Anyone else having Comcast problems?

Neither!

Ooo... People sit here and quote d/l bandwidth rates. There is more to the internet than d/ing your DivX pornos at a faster rate.

Service, or lack thereof, has been my complaint with these cable modem internet providers -- not d/l rates. The problem is getting these com- panies off their fat arses to fix customer issues. I get daily mailbox fodder ads from Optimum Off-line for their "business" class cable modem access (near as I can figure it, it means you pay more for the same old same old shit service). Company personnel that might be interested in these services are also likely to have Optimum Off-Line in their homes. I don't know about you (generally, all of you) but in a business envir- onment, downtime is typically NOT AN OPTION. When people see this lack on service to address problems, they're not likely to bet the business on it.

You enjoy it. I'll stay with my 2xT1s, block of IP addresses, servers that are not a violation of any AUP/T&C and service 24x7 (365 days and holodays too). The only downtime I experienced was when a card in the DS1 TNI went south -- over a weekend -- and a field service engineer dispatch and issue fixed within 4 hrs.

My modem cable service is ancillary. It allows me to keep the kid's cyber-petri-dish (ie. M$ PeeCee) off of my network. Less bandwidth wasted answering to all of the PeeCee exploits putting one of these insecure toys on the internet invites.

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VAXman-
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And if they need that kind of service, they're getting the business-class option which comes with service guarantees. You don't get that with consumer-grade services of any stripe in the telecom/data world.

Reply to
Cyrus Afzali

....and do you think Cablevision/Optimum Off-Line runs tandem cable and fibre just for their business class consumer? Do you thing that Cable- vision/Optimum Off-Line has tandum UBRs, routers and servers for their business class consumers? Do you thing that they have different moni- tors watching for network issues? Do you want to buy some swamp land in Florida?

Reply to
VAXman-

You have got to be kidding ... RIGHT?

you expect someone who doesn't know the difference between "thing" and "think" to be able to read and understand you?

Reply to
Dr Feelgood

There is no way for the acronym VAX to become out-of-date. The computer architecture can go out of date, but if you have one parked in your back room, it's still a VAX.

Reply to
$Bill

Many years ago, I did my Fortran homework on a VAX 11/780. However, it was at work, not in my back room. ;-)

Reply to
James Knott

Can you read? I said they can sign up for the business-class service. Their speed will be provisioned for a business offering and the extra revenue you're generating for them will make it worth their while to guarantee your service. No consumer-grade service does that.

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Cyrus Afzali

Probably not. One would think he could get that if he's such a "tech" guru. These guys who come in here and insist on using out-of-date acronyms like VAX just crack me up anyway.

Reply to
Cyrus Afzali

I wrote a hardware driver for a VAX 11/780 that drove a Reed Solomon decoder box for Galileo spacecraft telemetry - also at work. Nice little machine, but we were running Ultrix-32 rather than Micro-VMS which made it livable.

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$Bill

James Knott ( snipped-for-privacy@rogers.com) wrote: : $Bill wrote: : : > Cyrus Afzali wrote: : > : >> Probably not. One would think he could get that if he's such a "tech" : >> guru. These guys who come in here and insist on using out-of-date : >> acronyms like VAX just crack me up anyway. : > : > There is no way for the acronym VAX to become out-of-date. The computer : > architecture can go out of date, but if you have one parked in your back : > room, it's still a VAX. : : Many years ago, I did my Fortran homework on a VAX 11/780. However, it was : at work, not in my back room. ;-) :

VAXStations and ALPHAStatations are easy to come by these days and VMS still has the gold standard for wide area clusters; e.g.:

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hp Alphaserver technology helps Commerzbank tolerate disaster on September 11 "testing disaster tolerance While most large organizations today have plans for Disaster Tolerance (DT), few have to put them to the test. The North American headquarters of Commerzbank, located less than 100 yards from the World Trade Center in New York City, put its DT plan into action on September 11, 2001. Because Commerzbank relies on OpenVMS wide-area clustering, volume shadowing and AlphaServer GS160 systems from HP, the bank was able to function on September 11 because its critical banking applications continued to run at the primary site and were available from the bank's remote site..."

Posted from a VAXStation 4000 model 96 using a VMS version of 'tin'.

--Jerry Leslie Note: snipped-for-privacy@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email

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leslie

================= Sorry for the late reply but the system was working fine but then the same problem (power and data lights only) came back. Comcast said the modem (original RCA from ATTBI(or whatever it was two iterations back)) may be going bad, and they would sent a tech out and I may or may not be charged for it. Told them I had a Surfboard 2100 that someone gave me so plugged that in last night. Could ping out fine (WWW try would bring me down to their 34 or so meg download page) so I'll call to get the rental charge($3/month) off and my own modem registered with them. I also told them I may be dropping their service and switch to SBC for $19.95 / month to see what they would say. Told me just let us know and we'll cancel your account LOL.

On a side note I also asked if I wanted to keep renting a modem from them what modems they were offering. Couldn't get a model #, just "RCA or Motorola" was the reply.

Reply to
Ozzy Kopec

I've been having the same kind of problems in the Detroit area over the past couple weeks.

Reply to
Augusta Eller

"Augusta Eller" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

I'm not surprised with the terrible number of POPs between you and the internet...through TWO systems in St Clair Shores to Grasspoint through TWO more in Lyndon then through Taylor before getting to ATT.

The times look fast but the routing looks just awful.... Routing table troubles? See how the time bounces around at ur03 in Lyndon? Too busy to answer my pings?

Your firewall is working great, however...no pings.

10 53 ms 52 ms 52 ms ATT-Level3-oc48.Washington1.Level3.net [209.244. 219.142] 11 85 ms 71 ms 74 ms 12.122.80.229 12 55 ms 73 ms 58 ms tbr2-cl9.phlpa.ip.att.net [12.122.2.86] 13 64 ms 65 ms 60 ms tbr1-cl1.dtrmi.ip.att.net [12.122.10.37] 14 58 ms 77 ms 72 ms gar3-p300.dtrmi.ip.att.net [12.123.139.54] 15 * 54 ms 51 ms 12.118.112.14 16 57 ms 52 ms 55 ms pos-1-1-ar02.taylor.mi.michigan.comcast.net [68. 87.191.146] 17 68 ms 86 ms 76 ms te-8-2-ur02.lyndon.mi.michigan.comcast.net [68.8 7.190.214] 18 88 ms 70 ms 102 ms te-8-1-ur03.lyndon.mi.michigan.comcast.net [68.8 7.190.218] 19 54 ms 52 ms 60 ms te-9-1- ur02.grosspoint.mi.michigan.comcast.net [ 68.87.190.222] 20 53 ms 55 ms 56 ms te-9-1- ur02.stclairshors.mi.michigan.comcast.net [68.87.190.226] 21 74 ms 56 ms 56 ms ge-0-1- ubr03.stclairshors.mi.michigan.comcast.ne t [68.86.121.86] 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out.
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Larry W4CSC

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