JP Vossen on 9 Apr 2008 11:31:37 -0700 |
> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:02 -0400 > From: "Brian Vagnoni" <bvagnoni@v-system.net> [...] > Comcast doesn't always do what's printed on their web page. [...] Indeed. I had heard that if you called and complained they would do something. But like you, I never found the energy to bother. [...] > In Philly I hate the copper, it's horrible; [...] Yup, that sure makes a difference. I'm 19,000 wire-feet from my CO, which is actually farther than driving, because the line runs from my house away from the CO to a junction box. It also has some fiber in it, so the *only* copper DSL I can get is iDSL from Covad/Speakeasy. That's basically a bonded ISDN circuit, for a whopping 0144/0144 connection! :-) However, I can get FiOS, which I also have at 15/2 (yeah, I'm triple homed, scary). I dislike both Comcast and Verizon, and honestly have had few problems with either. But the FiOS is a bit more stable, and in theory faster. I attribute at least some of my lack of problems with Comcast to the fact that I never used their DNS and that I don't use it for much of anything now, and I don't run any servers, or any P2P services on it. When it was my main connection, I did have incoming SSH, but on a high, non-standard port to alleviate kiddie door-knob twisting. My $0.02, JP ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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