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

[Scott Prader]

Looks like someone jumped the gun a little too quickly on that one!

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Matthew Steven <matthew at geniusweb.com>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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Scott Prader
Undergraduate Electrical Engineer
CARC, SSCL
sprader at iastate.edu
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