[BC] Wideband in DC

[Robert Meuser]

sounds like you live in an older suburb with encapsulated loading coils. 1960s 
through 1980's

R

R J Carpenter wrote:
> Mark W Earle commented:
> 
>> A home high speed connection is $20-40/month.
> 
> 
> Not everywhere!
> 
> I live 15 miles from that big White House in DC.
> 
> Verizon's web site tells me that they can't supply me with ADSL.  It 
> would be close to $40 a month if they could.  They don't offer service 
> in much of Potomac, an upscale region near me. Potomac is upscale, but 
> the part I'm talking about has small lots.
> 
> Comcast can give me high speed computer access via their TV cable, but 
> it's $60 per month - same price with or without Basic Cable TV service. 
> About $45 if I already had TV cable - which I don't.
> 
> The weird thing is that I actually do have ADSL from Verizon and usualy 
> get 1.4 megabits per second.  They get overloaded some evenings and then 
> surfing is SLOW, slower than my old dialup service which I have kept.
> 
> bob c.
> 
> 
> 
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