[134326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brent Jones)
Tue Jan 4 20:24:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <017265BF3B9640499754DD48777C3D206AA8E9ADAA@MBX9.EXCHPROD.USA.NET>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:24:34 -0800
From: Brent Jones <brent@servuhome.net>
To: Dylan Ebner <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Dylan Ebner <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com> wrote:
> My company has about 2 dozen Comcast business cable accounts at satellite=
offices around the Midwest. We are looking at adding an additional ISP to =
the mix and we are thinking of purchasing an Ethernet circuit from Comcast =
in an attempt to increase performance on those connections by keeping all t=
he traffic within Comcast's network. =A0Comcast, of course, has assured us =
this will result in "noticeable" speed increases for those accounts. I am m=
ore weary. Does anyone have any experience with Comcast's ethernet offering=
s? How reliable are they? Do Comcast cable connections see a significant pe=
rformance improvement?
>
> Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer
>
We have a segment on Comcast Ethernet. We use it for other purposes,
just point to point for our needs, but it has been relatively stable.
However, we ordered 1Gbit, and we do use a full 1Gbit, for the first
few months performance was nowhere near 1Gbit until they upgraded some
equipment internally, but speeds have been stable, and reliability
good.
Note, Comcast Ethernet runs on their fiber network, which sometimes
uses aerial lines, I've heard of others having some disconnects when
poles get hit and stuff.
--=20
Brent Jones
brent@servuhome.net
