[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Carl Olsen]

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.

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Tim Wilson
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:01 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

 

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
<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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