That is what we see too. Our connections are used 24/7 and we need lots of download speed so the price/performance is great. Except between 9pm and 1am when the links are saturated.
Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. 1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 ph. 612.573.2236 fax. 612.573.2250 [email protected] www.consultingradiologists.com -----Original Message----- From: David Hubbard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:10 PM To: North American Network Operators Group Subject: RE: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet With the way their peering is these days, that probably would result in a huge improvement; we have complaints all over the northeast from comcast users who are getting poor connectivity to websites we host as a result of the overloaded Comcast->Level3 links and nothing we can do about it even though we both share a non-Level3 provider since Comcast wants the traffic to head out the bad links. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:05 PM > To: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet > > My company has about 2 dozen Comcast business cable accounts > at satellite offices around the Midwest. We are looking at > adding an additional ISP to the mix and we are thinking of > purchasing an Ethernet circuit from Comcast in an attempt to > increase performance on those connections by keeping all the > traffic within Comcast's network. Comcast, of course, has > assured us this will result in "noticeable" speed increases > for those accounts. I am more weary. Does anyone have any > experience with Comcast's ethernet offerings? How reliable > are they? Do Comcast cable connections see a significant > performance improvement? > > Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer > Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. > 1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 > ph. 612.573.2236 fax. 612.573.2250 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > www.consultingradiologists.com<http://www.consultingradiologists.com> > > >
