Why does Verizon have to force high speed adverts down our throats

Every time I connect to internet I get the pop up, channel 500 is on permamenet upgrade mode, and just like everybody else who had 35 service I WAS FORCED TO UPGRADE. Enough already!

cmoore wrote:
Every time I connect to internet I get the pop up, channel 500 is on permamenet upgrade mode, and just like everybody else who had 35 service I WAS FORCED TO UPGRADE. Enough already!
Do you have the Verizon Toolbar installed in your browser? If so, that is probably the reason you see that, disable the toolbar and see if that doesn't fix the problem.
FWIW, I never, ever see what you are describing.
Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.4
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

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It's possible that you are coming out of a remote terminal or remote DSLAM, rather than a full blown central office. Verizon seems to have an unspoken rule or habit of only provisioning 3Mbps and below to customers on the remotes. To augment that, it's been seen in some cases that they are running Fiber to the remotes, but only supply the equivalent of several T1 circuits rather than OC-3 Fiber or better.
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Why does output have type force conversion?

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Normally, type force conversion is in the input port, but in my vi, it is in the out put vi.
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The 1st item and 2nd item are the same, but one is have force type convert and the other is not
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