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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mediacom is rock solid in my area. I had
to cancel their phone service because it was not compatible with some of my
other equipment, but it was also rock solid. I suppose the quality of the
lines is going to be a major determining factor is what service works best for
you. As I said, I don’t have any other options in my area, so I’m
thankful Mediacom works well here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Tim Wilson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 13, 2006
11:01 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Central
Iowa Linux Users Group</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankeny</st1:place></st1:City>)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 4/13/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Carl
Olsen</span></b> <<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com
</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Qwest offers DSL in my area (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Saylorville</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Township</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>), but only for
home use. <br>
They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from
Mediacom. All<br>
I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in
service. It's<br>
been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and that was <br>
only for a couple of hours.<br>
<br>
Carl<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org </a>]
On Behalf<br>
Of Jeffrey C. Ollie<br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM<br>
To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Central Iowa Linux Users Group</st1:PersonName><br>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankeny</st1:place></st1:City>)<br>
<br>
I'm on the northwest side of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankeny</st1:place></st1:City>
(near Westwood Elementary) and I've <br>
had DSL service for several years now. The only downside to DSL in<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankeny</st1:place></st1:City> is that
some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines are too<br>
old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them. The majority of the<br>
problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor<br>
quality DSL modem. The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may
not<br>
be of better quality than the one I received.<br>
<br>
Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called them <br>
(the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem). The<br>
woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't really<br>
know what she was talking about.<br>
<br>
I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest. Best Buy has a <br>
couple of models for a reasonable price. In fact they are the same<br>
modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.<br>
<br>
Jeff<br>
<br>
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Tim <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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