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Vonage DallasFlier: Whilst quoting lines, you convienently left a one out:
DallasFlier: Whilst quoting lines, you convienently left a one out:
So, 7 days of use during the hurricane, 16 days during the holidays, 23 days that I said Comcrap & Vonage worked happily together. I left out all of my tales of woe of connectivity issues with Comcrap. I figured the thread was about Comcast & Vonage working togther, not reliability of Comcast in and of itself. I also left out that Comcrap was without service for ~2 weeks after Hurricane Charley. I lost some of my Sprint lines, but not all of them. Out at the beach, I used a microwave link to the mainland (to a Qwest fiber) for 'net access after Charley and ended up using it for the rest of the other hurricanes of 2004, as Comcrap was usually the first thing to go out (even before power). When Comcrap was running, any power hit anywhere in town seemed to knock the internet service offline. So, while I was running on full generator power, my Comcrap internet signal would randomly cut out for 2-3 minutes anytime the utility power flickered. Sprint had things right (so it seemed) for the rest of the 2004 hurricanes after Charley, but apparently changed/forgot something in 2005.
Just looking over my list of Comcrap problems over the past 60 days:
*cable modems wouldn't sync, (multiple times)
*cable modems locking up,
*cable modems incorrectly provisioned, (multiple times)
*cable modems shipped with inadequate power supplies,
*cable modems not capable of handling the ordered speeds,
*DNS servers convienently die,
*DHCP servers not handing out the proper IPs,
*Comcrap upstream routers dropping packets, (multiple times)
*Comcrap techs randomly changing account settings which weren't requested
*incompetent Comcrap sales & tech staff who "forget" to do things, like file change-of-service requests, installation requests, etc. (multiple times)
*and Comcrap sent a cable TV tech out to one of my sites without calling ahead. The tech calls me wondering where I am (out of town) and he didn't even have the proper equipment on the truck to solve the problem and didn't have the training on the Comcast-provided equipment we have at that facility.
Problems experienced with Verizon DSL over the past 90 days:
*occasional packet loss very late at night (3am-4am, happened for 3 days) Verizon says they were performing maintenance.
*NO outages this past Friday, despite receiving 12" of rain in ~3 hrs.
*NO outages during the 2004 hurricane season
Problems experienced with Qwest over the past 90 days:
none
*NO outages during the 2004 hurricane season
Problems experienced with Cogent over past 30 days:
*12 hour outage 2 weeks ago when they apparently lost power at their local switching station (non-weather-related).
So, as you can see, they've been the biggest pain in my arse as far as ISPs go. I'm sure there's plenty of people who have good luck with Comcast, but I doubt they're in my area. I'd rather work with Comcrap than Sprint, but that doesn't mean I like them. It's more like comparing a Fiat to a Yugo... "Fix It Again Tony."
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• I have had vonage for 1.5 years, first with DSL and then with comcast. for 1 month
• I have Comcast Cable all is running fine for me as of now. Rumors spread fast. I would
• Well, misery loves company.
I am having the same problem.
Have replaced cable
• Comcast has been a little funny for me.
I had intermittent quality and reliability
• Comcast here (Chicago). So far so good. Really no issues with Vonage service over
• Comcast outside of Philly here, no problems with Vonage ever.
• Happy to report ....No problems so far in Springfield, Ma.
• Just signed up with Vonage yesterday as well as being on Comcast. My sound quality
• I am with Comcast in Hanover County, VA, just north of Richmond. I have had no problems.
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• Good idea scerruti
Updating mine now
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