[lug] Re: comcast and multiple IPs

[Jeff Patterson]

Comcast might be slightly more expensive, but I like it.  I've lived in my 
house for almost 3 years and had my internet shut down 2 times.  ONce was 
during the @home fiasco and the other time it was a billing dispute, which I 
won.  I use a linux server for multiple items, including a DHCP server; it's 
been running for almost a solid year now.  It would've been running longer, 
but I had a power failure last summer which caused it to shut down.  
Overall, I'm very happy with comcast even though it is a bit pricey. 

My wife uses the web almost daily for research (she's a Ph.D. student @ CU 
Boulder) and I use it often to VPN into work.  I have great bandwidth at 
home, ~1-2MB DL; my biggest complaint is the UL bandwidth which is only 128 
kb.  If they would offer something greator, I would very seriously consider 
paying the premium.  Unfortunately, the last time I looked they didn't. 

Jeff 

D. Stimits writes: 

> ...
>> And, I'll say it again, I'm glad it was Qwest to my front door before 
>> Comcast, considering all the things I'm reading about them!
> 
> Cable itself is wonderful, when it works. Low latency and high bandwidth, 
> it is cheaper (used to be) than an extra phone line. At my location the 
> only other choice is 56k on phone lines that only support 14k to 26k (poor 
> quality plus filters in an area without the infrastructure to get 2 lines 
> at times), and even some of the wireless versions can't reach this part of 
> town. My disagreement is with Comcast's business practices...they 
> constantly take deals they make and decide to supply less for the agreed 
> upon deal an charge for the rest as extras...they've done that 4 times in 
> the last year as a result of dialing their tech support for problems NOT 
> in this house. The tech in charge of this area is the only guy that has 
> the slightest clue about actually fixing problems, without that we'd also 
> be out of cable. 
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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