At least where I live DSL is crap. It's slow, and expensive. Now FIOS is awesome, Verizon's fiber optic packages. Cheap and fast. Just google Verizon's site for it. -Russ
-----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Sweeting Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Comcast If DSL is an option for you, try replacing your buggy comcast ISP with a much more fault tolerant and robust Speakeasy ISP. http://www.speakeasy.net/ With DSL you will find your internet experience is whiter, brighter and has flavor crystals. Someone may have once told me that cable modems cause cancer in laboratory rats. Or maybe they are built by laboratory rats, or something. At 02:23 PM 7/1/2005, you wrote: >I didn't tell them that I was running Linux, personally, that was my >roommate.. But we have discovered what the issue really is. >Apparently it violates the ToS to run a web server (which I didn't >know when we signed up for it), so that was the problem. Of course >this has nothing to do with Linux, except that now I have this >excellent photo gallery that I made that I can't even reasonably use >because 1) I practically need root access to install it anywhere, and >2) I have about 2.5 GB of pictures, which doesn't even include the >thumbnails. > >GRRR. GRRR GRRR GRRR. >:/ > >Oh well, on the bright side at least I can view it on my own machine... > >On 7/1/05, Gary Ayvazov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the key is to never ever tell comcast (or any other ISP, really) that > > you're running linux. they want to find any reason to blame the crappy > > service on you. i cant count how many times my conversation with the > > comcast guys went something like this: > > > > me: my service is down. > > him: clear your cookies, and then reboot your computer > > me: *does absolutely nothing* alright, its rebooting. *service magically > > restored* > > > > they dont really like to admit how often it goes down. > > > > -gary > > > > Randolph Baden wrote: > > > > >I figure some people on here must have used Comcast at some point, so > > >I figure I should ask you all for confirmation about what those jerks > > >tried to tell me today. > > > > > >We finally had our service working after about a week of down time, > > >but it recently cut out, and Comcast is claiming that it's because > > >they don't support Linux. If you ask me this sounds like complete BS. > > > They said that some of our packets were considered invalid or > > >something so we were "wallblocked" or something similarly nonsensical. > > > > > >Since there's no reason that a packet coming from a Linux machine > > >(especially after going through the router) should be any different > > >than a packet coming from any other machine, I wanted to know if > > >anyone else has ever had this problem with Comcast, or else, if some > > >people have explicitly not had this problem with Comcast and instead > > >we found yet another incompetent Customer Service rep. > > > > > > > > >GRRR! And thanks. :/ > > > > > > > > >-- > > >-Randy Baden > > >AIM: Randofu > > >Cell: 301-751-5114 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- >-Randy Baden >AIM: Randofu >Cell: 301-751-5114
