Time for an internet change...
Apr. 20th, 2007 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusI got a call this evening from Verizon. They wanted to sell me fiber optic service.
I made the rep sing long and hard for his supper, but he answered my questions satisfactorily (at least those he could answer), and did make me a better offer. In a couple of weeks, we are scheduled to get the fiber pulled to our house, and the TV and internet connections set up. That means no more DSL and no more Dish Network. I'll be spending less each month for both services. I won't be getting up on a ladder after a wind storm to make the dish point at the satellite again.
I'm still keeping the antenna on the roof, because I want to be able to watch the Baltimore channels *and* the DC channels, but the "local package" insists that I am in the DC metro area, despite the fact that Baltimore TV towers are no farther away.
I made the rep sing long and hard for his supper, but he answered my questions satisfactorily (at least those he could answer), and did make me a better offer. In a couple of weeks, we are scheduled to get the fiber pulled to our house, and the TV and internet connections set up. That means no more DSL and no more Dish Network. I'll be spending less each month for both services. I won't be getting up on a ladder after a wind storm to make the dish point at the satellite again.
I'm still keeping the antenna on the roof, because I want to be able to watch the Baltimore channels *and* the DC channels, but the "local package" insists that I am in the DC metro area, despite the fact that Baltimore TV towers are no farther away.
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Date: 2007-04-21 11:40 am (UTC)