[Cialug] OT: Qwest and Mediacom Internet Service Advice

[joshstrobl at hush.ai]

I also have noticed my speed drop considerably when others are 
using it. Do you recommend switch to Qwest? My grandfather has 
Qwest and its the fastest internet (besides T1) that I have ever 
used on a computer...or so it seemed.

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:49:09 -0600 Aaron Korver 
<aaron.korver at gmail.com> wrote:
>Okay, I'll throw my two bits into this discussion.  I had Mediacom 
>for about
>4 years at my current location (Polk City).  I would have multiple 
>outages,
>and the speed was terrible from about 3:30 (when kids got home 
>from school)
>until about 9:00 (kids going to bed?).  After a two day long 
>outage, I got
>tired of it and switched to Qwest, and the MSN ISP.  I've been 
>with them for
>1.5 years now, and I've had one outage during that time.  The only 
>"bad"
>thing was trying to set my modem to bridge mode.  That was a pain, 
>but once
>I figured that out, I have zero complaints about Qwest's service.  
>I was
>able to lock in the price at $19.99 a month for as long as I'm a 
>customer.
>Count me a happy Qwest customer.
>
>Aaron Korver
>
>On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Matthew Nuzum 
><newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-
>home.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I've had DSL service for several years, and I am quite happy 
>with it.  The
>>> only complaint that I have is my modem seems to be having 
>issues.  I have to
>>> reset it every couple of weeks because we experience slowness 
>of loading of
>>> pages.
>>>
>>>
>> This is exactly the same problem that I mentioned to in my other 
>email
>> where I needed to replace my modem. It got worse and worse until 
>finally one
>> day it died completely. The kid at qwest said that they think 
>the Motorolla
>> modems are the best but locally I could only find the Actiontec. 
>Still,
>> after replacing the modem the internet has been perfect.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Nuzum
>> newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Cialug mailing list
>> Cialug at cialug.org
>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>>
>>