So I'm not the only one to notice that Comcrap has a crappy network. I used to be with them & then I discovered that DSL would be cheaper. (I was low on money at the time.) After switching over I discovered that my Internet was faster with Qwest then it ever had been with Comcrap, even though Comcrap was supposed to give 3 mb/sec down stream & Qwest was only supposed to give 1.5 mb/sec my speeds are better with Qwest. After talking to my dad & brother who both work for Qwest they believe it is because Comcrap oversells their bandwidth.
If you haven't figured it out I do not spell Comcrap like the actual company name as I really hate them & their policies. The person that started the thread spelled Comcrap the way they want it spelled. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Midgley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hey > > Another throttling data point... through comcast I was getting > 40kbps trying to download a big disk image (3GB) from > msdn.microsoft.com. It would have taken days to transfer. It > finally just timed out. > > I sent an email to comcast and they told me I should reset my > modem. Funny thing, the download rate is now 1Mbps and I never did > reset my modem. I suspect most of their data users just give up > when a legit file won't download... then comcast has succeeded in > not delivering on their bandwidth promises. > > In the email I compared their download rate to my neighbor's "slow" > dsl. That slow dsl was ten times as fast as their service... > > Brad /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
