Ch 7, the News Station

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 00:01:15 -0400, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu> said:

> On Thursday, August 18, 2016, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>> Brookline has both Comcast and RCN.  I think RCN is also in Somerville.
>> Maybe other places as well.

> I meant customer wise. I can't think of one person I know who has RCN. Very
> unscientific, of course. I know RCN is making a renewed push in Boston and
> is wiring more of the city (e.g. South Boston), but it's  20 years too
> late.

I have RCN business Internet at home, and Comcast video/phone.  It
would be somewhat harder to do the reverse because of where the wires
in my condo go, but I could make it work.  Or I could dump both for
FiOS.  (The RCN Internet replaced Speakeasy DSL that I dumped after VZ
started sabotaging the few remaining good copper pairs -- it's about
the same price as I was paying but an order of magnitude faster.  I
ended up with RCN because Comcast wouldn't give me a straight answer
about whether I could have residential video and business Internet at
the same address.)

Changing the Internet setup in my home office is sufficiently painful
that I'm really only willing to do it once a decade or so.  (For one
thing, much of my mail processing depends on it, which is why it's
business service in the first place.)

-GAWollman