[PLUG] Comcast?

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 22:12:45 UTC 2009


I had them for 4 plus years and only experienced one service
interruption which was due to an upstream routing issue with level 3
that took the entire weekend to fix but tech support was upfront and
cordial about it.



On 4/17/09, Larry W <larryw at holbrookmasons.org> wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> After 2 weeks of running my mail server on their line, they blocked
>> port 25.
> Their contract, even B2B, prohibits customer-end servers of any kind.  I
> suppose blocking the port is akin to measures "up to termination."
>
> For my own experience, my only dislike is the cost.  I don't measure
> value in bandwidth because I rarely use what I'm given.  I get around
> 10mb average DL, upwards of 1mb upload, but would be just as happy with
> a T1-speed DSL.  But I'm too far from a CO (and don't have a hard line
> to the house anyway) to get DSL and FIOS isn't out my way just yet
> (southern Cornelius).  I've never called their tech support.  But I've
> emailed them and got decent responses.  Recently, though, their new mail
> center removed the ability to check multiple mailboxes (you can have up
> to seven per account).  Since I use that sometimes when I'm away from
> home I found that to be an inconvenience.  Their solution is to use POP,
> which seems like a step backwards.  But there you go.
>
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