28 Feb
2000
28 Feb
'00
5:05 p.m.
<To add insult to injury, here in Pac*Hell land both PB and Covad consider
<DSL to be a "best effort" service; if they can't get it to work they
can
<just walk away from the deal.
Or here 25mi west of Boston where I can nearly see the CO and BellAtlantic
says "soon" which translates to, your small fry, we can't bother.
In the meantime I have RCN ringing the doorbell every week for cable,
broadband and phone... I hold little interest in cable modem as I can
see that loading up and getting bogged down.
Allison
1 Mar
1 Mar
12:04 p.m.
New subject: [OT] Re: DSL Coming -- I may need help!
In the meantime I have RCN ringing the doorbell every
week for cable,
broadband and phone... I hold little interest in cable modem as I can
see that loading up and getting bogged down.
I think that issue is obvious, so obvious that it isn't a problem. I know
dozens of people on various cable systems, some for more than a couple
years, and it just hasn't happened to any of them ever. Plenty of other
things are a bit of a PITA, but 200k bytes per second both ways is hard to
walk away from at $39.95 a month.
1:32 p.m.
New subject: [OT] Re: DSL Coming -- I may need help!
I got cable before the dirt was dry over the trench. Its been a mixed bag,
TCI is
the provider, but they use AT&T for content and Sprint for the backbone. When
I first got it, it was like having my own T1 for $40 per month. As they added
more and more people, they began throttling the rates to fit more slots, and
now limit uploads to 128K.
Their first line support sucks, and follows a script which takes an average of
45 minutes to go through. (Run WINIPCFG, check you IP, check you modem,
are the lights on, etc). Its still a lot better than dialup, but not what
it should
be.
You can't put a server on the line, several have tried and they've been kicked
off. They also forbid you to tunnel, although I occasionally do. Instead of
tunneling through the $40 cable, they want you to buy @work, which is
much, much more per month. They continue to add customers on the line
until it become a crisis, only then after repeated threats do they seem to
acquire more bandwidth. YMMV, of course.
At 03:04 PM 3/1/00 -0800, Mike Ford wrote:
--Steve Mastrianni
In the meantime
I have RCN ringing the doorbell every week for cable,
broadband and phone... I hold little interest in cable modem as I can
see that loading up and getting bogged down.
I think that issue is obvious, so obvious that it isn't a problem. I know
dozens of people on various cable systems, some for more than a couple
years, and it just hasn't happened to any of them ever. Plenty of other
things are a bit of a PITA, but 200k bytes per second both ways is hard to
walk away from at $39.95 a month.
9:46 a.m.
New subject: [OT] Re: DSL Coming -- I may need help!
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:32:25 -0500
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
From: Steve Mastrianni <stevemas(a)persys.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: DSL Coming -- I may need help!
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Hi!
I got cable before the dirt was dry over the trench.
Its been a mixed bag,
TCI is
the provider, but they use AT&T for content and Sprint for the backbone. When
I first got it, it was like having my own T1 for $40 per month. As they added
more and more people, they began throttling the rates to fit more slots, and
now limit uploads to 128K.
Ditto, In early days early "97, I got cable. Wave, then Cogeco,
then now @Home. My ISP is in process of converting older users from
wave and cogeco to @Home. Reliablity is IFFY! Count on outrages in
everything from minor to major and performance is all over the map
with unpredictable results.
Which one considered best back then is Wave. Tech support is
bliss and got good frequent tech updates and get excellent clueful
replies from clueful tech people and community meetings. Now, silence
besides rare "trivial" ok all the way to silly, full of
errors newsinfos. Calling their support by phone is now
*hideooooous*, ranks same as compaq's tech support to get the idea.
Their first line support sucks, and follows a script
which takes an average of
45 minutes to go through. (Run WINIPCFG, check you IP, check you modem,
Being deaf, I have to remember to warn my relay operators to drill
through and get live support when calling automated tech support
types. Can't keep up with TDDs speed while typing and listening and
say "go!" because of bandot speed limitations on TDDs (ahem TTYism).
until it become a crisis, only then after repeated
threats do they seem to
acquire more bandwidth. YMMV, of course.
Ditto!
1. Newsgroups and email server sometimes go AWOL or go insane at
times. Even the surfing the 'net while email or newsgroups server or
both are hung out to dry or acting cranky. 2. Connections quality
varies from turtle's speed, no better than 2.88Kps all the way to
sonic speeds, norm speed is 56K speeds ranges. I have about 8
outrages in a year usually over a day or more.
I'm on the LANCity cable modem grey, 4 green LEDs with big 10 fins
heatsink case with seperate laptop style sized 40W power brick that
runs HOT. The newer ones are white, no heatsink on top. My former
old modem cable was Zenith one, what a treat, loved the reset button,
6 informative red LEDs in a row and internal PSU.
--Steve Mastrianni
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