Re: [TCLUG:17351] cable modems again

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

I dare say you are probably not a power user (in my sense of the word).  I
am connected to my home PC from work ALL day and I am constantly dicking
around with it the rest of the day at home.  If it goes down for any two
minute period - I have a decent chance of knowing about it.

Latency IS a problem - well known and documented in this forum and many
others.  It is not a 24x7 problem - but it is about a 6x7 problem or so.
Packet loss probably depends on how many users are on your node.  My brother
is in Still water and he has nothing but trouble.  They just lost the entire
node a couple of weeks ago and apparently had to swap some hardware (I am
not sure of the internal details).

MediaOne + phone service = I hope you have cell phone if you have a medical
history.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Ackermann <brian_ackermann@bbros.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17351] cable modems again


> I never had any issues with downtime...I was up ALWAYS, for 6
> months....Packet loss also was not a consideration.  I never measured it,
> but it was not significant by any means...
>
> the rest of you complaints I experienced and agree with...
>
> > From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
> > Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> > Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:11:23 -0500
> > To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17351] cable modems again
> >
> > Terrible latency.  Only after 1AM can you expect decent latency for a
nice
> > game of quake.  (Their techies claim that anything under 200ms is OK -
that
> > is dial-up modem latency and not what you would expect from a cable
modem).
> > Down time is attrocious.  I was down very often.  There were spells when
> > they were up for weeks at a time and then they were plagued with
problems
> > again.  Their email services suck and they refuse to upgrade them.
Their
> > news (NNTP) service sucks - forced to outsource.  There was almost
always
> > packet loss at one time or another.  At one point yesterday evening (my
> > brother's modem again) packet loss was 17%.  Because of this - downloads
> > frequently stall and finally give up.  They don't allow the running of
any
> > services at all.  They won't allow the hosting of game servers (probably
not
> > enforced unless abused).  Their technical support is full of amateurs.
> > "Please - rebuild the TCP/IP stack".  Bafoons!  At least they
acknowledged
> > the problems with their one-way offerings and pulled it from the market
for
> > new users.
> >
> > Tom Veldhouse
> > veldy@veldy.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>
> > To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17351] cable modems again
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >>
> >>> I did have a cable modem - but MediaOne was disappointing in
reliability
> > and
> >>> features.  I have DSL now.  Either way - seems a waste of the worlds
> >>
> >> Im just intrested, how so were you 'dissapointed'?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> #nicnac@efnet 612.301.0265
> >> http://www.ringworld.org/  finger:dieman@destiny.ringworld.org
> >>
> >> Wait. Watch. Wonder.
> >> -J
> >>
> >> http://sluggy.com/d/971226.html
> >>
> >>
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