[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dan Hockey]

The problem I've have noticed with Mediacom is volume of pings I get, 
which sometimes locks up my router.
-dh

Tim Wilson wrote:

> I had to unplug and plugin my cable modem again last night.  I've had 
> lots of little outages with Mediacom.  Frankly, the little outages are 
> worse than a major one.  It gets frustrating to go to a page and it 
> loads fine, only to click a link on the page and you get a timeout 
> error.  Last night, GMail actually reported a corrupt page to me.  I'm 
> guessing during the transfer, the javascript client didn't get 
> everything it was expecting so it reported corruption, and I couldn't 
> do anything until I did a reload of the page.  I can't trust Mediacom 
> with my internet service, and they want me to trust them with my phone 
> service?  Seriously?  And now they're rolling out 10Mb service?  
> C'mon, shouldn't you have rock-solid service before adding new services?
>
> On 4/13/06, *Carl Olsen* <carl-olsen at mchsi.com 
> <mailto:carl-olsen at mchsi.com>> wrote:
>
>     Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for
>     home use.
>     They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from
>     Mediacom.  All
>     I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in
>     service.  It's
>     been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and
>     that was
>     only for a couple of hours.
>
>     Carl
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org>
>     [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>     <mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org>] On Behalf
>     Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
>     Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM
>     To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>     Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
>
>     I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and
>     I've
>     had DSL service for several years now.  The only downside to DSL in
>     Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines
>     are too
>     old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them.  The majority of the
>     problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor
>     quality DSL modem.  The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may not
>     be of better quality than the one I received.
>
>     Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called
>     them
>     (the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem).  The
>     woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't
>     really
>     know what she was talking about.
>
>     I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest.  Best Buy has a
>     couple of models for a reasonable price.  In fact they are the same
>     modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.
>
>     Jeff
>
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> -- 
> Tim
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