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Cool :) You won't be far from us in Grafton.
Bristol is home to Ivy's Spice of Life (http://www.ivysspiceoflife.com/info/), Bill & Ivy's restaurant.
Mike Ruff also works at Mayhew (http://www.mayhew.org/) up there on the lake.
For cable, you're probably going to have to deal with Comcast, scumbags (http://forum.nhliberty.org/index.php?topic=595.msg3760#msg3760) who will never get a dime from me. I have DSL from a small local company called MV Communications (http://www.mv.com/), who might be available up there. (If you do go with MV, use me as a referral—username jraxis—and I get $20, which I'll donate to a N.H. liberty organization of your choice, e.g. the FSP, NHLA, FTL, or similar.)
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Quote from: Kristie on June 08, 2009, 10:39 PM NHFT
Ugh. I have heard nothing but horrible things about Comcast. I am really hoping its not them.
I need a fairly fast internet connection for my work...I'll have my husband/tech geek check into that company you named. Thank you for the information!
Yeah, Comcast are sleazebags. What I linked to was only the
local example I know of demonstrating their sleazebaggery. They filter incoming ports unless you opt to pay exorbitantly more for a "business" account—the only meaningful difference being they disable the crippling they do to the residential accounts. They filter outgoing connections on ports like SMTP—again, to lock people into their service, but using the excuse that it's for their own customers' protection against spambots. They're the company surreptitiously throttling people's connection and injecting fake RSET packets into torrent downloads, without users' knowledge or consent—giving the Fedgov an excuse to start regulating "network neutrality." They're also one of the ISPs who are the most strongly supportive of the copyright cartels
vs. their own paying customers. And all this is protected by the government monopoly given to them for being the local cable company.
As for MV, I was able to get 3.0Mb in Manchester. It's plenty fast enough for what I do online, including things like SSH connections, lots of downloading, &c..
Kristie, I like your avatar. It reminds me of of my old animated "Spaz or die". ;D
Which I still don't get!
comcast throttling for old guys
The police chief in Bristol was a dick to me today and insulted me greatly when I was up helping Bill today.
From what I've heard from Bill & Ivy, Bristol has far more police than they need (but then again, what place doesn't?). So all they do is drive around the town center looking for people to pull over, set up speed traps, &c.. While at the restaurant, I've counted five or six driving by outside within the span of an hour.
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Quote from: J'raxis 270145 on June 09, 2009, 11:32 PM NHFT
From what I've heard from Bill & Ivy, Bristol has far more police than they need (but then again, what place doesn't?). So all they do is drive around the town center looking for people to pull over, set up speed traps, &c.. While at the restaurant, I've counted five or six driving by outside within the span of an hour.
In a situation both hilarious and sinister, while waving signs to generate business for Ivy's SoL, the local cop parked his car across the way from us and just sat there watching. Sort of Barney Fife does Big Brother . . .
Aaand today's just-announced bit of Comcast sleazebaggery: Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/1731238/Comcast-Intercepts-and-Redirects-Port-53-Traffic?art_pos=20).
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I am so spoiled by Comcast's speeds. I live in WV, where telco monopoly protection is so strong most major cell provider coverage literally drops right at the border of the state. My options are 5GB capped DSL through Frontier at $60 a month for 3 Mb or $20 a month for 20Mb with Comcast.
Metrocast offers 7 Mb, I think I could handle that, but I don't think I could ever go back to 3Mb DSL. :S
Quote from: Kristie on June 10, 2009, 11:28 AM NHFT
I found out there is a local provider called MetroCast.
I am absolutely appalled reading those posts about Comcast. I will never give them 1 penny.
MetroCast... don't know anything good or bad about them. Ron Helwig (http://ronhelwig.com/) uses them out in Deerfield; he might be able to tell you how good or bad they've been.
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While I have not been ticketed in Bristol -and I "appreciate" that- (one headlight out one time and, turning my highbeems down too slowly the next) the Bristol police seem to be --- always --- hanging around on a fishing expedition.
The Bristol police seem to love the "99 question (blue light gang) routine."I have found the police in Bristol to be so disturbing that I no longer go threw "their" town.
I've even thought about letting the Bristol Commerce Commition know that I don't do business in "their" town (and that I might encourage others to NEVER stop there) because their police are so weird.
I used to stop (in Bristol - and surrounding towns) for food, gas, etc.
I miss the friendly Bristol.
The Bristol Police State is also hurting businesses in neighboring towns by causing people to avoid traveling along 104 and the general area.
Speaking of Bristol, tonight (Friday 2009.09.11) my music partner Wayne and I, collectively known as the Graftonites, will be performing at the open mic at The Mill, 2 Central Street, sometime after 19:00. See you there?
Quote from: John on June 10, 2009, 11:14 PM NHFT
While I have not been ticketed in Bristol -and I "appreciate" that- (one headlight out one time and, turning my highbeems down too slowly the next) the Bristol police seem to be --- always --- hanging around on a fishing expedition.
The Bristol police seem to love the "99 question (blue light gang) routine."I have found the police in Bristol to be so disturbing that I no longer go threw "their" town.
I've even thought about letting the Bristol Commerce Commition know that I don't do business in "their" town (and that I might encourage others to NEVER stop there) because their police are so weird.
I used to stop (in Bristol - and surrounding towns) for food, gas, etc.
I miss the friendly Bristol.
The Bristol Police State is also hurting businesses in neighboring towns by causing people to avoid traveling along 104 and the general area.
This was also Bill & Ivy's experience in running a restaurant in the city. :(
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What happened to Kristie?
Erased herself, I guess.