My problem is financial.I run a small FOSS development firm in Portland, OR (13 people). We use Comcast business and pay $150/mo for the 9mbit service with 5 usable static IPs. Service has been great for the last two years. I commonly experience sustained rates of 1.1MBytes/s from mirrors.kernel.org and we had two outages both in the first month of service turnup and nothing since.While planning the office move I casually did some additional price checking on Internet connectivity (monthly costs). * T1 from various carriers: $250 - $500 (plus I need to buy a router) * 5mbit DSL (Qwest + Easystreet): $200 (if I agree to Qwest voice, more for naked line) * 10mbit MetroFi: >$500, and staring at an AP could not connect to their free SSID on SE 7th & Ankeny * 9mbit Comcast: $90The only real 2nd option on that list is DSL from Qwest/ES. I loath Comcast's policies (state or unstated), and would like to find an alternative. At home in Verizon territory I have FIOS Business (4 static IPs, 15/2mbit service). Qwest: could you wake up and start jumping on the fiber bandwagon? Consumers have paid for country-wide fiber twice over with regulator approved fees in the 1990s.We use bittorrent quite often for the legal movement of FOSS. When Ubuntu releases come out I always throw up a torrent seed for a week or so. If Comcast begins to throw wrenches into this I will definitely be complaining. Businesses get a bit more ear to yell into than residential consumers.. not much, but a little. I always ask provider salespeople their stance on net neutrality and their bandwidth policies to at least to spark some water cooler conversations: "Are you getting more customers asking about Net Neutrality?".
I'd love to hear what they tell you. I did the online tech support chat thing, the tech didn't spend 5 minutes on the problem. He just wanted my traceroute and generated a ticket. Haven't heard a peep from Comcast since. I'm guessing they know what the cause is and don't want to discuss it.
s**t, i consider myself a massive downloader and I've never hit 90 GB in a month. Or maybe I have, but it seems like a huge number. I mean, average TV shows are 175-250 MB. Movies are about 1 GB unless its a straight DVD rip...s**t, how much are you guys stealing?????
nentisOct 25, 2007
My problem is financial.I run a small FOSS development firm in Portland, OR (13 people). We use Comcast business and pay $150/mo for the 9mbit service with 5 usable static IPs. Service has been great for the last two years. I commonly experience sustained rates of 1.1MBytes/s from mirrors.kernel.org and we had two outages both in the first month of service turnup and nothing since.While planning the office move I casually did some additional price checking on Internet connectivity (monthly costs). * T1 from various carriers: $250 - $500 (plus I need to buy a router) * 5mbit DSL (Qwest + Easystreet): $200 (if I agree to Qwest voice, more for naked line) * 10mbit MetroFi: >$500, and staring at an AP could not connect to their free SSID on SE 7th & Ankeny * 9mbit Comcast: $90The only real 2nd option on that list is DSL from Qwest/ES. I loath Comcast's policies (state or unstated), and would like to find an alternative. At home in Verizon territory I have FIOS Business (4 static IPs, 15/2mbit service). Qwest: could you wake up and start jumping on the fiber bandwagon? Consumers have paid for country-wide fiber twice over with regulator approved fees in the 1990s.We use bittorrent quite often for the legal movement of FOSS. When Ubuntu releases come out I always throw up a torrent seed for a week or so. If Comcast begins to throw wrenches into this I will definitely be complaining. Businesses get a bit more ear to yell into than residential consumers.. not much, but a little. I always ask provider salespeople their stance on net neutrality and their bandwidth policies to at least to spark some water cooler conversations: "Are you getting more customers asking about Net Neutrality?".
moushOct 25, 2007
When you sign contracts, you agree to things, common sense. Of course they can do what they want, it's a service.
scottwedOct 26, 2007
I'd love to hear what they tell you. I did the online tech support chat thing, the tech didn't spend 5 minutes on the problem. He just wanted my traceroute and generated a ticket. Haven't heard a peep from Comcast since. I'm guessing they know what the cause is and don't want to discuss it.
jamaicajamesNov 10, 2007
s**t, i consider myself a massive downloader and I've never hit 90 GB in a month. Or maybe I have, but it seems like a huge number. I mean, average TV shows are 175-250 MB. Movies are about 1 GB unless its a straight DVD rip...s**t, how much are you guys stealing?????