[ale] Comcast problems?

[Sid Lane]

we officially had enough of them and got speedfactory about a month ago...

comcast (& predecessors going back to 2000) has been really cyclical over
the years - we'll have no problems at all for a year to two then it will be
horribly unstable for several months.  when you do have a problem their
"technical support" - well, there's just no point in beating that dog any
more than has already been done (I once had one of them tell me to "ping
yahoo.com" AFTER I told her I was getting NO dns resolution and 50% packet
loss AT THE GATEWAY - nuff said).

once direct gets their birds up/delivers on their HD promises we'll be
dumping them for TV as well...

On 3/1/07, George Carless <kafka at antichri.st> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone else experiencing issues with comcast?  I'm not exactly sure
> what's going on, but attempts to access Web pages are failing.
> Everything appears to work fine for a few minutes, and then kaput.  The
> slightly odd thing is that existing connections (such as the ssh session
> from which I'm writing this email) stay up, but new connections fail.
> It seems to be a cyclical thing, though - i.e. it'll work for a few
> minutes, then stop working for a few, then start working again...
>
> My first thought was that it was a DNS issue, but attempts to access
> sites by ip address fail as well.
>
> Any thoughts?  Or could this be a problem with my router / vonage /
> something else?
>
> Thanks,
> --George
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