Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
Not that I am a real fan of comcast, but I've had cable modem for over 12 years. Since Comcast took over ATTBI, the speed had been upgraded to 6Mbps, and the cable connection is rock solid. With ATT, we had a couple of outages a year. Same with Mediaone and its predecessor, Highway1. -- Jerry Fel

Re: Fios. Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/15/06, Andrew W. Gaunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing I noticed about the action tech is a configuration screen forDynamic DNS updates.This is something I'd  been meaniung to do for some time so I created anaccount with DynDNS andthe action tech router sent an update after entered the i

Re: Fios. Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I just recently switched from Adelphia "Power Link" (now Comcast) to FIOS and in short, I like it. I haven't had it long enough to know how reliable it is, but, the IP has changed once in the less that 1/2 month it's been installed. The router Verizon supplies is made by "Action Tech" which se

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The best results I've gotten, looking at the whole picture (price, performance, reliability, customer service, etc.) are with local ISPs doing fixed wireless. The major advantage is that by eliminating a Really?! I don't know this to

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread aluminumsulfate
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:26:32 -0500 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The best results I've gotten, looking at the whole picture (price, > performance, reliability, customer service, etc.) are with local ISPs > doing fixed wireless. The major advantage is that by eliminating a Real

Fios. Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Fred
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:25, kenta uttered thusly: > I'd love to try Verzion's FiOS but they're not offering it in my part of > Nashua. :( If anyone here has it, how is it? I'm also not sure how any > local DSL providers are stacking up these days. Feedback is appreciated. > > -Kenta > ___

Re: Earthlink DNS (Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?)

2006-11-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/14/06, Mark Polhamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/09/more_info_on_dead_domain_handl.php Earthlink says: "...this isn't something that you'll be able to get customer support help with..." My response would then be: This isn't something you'll get my subscrib

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread kenta
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Travis Roy wrote: When I worked at the MediaOne NOC (under my horrible manager there) some guy called saying he was going to kill and/or beat one of the callcenter people (they worked upstairs). Now I remember why I paid you less than everyone else. GOOD TIMES. (-1 poin

Earthlink DNS (Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?)

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Polhamus
Travis Roy wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote: >>> I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday >>> if I had any better (or even comparable) choices - > > I use Earthlink for my cable service... > > It's from Comcast, and my bill actually comes from Comcast, but I g

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Travis Roy
If I have a serious problem with the wireless feed at work, I can drive to the ISP's office in the next town, and beat the owner over the head with his radio. Just don't call first.. When I worked at the MediaOne NOC (under my horrible manager there) some guy called saying he was going to k

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/14/06, kenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast? At that price range, your options are always going to be fairly limited. The best results I've gotten, looking

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:25 -0500, kenta wrote: > That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high > speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast? I've used Worldpath (http://www.worldpath.com) for home DSL for several years now and couldn't be happier. Th

Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Travis Roy
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote: I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday if I had any better (or even comparable) choices - I use Earthlink for my cable service... It's from Comcast, and my bill actually comes from Comcast, but I get an Earthlink IP, Earthlink DNS

Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread kenta
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote: I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday if I had any better (or even comparable) choices - That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast? Comcast