[178584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Feb 28 19:38:05 2015
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:37:41 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@paradoxnetworks.net>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2/28/2015 6:17 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Mind you, the truly annoying part of this story (for me) is knowing
> Telus has fibre pedestals not a block away, with enough bandwidth to
> serve up IPTV to all the condos in the neighbourhood. But I'm in the
> marina across the street. Since there are only a handful of us here
> with service of any sort, they aren't about to come out and reroute us
> to the fibre pedestal. So I get to stay on the very long and corroded
> copper circuit back to one of the original downtown Vancouver
> exchanges. As one of the Telus techs said when he came out to help
> troubleshoot a failing DSL modem: I am amazed it works at all :-) And
> he's right -- the dB line losses are horrific. --lyndon
The question is, if YOU paid for the fiber to be run to their ped, would
they hook you up?
Jack
