[lug] ISP advice

[Stephen Kraus]

I pay 90 a month for 40MB / 20MB uplink through quest. Its good, all i can
say about that
On Oct 4, 2011 10:31 AM, "F.L. Whiteley" <techzone at greeleynet.com> wrote:
> cheap, fast, and reliable
>
> pick any two
>
> true in 1995, true today
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
> On Behalf Of Steven A Hart
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 16:41
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] ISP advice
>
>
> Just an update on this. After I bought my home, I was contacted by a
> company called "All Connect". They offered a special deal for Comcast
which
> I accepted.
>
> The deal was: Comcast triple play + 20mbps internet with Blast internet
> (boosting to 25mbps) all for 99$ a month.
>
> What a crock of S$%T that turned out to be. Got my first bill from comcast
> and it's really,
>
> - $99 per month
> - plus $10 a month for the blast
> - plus $7 a month for a modem that is only handling the phone line (I have
> my own cable modem)
> The Comcast tech said it would only be $3 a month since the modem was only
> handling the phone.
> The Comcast tech lied flat out.
>
> I called All Connect and they suddenly are describing the deal differently
> saying the blast was a upgrade. WTF???
>
> I know it does not seem like alot of extra money but it's BS like this
that
> makes me want to cancel the whole entire thing. Do yourselves a favor,
when
> you buy a new house and people call you out of the blue offering deals
like
> this. Tell them to F$%k off and save yourself alot of hassle.
>
> All I really want is fast internet (on the order of 20mbps download) Why
> is it so hard to find that here?
>
> Can anyone make a suggestion for a reliable service that offers this at a
> reasonable price?
>
> Thanks for letting me vent.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 09/05/2011 07:42 AM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:crichey at gmail.com>
> <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:00 PM, George Sexton
> <mailto:georges at mhsoftware.com> <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.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Web Page: http://lug.boulder.co.us
>
> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug
>
> Join us on IRC: irc.hackingsociety.org port=6667 channel=#hackingsociety
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Web Page: http://lug.boulder.co.us
>
> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug
>
> Join us on IRC: irc.hackingsociety.org port=6667 channel=#hackingsociety
>
>
> --
> Steve Hart
> Systems Administrator
> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado Boulder
> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
> (303)492-8109
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/pipermail/lug/attachments/20111004/a4cb4350/attachment.html>