Moving from a Cox serviced area using cable broadband. In the new area,
Little Rock, I have a choice of using Comcast or trying SBC DSL. About the
only thing I know of Comcast is that it is called ComCrap!

Recommendations?

comcrap, commiecast, They have a few. All i know is i have good service with
them. Tech support is not that bad, but the installers sometimes can be
trouble. (the contractors usually. they tried to tell me that -57 recieve
power level was "very good")
"Jbob" <nobody@SpamCox.net> wrote in message
news:C1ngb.58618$a16.53902@lakeread01...

Lucky me here. I have a neighbor that is a Cox guy. He is very good. I
can count on him for checking my connection routinely, which by the way
needs to be done. The signal here varies widely enough caused by problems
beyond my house connection. I would have never known this had I not had a
neighbor that was a technician. I have gone from putting a TAP onto my line
to drop signal strength to the modem to removing it completely to restore
the proper signal strength back. All of this is because of changes in Cox
lines not my house. I hate leaving the area but leave I must.

"danboy" <dan@NOSPAMdanboy.com> wrote in message
news:iZudnXFP7eRknh-iU-KYiQ@comcast.com...

I've had both services in the past 12 months. Once up and running they both
were decent high speed services. I had a hell of a time trying to transfer
my Bellsouth DSL from apt #414 to apt #312 about 50 yards away within the
same apt community and with the same tel #. They never got it right.
Moreover with DSL the customer has to "wait while the lines are provisioned"
which can be 10 or more business days. Plus with DSL you must also have
phone service with Bellsouth.

Every time I have signed-up online with a cable ISP (Comcast, Cableone,
Roadrunner) 10 minutes later I had my login and pswd was 100% online. With
DSL it is a several day wait, need to buy local phone service, need filters
on all phones, and DSL typically is not as fast as cable depending on how
far you are from the "nearest switching station" ...cable has none of that
crapola!

My advice? Go with Comcast cable. I have had Comcast in the south and it
was fast and reliable. Unless Comcast has changed though they have a
f__ked-up usenet service capped at 1g / month! The service is outsourced
Giganews and that is great but the download cap is pathetically ridiculous.

Charlie

Sounds like you've had good luck with Comcast. Newsfeeds aren't a big issue
with me. I just don't do many binaries. Does Comcast block any ports?
Outbound Port 25 is one of interest.

"Charlie" <charlie@aol.com> wrote in message
news:vo5dkqr275vd1@corp.supernews.com...

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:08:26 -0500, "danboy" <dan@NOSPAMdanboy.com>
wrote:

Does the TV picture lose sync with that kind of signal level? Is it
all snowy??

Here, show him mine on Knology Cable next time he comes to the
house...(c;

Downstream Channel
This information display the current signal status of downstream
channel.
Lock Status Locked Modulation qam64
Channel ID 1 Symbol rate 5056941 sym/sec
Downstream Frequency 585000000 Hz Max Bit Rate 2048000 bps
Downstream Power 22.10 dBmV SNR 36 dB


Upstream Channel
The information display the current signal status of upstream channel.

Lock Status Locked Modulation QPSK
Channel ID 10 Symbol rate 2560 ksym/sec
Upstream Frequency 24000000 Hz Max Bit Rate 256000 bps
Upstream Power 27.25 dBmV

Ours has that little blue glow of POWER when you pull the F connector
out of the hole.....(c;



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0500, Bill M. <wbillups@hotmail.com>
wrote:

has been previously emailed to me, mostly from equipment upgrades to
make sure I don't slow down.

The service is what I always dreamed it could be.....



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

Well I stand corrected. It's the one that prevents me(or others) from using
any other SMTP server that uses Port 25 for sending email.

"Bill M." <wbillups@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9au6ov86a69ust2gp9aus5343d04obdro8@4ax.com...

They replaced the wire with a new line and it is much better now. It was the
old rg 59 (or is it rj59??)

Downstream Value
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Signal to Noise Ratio 35 dB
Power Level 1 dB The Downstream Power Level reading is a snapshot
taken at the time this page was requested. Please Reload/Refresh this Page
for a new reading



Upstream Value
Channel ID 1
Frequency 23984000 Hz Ranged

Power Level 41 dBmV

"Larry W4CSC" <nospam@home.com> wrote in message
news:3f82c39e.290919571@news.knology.net...

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danboy wrote:
RG-59 75ohm coax.. better is they used RG-6U (more common). Although
older systems still use RG-59.



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Good one! Makes sense!
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"Jbob" <nobody@SpamCox.net> wrote in message
news:C1ngb.58618$a16.53902@lakeread01...
I work for a major telco -- we provide DSL in most of our service areas.
DSL is not all the telcos tell you it is.

