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Re: [PLUG] Comcast is Messing with My DNS
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> 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
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