bad news for cable modems in Lansing

[Sean]

This always makes me wonder how hard it would actually be to do. 
I mean what would happen, if some organization started a small
internet cooperative kind of like the old freenet but for high speed
access. 

I wonder if you could get a grant to do this.







On Mon, 1 May 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:

> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> 05/01/00 11:59AM:
> 
> > This is from the general Mananger of ATT cable Lansing:
> 
> >>Mark,
> >>
> >>[snip]  We are tentatively shooting
> >>to get started by year end, 
> 
> This is what they (then MediaOne) told me in 1997.  And 1998.
> My apartment at home is (supposedly) wired for "Broadband" 
> (they came and re-wired the place in 1997), but beyond that 
> nothing has happened in my area (west side).  Perhaps it should
> be called "Vaporband"... :(   "Broadvapor"?  "AT&Vapor"?
> 
> >>Regards,
> >>John Rawcliffe
> 
> > With fuzzy talk like that, I figure it will never arrive.
> 
> I'm not holding my breath.
> 
> I heard a radio add last week for a DSL company, www.rhythm.com 
> (or www.rhythms.com, one of the two).  They aren't in Lansing, 
> but they do aparently serve people in Detroit.  Perhaps we can 
> get multiple DSL companies in the area.
> 
> I am so sick of 56K dialup I could just scream.  Many of the 
> surrounding cities have it, yet I can't get anything above 4.6K/s.
> 
> > Anybody else want to work with me on the letter?
> 
> Sure, if I can get the time.
> 
> 
> 
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