[Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

[Alan]

Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> Where do you live?  There are also antennas on Blanton Heights (due
> south of downtown) and Murray Hill (south of Beltline/W. 11th).  The
> Coburg hills are north of Gateway.  All three sites are pretty easy to
> see at night because of the blinking red lights.
I'm tucked into the hill off of Warren. The Hawkins Hill Reservoir 
blocks my view of the Northwest(including downtown and the hills).
I'll check again tonight for blinking lights, but I don't recall seeing 
any from the porch.
> 
> Also consider whether a rooftop antenna would help.  The cost is
> small potatoes compared to several years of access fees.
It'd have to be a pretty tall one. heh.

Any idea what they are charging these days?

> 
> Next time I move, I'm definitely working out the internet angle before
> I close on the house. (-:
> 

Yeah, we are house shopping right now, and that's one of the make or 
break factors.
-ajb