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?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Olsen</b> <<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@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;">Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), 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><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>] 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 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 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>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list
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