[BC] Primer on Internet Streaming

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I have a business account. It is called "Verizon for business." That is the only thing business-like about it. It came with a bill for $450.00 plus another for $600.00 until I "think" I got it straightened out.

The package was supposed to cost $69.99 per month which includes telephone and DSL. They lie. There was no service level agreement. You just take whatever crap they give you --and pay through the nose.

They provided a CD/DVD installation disk that thoroughly screwed up a brand-new Vista (which I hate) computer. No network capability, including LAN, existed after it was through. I needed to mount the SATA hard disk on a Linux machine, clear the partition tables, etc., and then completely reinstall Vista.

Then I configured the modem (without any documentation) by hacking around with the HTML configuration on the DSL modem. I figured out that it does PPOE, the defaults were okay, and I had to set the customer name and password to get Internet connectivity. Also, I remembered reading that the BusyBox (modem) default password was admin, both account and password. If I wasn't a customer with lots of experience it probably still wouldn't be running because I don't speak Indian, nor understand the international customer-service language.

No other Internet service is available in this business park, except various "T" services. Next year, they will install fiber, but unfortunately it is Verizon.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Zetekoff" <wa4zlw at backwoodswireless.net>

Hi there...

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That may be on a residential or consumer account but what about a
business account? What does the SLA say? I work now for PAETEC and I
know we do not throttle. When I worked for a Wireless ISP in Northern VA
(from my house in PA) we didn't do that either. We did do some stuff
with peer-2-peer at one time to cut down that bandwidth gobbler.

Consumer/residential accounts usually don't have SLAs. Check the SLA.

Leon