[lug] ISP advice

[Davide Del Vento]

Another thing I forgot to mention. Comcast is no-contract
month-to-month subscriptions. The others (last time I checked, which
is 2 years ago) were lock-in for 2-years.
Let us know what you'll decide to do and whether or not you'll be happy.
Best,
Davide

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 17:39, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:00 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com> wrote:
>> I’ve got Comcast and I have to say their service isn’t markedly worse than
>> anyone else’s. It’s pretty fast.
>>
>
> I've had the equivalent Comcast service since the ATT @HOME days, and
> the results have always been very good. There were times a few years
> ago when their DNS servers were not reliable, but I haven't noticed
> that in the past couple of years.
>
> The one caveat with Comcast is this: which local area? I'm on the
> original well-built ATT portion of the network (SE Aurora). Comcast
> underbuilt and oversubscribed some of the newer areas resulting in
> poor performance when every connection was active. The only direct
> reports I had of this behavior were from the area around the
> University Blvd / Lincoln area (far south Metro).
>
> Another point. I haven't used most of the ISP services for the past 8
> years. All of my email (including my wife's) is forwarded to gmail,
> and thus I can't comment much about their current email services. It
> has improved recently, but the lag in sending an email at one point
> was up to 10 minutes before it appeared at the sender (both ends on
> Comcast and gmail).
>
> I've never measured the speeds. Comcast upgraded my service a year or
> so ago. It's always darn fast for downloads. In all the years I've
> only experienced about 3 outages, relatively brief in duration, except
> when @HOME bailed out as the ATT ISP without warning. (That has
> nothing to do with Comcast).
>
> Another thought. Quest/Whatever-they-are-now have been building out a
> fiber network for the past few years. If you are in one of those
> areas, you would certainly get excellent reults.
>
> We also have Comcast as the land-line provider, and that service is excellent.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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