My internet service was out *again* today. This time, for 4 hours straight. Then it was intermittent for a while, now it seems to be s-l-o-w. Yippeee.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Dan Hockey</b> <<a href="mailto:icepuck2k@mchsi.com">icepuck2k@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The problem I've have noticed with Mediacom is volume of pings I get,<br>which sometimes locks up my router.<br>-dh<br><br>Tim Wilson wrote:<br><br>> I had to unplug and plugin my cable modem again last night. I've had
<br>> lots of little outages with Mediacom. Frankly, the little outages are<br>> worse than a major one. It gets frustrating to go to a page and it<br>> loads fine, only to click a link on the page and you get a timeout
<br>> error. Last night, GMail actually reported a corrupt page to me. I'm<br>> guessing during the transfer, the javascript client didn't get<br>> everything it was expecting so it reported corruption, and I couldn't
<br>> do anything until I did a reload of the page. I can't trust Mediacom<br>> with my internet service, and they want me to trust them with my phone<br>> service? Seriously? And now they're rolling out 10Mb service?
<br>> C'mon, shouldn't you have rock-solid service before adding new services?<br>><br>> On 4/13/06, *Carl Olsen* <<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">
carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for<br>> home use.<br>> They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from<br>
> Mediacom. All<br>> I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in<br>> service. It's<br>> been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and<br>> that was<br>
> only for a couple of hours.<br>><br>> Carl<br>><br>> -----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>><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a><br>> <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: Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)<br>><br>> I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and
<br>> I've<br>> had DSL service for several years now. The only downside to DSL in<br>> Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines<br>> 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<br>> 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
<br>> 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>> _______________________________________________<br>> Cialug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">
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