Re: comcast or verison for internet

I've been with Comcast for years.  The service has been reasonably good.  I've 
not noticed any throttling but haven't really checked.

They didn't used to block port 25 on my residential line, and I ran a mail 
server just fine.  Then something happened about 3-4 years ago and they 
noticed, and killed the port.  I called them and they denied doing any port 
blocking several times, before telling me that they were blocking that port 
now because I was using it.  (Uh, whut?)

I switched to a business line with them, and they took three tries to hook it 
up properly.  They simply could not figure out what type of router or modem I 
needed, and it took multiple calls to their office by their own technician to 
figure out that yes, they can in fact install a non-router cable modem on a 
business line.  Epic fail.  Once they sorted all of that out, however, the 
connection has been reasonably stable (a few outages but generally not for 
very long) and I've had no problems with the speed.

So I don't know if they're doing anything evil, but in my experience they're 
just incompetent. :-)

--Larry Garfield

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:31:42 am Trev Peterson wrote:
> As I said I don't believe Comcast BUSINESS blocks any ports.  Just
> verified that port 25 outbound is not blocked by default.  There are no
> caps and as I said I haven't NOTICED any throttling.  HTH,
> 
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 07:46 -0500, W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > 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.
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