[Cialug] [Slightly OT] High-speed DSL availability in DSM metro

[David Bierce]

OMG That's the building next to mine!


On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Matthew Steven wrote:

> Looks like this is haha is from Ames today:
> 
> http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/2116252/DSL-Installation-Fail
> 
> /"Here's an example of fine Qwest workmanship. In our business park, 
> they just installed a DSL connection 
> <http://picasaweb.google.com/bablakely/QwestFail#> for our neighbors, 
> for which we share an exterior utility space. They left: a DSL modem 
> stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside 
> in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural 
> gas meters in some of the driest air of the year. They also left it 
> plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank, with 
> network cables running around the building, through snowbanks, coupled 
> and protected by zip-lock baggies, and into our neighbors office. Not to 
> mention the hack-job of patching the phone cable directly into the 
> demarcation box. And if you're wondering — I was told upon calling them 
> that this is not their problem, and I need to contact my primary phone 
> service provider."
> 
> /
> 
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> Matthew Steven
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