Re: comcast or verison for internet

My experiences with UVerse have been the total opposite of all of this. I've
been using UVerse for the last year. Mind you, I think AT&T is actually
slightly more evil in general than Comcast (or, you know, anyone really). I
should know, as I worked for them once upon a time when they were still SBC.
None the less, UVerse has fewer restrictions than Comcast, and I'm told will
even unblock port 25 if you ask them nicely. If you have a choice, and don't
want to be throttled and filtered, UVerse is a better bet.

The only argument I can see in favor of Comcast is that they offer faster
connections. UVerse is nowhere near as fast, but if 10Mbit/1Mbit is fast
enough for you, then it doesn't matter.

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W. Scott Lockwood III 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trev
Peterson
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:16 PM
To: Carl Karsten
Cc: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [LUNI] comcast or verison for internet

I currently have the 12/2mbps business service with 5 static IPs.
Haven't noticed throttling (that doesn't mean it's not done though).
Most of the time my transmission client seems to show the upload speed at
25KB/s (yes, big B as in bytes there).  I should mention I have found no
ports blocked and haven't noticed anything (they block smtp outbound on
residential).

I'm not a big comcast fan but this connection was a surprise.  So far quite
stable, performant with no noticeable throttling or blocking tnd they
haven't even screwed up the billing yet.  I still keep a close on them
though, they ARE comcast after all.

I've had tons of problems with AT&T in the past.  Everything from them
pushing new firmware to their switches which broke customer owned DSL modems
for weeks before they rolled out a new patch to speed changes, disconnects,
unreliable service, etc.  Mind you none of this is with Uverse but rather
straight DSL but they seem to be a total mess internally.  If you ever want
to test this call and ask when the last firmware upgrade at your DSLAM was.
Not only idea what you're asking they have no idea who to send you to.  You
will almost assuredly be
bounced around until you just give up.   The last techs I worked with
told me they outsourced their internal L2 support to India.  Brilliant, the
on-site techs getting paid $20+/hr wait on hold in queue to get to a call
tech in India that has little idea what is happening on the ground here.
Only took 4+ hours for a normal business DSL install.  That was a couple
years back now but it was indicative of their competency.  Can't say much
about them after that since I recommend my clients avoid them wherever
possible. 

Hope this helps and good luck,

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 20:15 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Which comcast package?  256k up is what I get from my residential 
> service once the throttle kicks in.
> 

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Trev Peterson
Advanced Reality
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 847 406 9018

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