[PLUG-TALK] Comcast web space changes

[alan]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Brent Rieck wrote:

> Paul Mullen wrote:
>> Comcast currently charges me less than they did several years ago when
>> I first signed up, and available bandwidth has increased in both
>> directions.  I think it all depends on what neighborhood you live in.
>> If you're lucky enough to live in an area where the apparatchiks have
>> accidentally allowed competition to take place, then things aren't so
>> bad (meaning, "suck less than they could").
>
> Really?  Do you have a non-vanilla account?  My vanilla residential
> account costs have gone up over the last several years I believe.
> Bandwidth has improved but the download bandwidth was already fast
> enough to begin with; before the speed bumps it was the extremely rare
> occasion that I could actually max it out.  Upload bandwidth is not even
> close to what I desire.  Oh yeah, and they go down at least 5 times a
> week for 30 minutes at time.  It would be nice if DSL moved to my
> neighborhood so I could at least threaten to leave Comcast.

To make matters worse, if you are on Comcast, you share bandwidth with 
everyone on your block. If I have DSL that is 3mbs download, that is for 
my connection alone.  If you have the same with Comcast, the whole block 
you live on shares that chunk of bandwidth.

Just to show how out of date they are...

They just added support for Frontpage, a technology that has been obsolete 
since at least the year 2000. Next they might allow you to use Perl 5.005.

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