Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 2015-07-17 15:53, Matt Minuti wrote: If only someone offered such nice service in auburn... I'm still on 6/1 for $60... At least you can blame your placement out in the boonies. I'm stuck trying to do DSL over 90-year-old copper+paper+lead telephone-lines that semiregularly require a

erratic fairpoint dsl? [was Re: FYI: Comcast...]

2015-07-17 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: Last month my Fairpoint DSL service became horribly erratic. The modem reported good DSL connections, but PPPoE just would not stay up. Outages sometimes persisted for days. After three weeks of grief and many calls to tech

Re: erratic fairpoint dsl? [was Re: FYI: Comcast...]

2015-07-17 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 21:59 -0400, Brian St. Pierre wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: Last month my Fairpoint DSL service became horribly erratic. The modem reported good DSL connections, but PPPoE just would not stay up. Outages sometimes

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Steven C. Peterson
Auburn is a Comcast territory and is available if you ask, this is not a publicly advertised service You need to be within 3/4 a mile of a node or splice box if above ground or 1/4 of a mile underground. Quick note on the two options ( I did not know any one other then fairpoint and comcast

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 17:53 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: my only other options are Comcast cable (and I'd prefer not to do business with Comcast) I have similar feelings about Comcast. Last month my Fairpoint DSL service became horribly erratic. The modem reported good DSL connections,

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Matt Minuti
If only someone offered such nice service in auburn... I'm still on 6/1 for $60... On Jul 16, 2015 7:07 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure where your local area is, but many towns served by the telecom TDS have, or will soon have, TDSFiber available. For plain old residential

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Bruce Labitt
I'm in Nashua (north end) and have fiber. However, this fiber was installed when Verizon owned the landlines. But Fairpoint did the pole to house drop. You sure there is no fiber downtown? Best regards, Bruce Please excuse any typos, sent by my iPhone. On Jul 17, 2015, at 17:53, Joshua