[ale] OT I had to relate this Comcast conversation with y'all

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 06/26/2012 01:37 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 11:19 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> On 06/25/2012 10:52 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>>
>>> Are there any advantages price wise over residential? I get the part
>>> of supposed better service.
>>>
>>>
>> Price is a bit more but the quality of service is more what I was
>> accustomed to with SpeakEasy. The ability to run servers and no
>> bandwidth caps was vital for me. I put up with much slower service a
>> long time until I was sure I could get servers on Comcast with them
>> trying to run them with port blocking and caps. With BusClass, you get a
>> pipe and a promise to keep that pipe open and running.
>>
>
> I'm thinking of bailing on Atlanta Nexus.  I've rationalised since 2008
> that I was doing better than AT&T.  I can no longer do that.
>
> 1.  I'm surrounded by people getting faster speeds.  I see idiots
> getting 12+ down and higher.
>
> 2.  Internet goes down Friday and I call AN.  I get "AT&T says you are
> in an outage area and it will be up by 1pm on Saturday".
>
> 3.  No night or weekend support.
>
> Other then the fact they do not block ports and are not afraid of Linux
> what does this almost $30 extra a month I pay getting me?

I'm with u-verse and they do not block ports.  Although I requested it, 
so I may have gotten lucky.  The u-verse techs that I've had to deal 
with seemed to be on top of their stuff.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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