with a whopping 10 megabytes of data. If only we had a government run by liberals this utopia would be possible....
Do i really need to say sarcasm?