[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Tim Wilson]

My internet service was out *again* today.  This time, for 4 hours
straight.  Then it was intermittent for a while, now it seems to be s-l-o-w.
Yippeee.

On 4/13/06, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> 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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