[Cialug] Internet access

[Andrew Denner]

I did find that mediacom would have long maintenance outages that would
happen unexpectedly between midnight and about 3 am and that if you called
in to support during an outage the CSMs were less then helpful.


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> Hi, I've found that Mediacom Cable has gotten extremely reliable in the
> last few years. In part because I stopped using their DNS. If you use
> Google or Open DNS services (free) then it is beyond fine. I pay for 12mbps
> and usually get over 20mbps. And as long as I don't reboot my cable modem,
> my IP address never changes. I have often run servers at home and usually
> have a shell account I can log into remotely for SSH access. I just use
> dyndns to keep a constant hostname I can point CNAMEs to.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:47 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Be sure to factor reliability into the subjective evaluation.  I don't
> > > know what alternatives you have available but things like cable modem
> > > Internet, at least in my experience, do not hold a candle to the
> > > reliability of DSL, even though I will admit cable has improved.
> > >
> > > -Nate
> > >
> > On the contrary, what ATT is selling for DSL now (uVerse) is really crap
> > compared to the original, dedicated DSL, and much worse (and
> significantly
> > slower) than current cable modems with DOCSiS3! The ATT service truck is
> > at the neighbors at least every three months trying to fix their uVerse
> > service.
> >
> >         Lee
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