[brlug-general] comcast

[mat branyon]

$400

On 10/23/07, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
>
> either you're too far from the CO, or the neighborhood is full of fiber,
> which kills DSL. What price did they quote you on T1 (if you don't mind
> me asking)?
>
> mat branyon wrote:
> > Sadly, I just got off the phone with them...
> >
> > They don't offer adsl where at the house I am buying, but they did try
> > to sell me a t1 line... stating that some people use it for gaming...
> >
> > so my high opinions of them dropped a bit.
> >
> > On 10/22/07, *Tim Fournet* <tfournet at tfour.net
> > <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Speakeasy is available in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, but
> >     that's
> >     about it. I was actually in VoIP training with Speakeasy in Dallas
> >     last
> >     week when that story broke, and the Speakeasy managers there were
> >     laughing about what Comcast is doing. Speakeasy does not block,
> >     filter,
> >     or throttle any incoming our outgoing ports on their network. The
> one
> >     thing that they do is to give voice packets priority on their MPLS
> >     network, but they have so much bandwidth in their backbone that
> >     nobody
> >     would even notice. Every account also comes with static IPs, and
> even
> >     shell accounts.
> >
> >     If you have them as a choice, it's definitely worth the extra
> dollars.
> >     Their support is excellent, and they support "alternative" operating
> >     sytems.
> >
> >     mat branyon wrote:
> >     > I just moved to Denver a couple of months ago.  Comcast is our
> >     ISP up
> >     > here, and I can verify that our service is horrible (roommate
> >     > downloads a lot through bittorrent).
> >     >
> >     > I'll be moving into a new house in the next couple weeks, and
> there
> >     > will be no Comcast.  There will be no Qwest either.  There will be
> >     > DirectTV, and for internet, Speakeasy (they even have an option
> >     where
> >     > you don't have to have a phone line).  Speakeasy runs about the
> >     price
> >     > of business DSL, but in their TOS they specify that nothing will
> be
> >     > blocked.  You are guaranteed nothing but the bandwidth you
> >     purchase.
> >     > They also give static IP addresses.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Last I checked, Speakeasy wasn't available in Louisiana (that was
> a
> >     > few years ago though)
> >     >
> >     > --mat
> >     >
> >     > On 10/19/07, *B. Estrade* < estrabd at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com>
> >     > <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Some of you might get excited about this:
> >     >
> >     >     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/
> >     >
> >     >     Brett
> >     >
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