> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Guy Letourneau wrote: > > >What does the PLUG community feel about Comcast? > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 06:51:05AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Pros: > Cons:
Paul covered it pretty well, though my experience with Comcast was 1 to 3 hour outages about 4x per year. That was probably due to the high population of users in our neighborhood saturating and overheating the amplifiers on the line. After frequent occurences, I started calling them "Com-cant". You can indeed get Internet Only service from Comcast, though they will try to sell a bundle with TV and phone. Regards blocked addresses, I run an outbound VPN to an offsite virtual server, and all inbound traffic comes though that. I can even failover to a second IP address on the offsite, (ab)using port 443 (normally https) for the link. They would have a heck of a time blocking that ... I'm now using Verizon\\\\\\\Frontier FIOS, 15M/5M (their minimum offering), and it works great. I'm having trouble getting the service undergrounded, and their phone support is based on a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, but the bits are fine. And like Comcast, they try to upsell me to TV service, and don't believe me when I say I would rather put a two inch auger drill through my skull than watch broadcast TV (the drill is somewhat less damaging to my alleged intelligence). A minor issue is DNS - both Comcast and FIOS intercept DNS port 53, and send ads rather than standard "URL not found" messages. Pesky. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
