Broadband in Scottsdale?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:15, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all, I'm moving to the Scottsdale area (from California) in the next
> couple weeks.  I'm wondering what all of you recommend as far as broadband
> access goes.  I have a couple Linux/BSD boxes so I'm hoping to have a
> geek-friendly ISP that doesn't block any ports (I hear Cox does).  I'm
> looking at the Sonoran Vista apartments on East Redfield Road.
> SpeakEasy's (DSL) webpage tells me they're about 20k from the CO which
> isn't too good :)
> 
> Anyways, just wanted to see if someone could give me a little feedback on
> either ISP's or decent apartment complexes within SpeakEasy (or comperable
> ISP)'s range.
> 
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I think that you are meat!

North Scottsdale is dismal for DSL coverage and Cox blocks ports 25 & 80

RNI has a tower near runway at Airpark for RF DSL but the effective
radius isn't much more than 2 or 3 miles. You might want to try
sattelite co's.

Craig