[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Tim Wilson]

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?

On 4/13/06, Carl Olsen <carl-olsen at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for home use.
> They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from
> Mediacom.  All
> I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in service.  It's
> been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and that was
> only for a couple of hours.
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
>
> I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and I've
> had DSL service for several years now.  The only downside to DSL in
> Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines are too
> old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them.  The majority of the
> problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor
> quality DSL modem.  The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may not
> be of better quality than the one I received.
>
> Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called them
> (the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem).  The
> woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't really
> know what she was talking about.
>
> I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest.  Best Buy has a
> couple of models for a reasonable price.  In fact they are the same
> modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.
>
> Jeff
>
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Tim
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