[Dclug] internet connection with public IP

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:06:12PM -0500, Ed T. Toton III wrote:
>Surprisingly, you can be in rather new communities and not have many other 
>choices than IDSL. Where I am, we can't get regular DSL, and for years 
>cable internet wasn't available either, and these are houses built in 
>Cascades in Sterling, VA in '99 and 2000. Only about 5 miles from the AOL 
>and Worldcom campuses.

Yeah, newish communities are often SOL on FIOS. They're new enough that 
the telco saved a lot of money by using fiber trunks (so no DSL) but not 
new enough to have fiber to the home, and the telco has no incentive at 
all to lay new fiber. (Yours is probably buried, low maintenance, and 
only about a quarter depreciated.) 

(Hurray for 40 year old squirrel-gnawed overhead lines. :-)

Mike Stone