Looks like someone jumped the gun a little too quickly on that one!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Matthew Steven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew@geniusweb.com">matthew@geniusweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Looks like this is haha is from Ames today:<br>
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<a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/2116252/DSL-Installation-Fail" target="_blank">http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/2116252/DSL-Installation-Fail</a><br>
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/"Here's an example of fine Qwest workmanship. In our business park,<br>
they just installed a DSL connection<br>
<<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bablakely/QwestFail#" target="_blank">http://picasaweb.google.com/bablakely/QwestFail#</a>> for our neighbors,<br>
for which we share an exterior utility space. They left: a DSL modem<br>
stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside<br>
in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural<br>
gas meters in some of the driest air of the year. They also left it<br>
plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank, with<br>
network cables running around the building, through snowbanks, coupled<br>
and protected by zip-lock baggies, and into our neighbors office. Not to<br>
mention the hack-job of patching the phone cable directly into the<br>
demarcation box. And if you're wondering — I was told upon calling them<br>
that this is not their problem, and I need to contact my primary phone<br>
service provider."<br>
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--<br>
Matthew Steven<br>
<a href="http://www.geniusweb.com/" target="_blank">http://www.geniusweb.com/</a><br>
(515) 999 0842<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Scott Prader<br>Undergraduate Electrical Engineer<br>CARC, SSCL<br><a href="mailto:sprader@iastate.edu" target="_blank">sprader@iastate.edu</a><br><br>