[HECnet] BTW, Peter..

@Dave McGuire - I'm neither a kid nor a gamer. Perhaps you're confusing the business vs. consumer services? They are quite different; they don't even share a network infrastructure. Well, the business side is better, for what I understand here (in the north west,) many businesses use comcast business as backup, the primaries differ based on each choices. I don't know of any small company here using comcast as primary, however may be wrong for lack of data, there may be some, they (cable companies) lament too low business adoption, but from the other (business clients) side there are fears mainly of security and continuity of service. If you have redundant fibers to your door, you may be better off using comcast, since I read somewhere that getting fiber to the premises with ILEC may prevent you to revert back to copper in the future. On 2/11/13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 12 Feb 2013, at 00:39, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 12 Feb 2013, at 00:29, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 02/12/2013 05:56 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: "They're using sophisticated technology to degrade service, which probably costs them a lot of money. It would be better to see them use that money to improve service" So why is anyone (Dave) buying their service? I'm buying their service because it's the best service I can get here. (and it's significantly better than the best I could get in either Florida or DC, at least when I lived there) And it's cheaper by about 30% than what I had in Florida, though that was not a consideration, as my connectivity is my livelihood. As a bonus, for that 30% discount, I have more than twice the bandwidth and far, far better reliability. (I was on Sprint business class in Florida) Eeeek. Sprint! The horror... I am 100% happy with Comcast Business. They are a class act. (with the exception of that routing hole, which I will investigate!) Please keep in mind that this is NOT the same organization, business model, or staff as the consumer-grade shared cable network service. (There's fiber to the pole outside my building!) You've just reminded me...a bunch of the fibre AT&T put down in the '80s...why is a lot of it still dark? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! That? It was supposed to be rolled into two things, I believe it might have been part of a long distance roll out, and even fast Internet access for those specialty houses. If it had all been used...I wonder what the current US broadband situation would be like... And guess who bought access to a lot of it? Some crappy ISP that had no idea what to do with a huge amount of fibre? Also, I knew Verizon acquired WorldCom...but I didn't know it became part of Verizon Business. Is Verizon business just as bad as all of Verizon's other garbage? ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." Hello! Very well put. No not those binary digits at Verizon. Rumor has it that Google bought access to it, at about the time they were setting up their Google Fiber project, and along with the Google Voice one. The Voice one by the way surfaced first..... Now everything else that happens in this thread belongs to two people we've not heard from yet, Sampsa, and anyone new. In fact anything that goes substantially wrong will be Sampsa's fault, complete with an explosion of hungry tribbles. Oh and that DS9 episode you're wondering about was done using the same gear they bought for Forest Gump. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."