Comcast

[Joe Clever]

Raul,

I am currently a Comcast user and am quite pleased with their service. At
the moment, I am in a rural area of Pennsylvania. I was also a Comcast user
when I lived in the Philadelphia area. In my current area, they recently
doubled the speed to 3000 kbs down and 240 kbs up. I am supposed to have a
dynamic IP, but it has changed only once in 16 months, and that was only
after the system had been down for a day due to a blown power supply at
their headend. Otherwise, the system seems to be rock solid. I keep  my
Linux router/firewall and a server up 24/7.

I do run a lightly used web and mail server and have not encountered any
blocked ports or services. Well, not completely true, I don't seem to be
able to send mail from my server to anyone on comcast.net. I was able to
keep everything running and do remote administration without problems, for
six months, while I was in Mexico.

Obviously, Comcast is a huge system so YMMV.



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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:19 AM
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Subject: Comcast


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Hi.  I will be moving back to Denver here soon and it's about time.  
Right now I'm using Road Runner for my isp and have actually grown to 
like it a lot despite it's cable.  In Denver the only choice for 
highspeed Internet access at this time is through Comcast.  Any comcast 
users who can shed light as to their view on how the service tends to 
work is appreciated.  My concern is how aggressive are they about port 
blocking, icmp blocking, IP address allocation and speeds.

Road Runner here has recently in the last couple of months upped their 
bandwidth to 3 mbps down and 384 kbps up and I've gotten quite spoiled.

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