[112239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: comcast price check
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sat Feb 21 12:02:37 2009
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:02:21 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Steven King <sking@kingrst.com>
In-Reply-To: <49A03147.5020308@kingrst.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:52:23 -0500
Steven King <sking@kingrst.com> wrote:
> I can't even get reliable home cable internet service from them. No
> way I would ever consider using them for transit. I would only
> consider a stub peer with them to help out the poor Comcast customers
> who are also trying to get to my data centers.
>
I have decent (though of course by no means perfect) home
business-grade cable Internet from them. I can download files from my
office at 13M bps disk-to-disk, though of course uploads are slower.
And their service people have been excellent since Verizon started
offering FIOS in my town... (Yes, there have been glitches, most
amusingly when I started seeing 5-20% packet loss and 5-90% packet
duplication, and was told to clear my (Internet Explorer, which of
course doesn't run on BSD) browser cache...)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
