A friend is in the same boat. Power company severed his cable last week and says it will be next week before anyone will go out to fix it. He is in one of those weird pockets of Cupertino where that's his only internet choice.

AT&T owns DirecTV — not fast and weather affects the satellite but, for some residents here in the Silicon Valley, it's their only choice other than 720k dial-up. These folks live walking distance to HP in Santa Clara and the Apple HQ in Cupertino (just a few blocks away from each other). When I worked for them 22 years ago, they had to pay my Comcast bill because there was no DSL. I live two miles away—in the other direction, I'm a couple miles from Google, Microsoft and a whole gaggle of other tech firms.

Speaking of AT&T, they went into my backyard a couple months ago to run optical in my neighborhood—finally, then sent me a letter saying that DSL would be discontinued the end of the month and that I had to convert at no additional cost... So, last weekend, had it done and SpeedTest shows a 4x increase downloading and 20x increase in uploading for the same price. I can live with that.


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