[TriLUG] Telocity/DirecTVDSL defunct

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Mon Dec 16 12:09:22 EST 2002


Roadrunner locked me into a contract at one commercial site where they
had to shoot a cable over US 70 W and re-coup cabling expense.  It was 2
years.

Personally, they've always worked with me whenever I've had to make a
change.  Depending on how much you wanna pay, you can get quasi static
persistent IP as well.  With dynamic DNS, I did not have the need.

They are cool about letting me run a server, too.  I'm not trying to
sell anything, though.  So, I can't really call it a commercial server.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Fickenscher [mailto:lfickenscher at ppaengineering.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:06 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Telocity/DirecTVDSL defunct

Hmmm, when I signed up for RR they said I wasn't locked into a term
contract and I never had to sign one...
-Lee

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:02, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:54 AM, Chris Knowles wrote:
> 
> > So it looks like I'm getting a new broadband provider...
> >
> > Who do people recommend?  It looks like either BellSouth or
> > RoadRunner...
> >
> 
> If you go with RoadRunner be very careful to read every bit of the 
> contract. When I talked to the sales rep. recently he promised we
could 
> switch between levels of service in terms of bandwidth, and never 
> mentioned anything about being locked into the service for multiple 
> years. The contract he delivered actually doesn't allow switching 
> between levels of service, and locked me into using them for 3 years. 
> *(@*&#(! lying salesmen!
> 
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> character and public policy than the nation's highways.
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