Since I have no good things to say about Comcast/ATT, I refuse to say anything about that rotten, thieving company that will never get any more of my business. On the other hand I have many good things to say about RCN. Fast, not bound to specific MAC address, great uptime, IP addresses don't change very often... Grass is much greener on the RCN side of the fence. At least from my vantage point.
I have Comcast (AT&T Broadband) in southern NH and have nothing but good things to say about them. In the 3 years I had them, I think I can count the number of outages on 1 hand and they were always very brief.
I've heard nothing but overwhelming complaints about Comcast. I have had email contact with dozens of municipalities who use Comcast for Internet service. Things like "weeks without service" is a common theme. I can't remember hearing anything good about them.
- Rob
Thumper <postgres@sedo.net> writes:
On the other hand I have many good things to say about RCN. Fast, not bound to specific MAC address, great uptime, IP addresses don't change very often... Grass is much greener on the RCN side of the fence. At least from my vantage point.
Yes, I've had excellent service from RCN. I even have a static IP address, and the connection has been up for ~8 months no with NO issues. Assuming you pay for a static ip, they block nothing. (otherwise they block outbound SMTP to anywhere but their SMTP server, and various inbound ports). Unfortunately, I think RCN isn't available in the Worcester area, is it? hmmmm....doesn't look too good :P -----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<---- Congratulations! RCN provides service to your area! Your Address: 9 GOULDING ST worcester, MA 01609 The following services are available to the address shown above: Dialup Internet -- Josh Huber
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On the other hand I have many good things to say about RCN. Fast, not bound to specific MAC address, great uptime, IP addresses don't change very often... Grass is much greener on the RCN side of the fence. At least from my vantage point.
huber> Yes, I've had excellent service from RCN. I even have a static IP huber> address, and the connection has been up for ~8 months no with NO huber> issues. Assuming you pay for a static ip, they block Heh. How quickly we forget, Mr. Huber. Remember when you called tech support, and the guy gave you network info which was totally horked? Like a gateway not on your subnet! - -phro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFArLpBH/inyh944bQRAiloAKC3+wAEZjjXDVusFegw/q+tGTT90gCgsXFI l/LppDitb70ImuyBGZp/J88= =HCDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:
Heh. How quickly we forget, Mr. Huber. Remember when you called tech support, and the guy gave you network info which was totally horked? Like a gateway not on your subnet!
Sorry I wasn't clear: when I say service I'm referring to the connectivity. As Jeff helpfully points out (thanks Jeff!), the phone support was not-so-hot. -- Josh Huber
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