[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 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.

I know you don't qualify for the fastest speeds, but if you average 
availability with top speed on DSL, it comes out pretty good :-)


> On 4/13/06, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem I've have noticed with Mediacom is volume of pings I get,
>> which sometimes locks up my router.
>> -dh
>>
>> 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
>>> <mailto: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
>>>     <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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>>>
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>>> Tim
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