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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 31-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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BendBroadband Cap Protest Planned(If you have no idea what folks would be protesting, read up here) The folks at FixBBB are planning to protest the BendBroadband bandwidth caps this weekend. Right now, I'm in the boat where while I don't like the caps (which have been raised) I'm below the 100GB limit and it'd be a hassle to move everything to a new ISP right now. I'm also far enough away from the Qwest downtown office where the speeds would be quite a bit slower than what I have now if I were to move to DSL. I won't be able to attend (nor was I really planning to, as I'm not one for protesting publicly -- I protest with my wallet, personally), nor do I personally expect it to do a whole lot of good. Not only is the foot traffic in and out of the BendBroadband office probably really low (especially on a Saturday) but drive-by traffic is pretty minimal by their front door (if the protest is behind their offices, facing Empire, that might be more effective). Speaking of boats (I was -- lookup a few lines) it's free fishing weekend, so that will undoubtedly take some traffic away. Or not. I have no idea, I just wanted to throw a stupid joke in there. Posted by Jake on 06/03/08 @ 03:44 PM
Posted in Local | 2 Comments | Permalink Send to digg, facebook, twitter or reddit 2 CommentsRobin W. said on 06/07/08 @ 03:37 PM:Unfortunately, the protest was canceled due to lack of support after the 100GB cap increase. I agree with Jake that people should definitely protest with their wallets. I had DSL installed this week, 5Mb down/.9Mb up, and will be canceling my BBB service when my Xbox 360 wireless adapter arrives from Amazon. I strongly suggest, even if you might not go over 100GB, and as long as you can receive reasonable service from Qwest, BendTel, Yellowknife or any other alternative, that you cancel any BendBroadband services and show them that capping usage is simply not the way to go. still waiting for my bbb connection said on 06/10/08 @ 09:55 AM: Anyone consider or talk about the impact of these caps on local businesses that provide free wifi services? (Im looking for info) That would suck if the coffee shops couldn't offer that free service because of excessive downloads of music files. Their business installs are 3 / 4 weeks out, and I have to use these wifi spots to work for now. Post a comment |
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