[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I had mediacom for about 1.5 years and had the same problems. Email was
practically un-usable. Reporting abuse was like throwing cheeseburgers
into a black hole.

I called it the "ghetto" of the Internet and it really offended alot of
the mediacom staffers on the list. I'm sure they are talented and gifted
people and many of the issues there are beyond their control, but I
still feel that way about it. It may be differant in other cities...

:) Dave


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:00, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 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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