[GRLUG] ISP shopping

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Philip J. Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> > I'm shopping for an ISP for home. Not going to touch Comcast or
>> > U-verse for this. U-verse because I don't like their router, and
>> > Comcast because the local loop's bandwidth will be shared with too
>> > many other local customers.
>>
>> I had Comcast in an pretty dense apartment location in the heart of the SF
>> Bay Area, California for years and never had a problem with shared bandwidth
>> or their service. Currently I'm using Charter here in St. Louis and I've
>> never noticed a slow down.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
> I was told by a Comcast rep that one of the things
> get with a business class service is "preferential
> treatment" with bandwidth.  Somehow they
> allow the business traffic through preferentially
> if there is congestion.

That's QoS with preferential routing. A reasonable option, but I've
got worries about Comcast doing DPI traffic shaping even on their
commercial customers, especially considering I'm going to be pushing
VOIP.

Also, when I last had Comcast, they had regular-as-clockwork service
outages at about 2:30AM every Wednesday night, at about the same time
as all their video channels gave the "this is a test of the emergency
broadcast system" message. I wouldn't use them for anything that
needed to run reliably overnight.

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