[clue-tech] DNS lookups take a looooooong time SOLVED!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 06 April 2007 17:12, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Wow, after reading the TOS -- I'm amazed Comcast is even in business.
> Apparently you're only allowed to use what, Gopher?  And only if you
> keep it below 5 KB/s.
>
> Hah.  :-)
>
> Amazing.
>
> The backlash from pissed off customers *is* coming for the ISP's that
> do this stuff, sooner or later... no one really *needs* the hassles
> these silly TOS terms cause... and the hassle is becoming high enough
> that they'll avoid having Net access altogether.

What gets me is them calling this stuff "agreements" when I never agreed to 
any such thing...

I've been known to go through a whole long involved process,  like the time "a 
free cell phone" turned into "we need a $500 deposit from you" and they'd 
gone and done all sorts of paperwork and I'd paid a $14.95 "shipping fee" (no 
doubt the actual cost to them of the phone at that time) and backed out of 
the whole deal.  The more time and effort and paperwork they have to waste on 
deals that don't go through,  the better the odds that sooner or later 
somebody might take some notice of this stuff,  and perhaps change it.

I hear comcast is supposed to be faster than DSL.  I looked into it and found 
that if you weren't a subscriber to their cables services already it would've 
cost me $54.95 a month vs. $14.95 a month for verizon's DSL (a bit higher 
now).  Why?  What kind of sense does this business model make?  So now 
they're pushing that other deal with cable/data/phone,  but does any of it 
work when you have no power like a regular land-line phone does?  And 
apparently verizon seems to feel compelled to respond with some sort of a 
similar deal,  only that involves a dish for the video part of it.  <shrug>

> People will avoid having Net access on certain carriers altogether
> rather than fight the TOS.  (e.g. Verizon Wireless' "new" policy that
> anything over 5 GB a month is "over-use" of their data plan, for
> example... okay fine, I'll buy from T-Mobile or Cingular... thanks.
> Good bye, Verizon!)

"These terms are simply NOT acceptible to me.  Sorry about that,  and too bad 
you had to go through all that paperwork and spend all that time on this.  
No,  I'm *NOT* going to be paying for something I don't plan to use..."

> I welcome heavy-handed TOS's and enforcement.  The more these idiots
> enforce, the more educated (the hard way) the end-customers become,
> and the more they pick clueful ISP's to deal with.

You think?  Too often people won't buck stuff like that,  figuring "that's the 
way it is..." is what's been my experience...

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