[162087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Resolver Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Apr 1 22:48:55 2013
In-Reply-To: <B9E5FA01-5FA4-4314-8B96-A31060FE50DC@arbor.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:48:43 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> Even in such populous areas as San Jose, there is a limited selection to=
a majority of the customers, especially if they want more than 1.5Mbps.
>
> I lived in San Jose for several years, and had several choices for broadb=
and - the one I chose was much faster than 1mb/sec, had an AUP which specif=
ically allowed me to run a server, and didn't try to cap my bandwidth, or d=
isable the use of p2p apps, or whatever.
>
> I moved away from San Jose in at the tail-end of 2007. It seems likely t=
hat at least the same level of choice prevails there today . . .
>
So, I lived in San Jose, too, for many years, and I had fewer choices
there than I do here now in the Pacific Northwest.
In any event, depending on where you are in the U.S., many consumers
have a choice between bad and worse. :-)
- ferg
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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
