Text 9439, 61 rader
Skriven 2006-01-28 21:36:06 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 9438 av John Oellrich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: DAMN! Have to Change Broadband Providers Again!
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


I've got a Comcast cable modem here.  Most of the time, I get 750kBytes/sec
download speeds.   Occasionally it will drop to
300kBytes/sec or so.  $45 per month.  Upload is 512kbits/sec or 384kbits/sec or
something in that area; not sure what it is, but it's fast enough.

I have an OpenBSD firewall talking to the cable modem 24/7, and Comcast has not
changed my IP address since I started.  The firewall can be offline for a day
and I will still get the IP address back.

SBC (the local phone co) can't come close to the speeds or price of Comcast.

The only problem I have is that Comcast is slimy, and I do not like giving them
more money...

 /m





On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:07:32 -0500, "John Oellrich" <john@oellrich.us> wrote:

>Last year I changed from using Patriot Media, cable, as my broadband provider,
back to Sprint/Earthlink. Took a bit of a hit in terms of download speed, 3Mbps
vs. 4Mbps, the Sprint monthly charge was significantly less, plus using
Earthlink as their portal is a plus. PatMedia didn't even have newsservers as
part of their offering.
>
>But while I was checking out some Cable HDTV stuff I noticed that PatMedia has
significantly boosted their download and upload speeds. Going to 12Mbps down, 1
Mbps up in April (10M/768K until then). Screw the newsserver, gimme the raw
bandwidth ;->
>
>But I also checked to see what Sprint's current offerings are, 5Mbps max down,
640K up. But here is the kicker. PatMedia is $69.95 a month for their fastest
service, Sprint is $59.95! Ten bucks a month for over double the bandwidth, can
we say DUH? I knew we could ;->
>
>Of course there is the issue of what bandwidth is really delivered. In the
past I found that PatMedia pretty much met their max speeds amd  Sprint fell
slightly behind (using the dslreports.com speed tests). And there is another
reason I'm pretty sure PatMedia will come up to snuff, their distribution is
optical except for the last 100 feet.
>
>Now here is one of John's stupid tricks! When I went back to Sprint I still
had a couple of months left on my PatMedia contract and forgot to discontinue
the service when the contract was over. So I just switched to the PatMedia
cable modem and got a 4,468Kbps down and 750Kbps up. 10 minutes earlier I
tested the Sprint connection and got 2,920K down and forget how much I get up.
Just submitted PatMedia an on-line form to upgrade my broadband.
>
>But here is one of the better things about using PatMedia, of the three e-mail
accounts I use. oellrich@earthlink.net, oellrich@patmedia.net, and
john@oellrich.us, 100% of the SPAM comes from the Earthlink account, so
ditching Earthlink will end up being a positive.

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