You should be able to get Comcast Business in any part of town where Comcast is. They are a completely different operation from Comcast Residential and I have been happy with them for the past couple of years. Not cheap, but deliver advertised bandwidth and have good customer service.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Peter Torelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I have Century Link and my bandwidth is definitely time-dependent. I cronned > this guy's script (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) on my local > machine and the data shows it rolling off daily at a peak rate of 1.5MBs to > 300-600kB/s between 8 and 11pm. I'm really far from downtown and I pay > $45/mo for 1.5MB/s down, but it pisses me off to no end that my internet > performance has been getting worse over the years due to their throttling. I > have no other choice, HughesNet is a joke (tried it for a few months years > ago), so I'm stuck with CenturyLink b/c of where I live. > > They totally got me by the shorthairs. > > Is there anything I've overlooked besides HughesNet satellite and the one > DSL provider that offers service?? (I've checked with the other big ones > that show up on google search). > > P > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bummer! >> >> Just tested mine (Milwaukie area) and it's with 5% of advertised. >> >> Let us know what ya find! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Brandon Mathis >> KD7INF >> [email protected] >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Sova <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The line from the street comes directly into the house via a single pair >>> of CAT5 terminated with a RJ-11 jack. There is not extra wiring. DSL >>> circuit is not experiencing any dropped packets or signal issues. The issue >>> is speed which is inconsistent but never reaches 20/5 service. The best I >>> have received is 18.1Mbits down which, with overhead, is pretty close. My >>> upload speed is clearly capped at 800kbps as that is consistently the >>> maximum speed up. Today on the phone they said that is the speed promised. >>> I can’t find any upload speed in anything that I signed or on any of the >>> advertising. 800kbps is really slow, and not really acceptable. >>> >>> >>> >>> But the biggest evidence is that the speed I get is completely time >>> dependent. If I run tests after 6pm until 11pm the speed is around 2 – 4 >>> mbps! If I run it around 4am then I get around 16mbps. So my belief is >>> that they have oversold my local DSLAM and that there is not enough capacity >>> from the DSLAM to the Internet. >>> >>> >>> >>> They are sending me a new “modem” to see if that fixes the issue despite >>> my explaining that the problem is not my connection to the local DSLAM but >>> the speed from there out to the net. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sova >>> >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandon >>> Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 10:50 PM >>> To: A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland, or) >>> Subject: Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] CenturyLink "Fiber in your >>> neighborhood" Experience >>> >>> >>> >>> If you're not hitting your advertised speeds I recommend doing an audit >>> of your home telephone wiring. I went to my block and removed every wire >>> except for the one that lead to the single jack feeding the modem (about >>> 15ft away) and haven't had a lapse in speed since the day it was installed >>> (with sporadic checking). >>> >>> We're in Milwaukie, so a bit further south. Pretty happy with the service >>> and especially the price. We had the 20/5 service but when we called to get >>> the annual 'deal' again they offered 40/5 for less than we were paying for >>> the 20/5 before. Sprung for that, come within 5% of the advertised speed. >>> >>> I'm sure your mileage may vary, but I'm a pretty satisfied customer. >>> >>> >>> >>> I did note that their equipment (pole or ground mounted) is not UPS >>> backed (they don't offer VOIP phone service in our area) so when the >>> neighborhood power goes out, the internet drops too (even with my UPS backed >>> equipment). >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>> Brandon Mathis >>> KD7INF >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Sova <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thought I would just let everyone know that (as expected), CenturyLink's >>> advertising of "Fiber in your neighborhood" appears to be nothing but >>> marketing lies. The first lie was that it wasn't fiber to the door >>> actually >>> fiber to the node VDSL service. They then told me I could order 40mbps >>> DSL, >>> which I did, but then later my order was changed to 20mbps because they >>> said >>> higher speeds were not available in my area. >>> >>> They do actually have some fiber to the house installs happening in >>> Portland >>> now. They just aren't in the areas that the people knocking on doors are >>> canvasing. My guess is they are trying to figure out how much interest >>> there is in a neighborhood and if they should extend the fiber service >>> further into the area. Anyway, the only areas I know are actually being >>> installed with fiber to the door is along SE 26th Ave from Belmont to >>> Powell, and between SE Belmont and SE Hawthorne from SE26th up to SE33rd >>> (approx.). >>> >>> Today during the install I was told I was too far from the node and could >>> only get 20mbps (which they had already told me, but apparently not the >>> technician). Then the second issue was that the modem they provided me >>> wasn't able to do a transparent bridged connection. Luckily Tech had a >>> different one on the truck. He gave it to me and then took off. I >>> switched >>> it over to bridge but then nothing worked. Figured out that you have to >>> have authenticated PPPoE for DHCP and then spent a few hours on the phone >>> trying to get my authentication credentials, which were never provided to >>> me. >>> >>> Anyway, it is all installed but I have yet to see anything close to the >>> speed promised. Best I have gotten is 10mbps down, 0.8mpbs up. This >>> evening I have been having about 2.0mpbs down and 0.5mbps up. Their >>> provided DNS servers are incredibly slow, but switching to my own >>> recursive >>> DNS server didn't help much. Tried forever to find the promised upload >>> speed and can't find it listed anywhere not even in the very hard to find >>> legal print. A good thing to note is that in the legal print the speeds >>> promised are stated as "between your home and our offices" so you aren't >>> even getting promised Internet speeds. Maybe you won't care that you >>> have >>> 40mbps to their offices and then you have 2.0mbps out to the Internet, >>> but >>> I'm not very happy with that deal. >>> >>> So... Comcast still remains the only real high-speed option in SE >>> Portland >>> (all of Portland proper?) and I don't recommend wasting your time with >>> CenturyLink. >>> >>> If anyone has a recommendation for a fixed wireless service with decent >>> speeds, please let me know. I'm tired of giving money to Comcast or >>> CenturyLink for their horrible monopoly Internet options. >>> >>> Sova >>> >>> PS - When I was in the Netherlands I had three ISPs to pick from that all >>> provided service via DOCSIS cable service. I paid 40 EUR a month for >>> 30mbps >>> which was plenty fast, always working, and didn't block, redirect, >>> filter, >>> of otherwise molest my traffic. I did have to VPN back to the US for >>> Netflix and Pandora which was annoying, however. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber > > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
