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Mr. Luddite

On 2/27/2015 10:05 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:25:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I disagree.

We had DSL in the houses in Florida because cable was not available. It
was adequate for what we used it for at the time but was certainly
slower than the Comcast cable we had at the house in MA. The original
guitar shop I had also had DSL because the building I was renting space
in was not wired for cable. Again, it was adequate but was noticeably
slower than the cable service in the house and that was before our house
cable system was completely updated.

In past years we experienced numerous problems with Comcast but it turns
out they were related to the type of modem/wireless router they had
provided and the antiquated distribution system that was installed in
our house 14 years ago. About a year ago Comcast/Xfinity came out and
tore out all the old stuff and installed new, high bandwidth
distribution amps along with a new modem/router. They also increased
the speed from 25Mbs to over 100Mbs. Difference is night and day.
I can send and receive multiple high resolution images taken with my
camera and large video files via email with no problems. In the past
some of those files were too big to email and I'd have to use Dropbox
or some other method of transferring them to someone.

Reliability has been near 100 percent. During one of the recent snow
storms we lost cable service (both TV and Internet) for about a half
hour. Other than that I don't recall having an outage since the system
was updated and the new modem/router was installed.

When I had my weather station up, I had to turn off the logging
because the log file was filling up too fast. Comcast was dropping out
several times a day, some times for several minutes, sometimes for
hours. After Charley, the TV was out for a week, the internet was out
for 2 weeks. The phone was up the whole time, even when the power was
out.
Wilma was a little better but not much. TV was down a couple days and
the net for a week.
You might lose a day after any little squall

I can't think of a time that I have lost POTS and DSL hasn't been down
more than a few hours in years,

Comcast is legendarily bad here. There is column griping about them in
today's paper. My wife has several commercial accounts at the club and
they are always having problems (internet and TV). They don't treat a
big commercial customer any better than a guy with basic cable.
It is just what happens when you do not have any competition.

When the tech visited to update our equipment he said that Comcast was
in the process of updating all subscriber's systems nationwide. Perhaps
they haven't got to your area yet.