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PBJunkster
Crazy Talk

join:2001-10-02
Sahuarita, AZ

Why pay?

Why not just buy a router and save yourself the money to buy the addt. IP? Then you can add more computers too if you want. Just a suggestion.
permalink · 2002-01-06 03:28:31 · Reply to this
Sludgehead

join:2001-03-09
Albuquerque, NM

Good luck with Qwest...

I had DSL through Qwest for 15 months. The connection was good but they really reamed me for being an early adopter and their customer service sucks. After waiting 2+ years for their service (ANY broadband actually) to be made available in my area (and knowing for at least a year in advance that the system was technically ready to go, just corporate bulls**t keeping us from being hooked up) I grabbed a Qwest line ASAP. According to the website prequal I was only given an option of 256k. Upon ordering I inquired and was told the only way to get anything faster was to upgrade to a "Business Select" line (512/512) at a cost of around $100/month with a contract. I foolishly agreed.

Two months after I signed up they changed their entire scheme and now suddenly my neighbor is getting a 640/256 line for $39.95. Suffice to say I felt a wee bit screwed paying over twice as much for less bandwidth. Not to mention how having a voice line is mandatory in order to get DSL, yet after my contract was up and I told them to stick it my DSL line worked flawlessly for over six weeks AFTER they disconnected my voice line. (I told them to disconnect everything....it's cable and cellular from here on out)

As far as Comcast goes I signed up in March. It works fine most of the time but definitely seems flakier than my DSL. It's much faster and my ping times have been cut in half which suits me just fine. The upload cap kind of blows and it sometimes irritates me watching my firewall log fill up with port scans from Comcast, but it only costs half as much as my DSL line did and is three times as fast. Considering it costs at least $30 a month just to subject yourself to the torture of a dialup account I can hardly complain. In fact I have a hard time understanding anyone moan about cable considering how fast it is and how much a T1 connection costs. I understand as the system catches on and more users subscribe my connection may very well start to deteriorate, but it's hard to imagine it being worse than dialup.

VIVA LA COMCAST!
permalink · 2002-04-15 11:24:45 · Print · Reply to this

Civil Libitarian

@zianet.com

Avoid Comcast!

I do not recommend Comcast!

Comcast spam-blocks non-spam email. You cannot trust their email servers, because they use the MAPS list. In english, they are using a blacklist that assumes most machines are spammers, only letting select non-spammers through.

This blocking technique is very poor. I could not communicate with my earthlink subscribed family members because Earthlink uses this same unreliable blacklist from MAPS. So while they block email from friends/family, spam still gets through their blockers because spammers still use static IPs. So then you have a problem of losing important messages, along with the original problem of receiving spam.
permalink · 2003-11-06 18:00:10 · Print · Reply to this
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