First, there are distance limitations -- 18,000 feet away from a central
office and you can forget it.

Also, if you are within the 18,000 feet limit BUT if your phone service
works through a remote exchange, you can't have DSL. In some cases,
customers easily within 18,000 feet can't get sufficient DSL signal strength
because of old, noisy equipment and lines -- even with the bridge taps and
loading coils pulled (which you must do to run DSL).

Setting up DSL is not like setting up cable. You must have a tech visit to
set up the splitter at the demarc; tech will set up your modem if you bought
it from the telco, of course, you can do a self-install on the modem. You
must wait several days for the DSL to be provisioned in the switch -- the
wait can be up to 14 days, depending on availability of techs -- so, you
call, purchase DSL, and they give you a work order number and a due date.
And -- if the telco has done a good job of selling DSL, there may be a
moratorium on new hook-ups until they add a couple of more racks to the CO.
With cable, you plug in your modem, get tech support on the line, give them
your MAC ID, and in a couple of minutes you're on.

If you are planning to order DSL, check carefully what you get -- some
telcos sell DSL only as a bundled service -- that is, you must purchase the
DSL and the telco's partner ISP -- Sprint, for example, requires you to sign
up with Earthlink whether you want to or not (though this may be changing).
So, you see the advertised price of $XX.XX per month but they don't tell you
to add $YY.YY for the bundled ISP. Static IP costs more and additional
mailboxes cost more. Remember, too, DSL requires a telephone line to
operate, though you can run voice and data over the same line
simultaneously -- that is, you can talk on the phone and be on the Internet
at the same time over one phone line.

I have Charter cable -- one charge, no modem rental charge because I use my
own modem, five mailboxes at no extra cost.

Go with the cable.
--

----

Joe S.

During the Fox and Friends show this morning they had the airport
delays report. The count went up. There were over 4900 planes using
lots more fuel than my estimate this morning......

If you need R-12 for your old car, which IS a better refridgerant,
just find someone going out of the country. Only the USA has banned
it, it seems. I paid $US0.63 per SIXTEEN (not 12 like R134A) ounce
cans on Caribbean islands. A friend sailed home with four cases for
my old Mercedes. Works great...much better than TEN DOLLARS a pint,
dammit.

Can you say RIPOFF without swearing? I still can't.



On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:40:03 GMT, redhat_devel <spam@spam.org> wrote:


Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

Modem's upstream power is still awful high. It has to scream to be
heard on the other end of the system because of the NOISE inside the
cable....



On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:14:26 -0500, "danboy" <dan@NOSPAMdanboy.com>
wrote:


Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

Hee hee....someone was fuming over the RG-59 and I invited him over to
the house to see my installation....

Before he got here, I disconnected the RG-6 and hid it under the
floor. I ran some lamp cord from the cable drop lightning arrestor,
just stuffing it into the F-connector hole so it would make contact
and grounding the other conductor....brown lamp cord....(c;

I was sitting here downloading movies at 2Mbps off Usenet when he
arrived, just to show off. I thought he was gonna croak when I showed
him the lamp cord going out the metal framed window and layin' on the
ground outside the house.....

The look on his face was................................PRICELESS.

A proper cable installation has LOTS of signal, not just marginal. If
they don't need to install an attenuator to prevent the modem's
receiver from being overdriven.....SOMETHING'S WRONG!

My attenuator is 20 dB!



On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:35:03 GMT, redhat_devel <spam@spam.org> wrote:


Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

"Bill M." <wbillups@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:acd9ovol9c2h4c2egt3kurv0vfqiflcs3i@4ax.com...
No I'm still on Cox now but moving to a Comcast serviced area. The port 25
block started this past summer with Cox and I guess others providers as
well. The problem is that with this block in place you can't use any other
SMTP server to send mail besides your providers. I am a paid Yahoo Plus
subscriber. I get 25 mb of mail space, can access my yahoo via a pop client
and can even send through Yahoo's SMTP server, that is until the port 25
block went into effect. The big problem here is that if you have you own
domain that also provides mail, use can't send through that domain unless
they allow use of a port other than 25. This has been discussed in detail
in the Cox newsgroups and I think as well as here.

"Larry W4CSC" <nospam@home.com> wrote in message
news:3f84c381.101093403@news.knology.net...

Larry I thought I'd try that suggestion several years back while I was
flying out of Niagara Falls, NY. It's just a short drive to go over the
bridge to Canada where of course you can also get R-12. I asked the locals
about this suggestion and they said Customs looks for R-12 on vehicles
coming back across the bridge from Canada so I decided against that one. At
least there. Didn't want to risk being the most heinous criminal since who
knows, sheeesh R-12. You know I remember knowing of the upcoming
restriction on R-12 years ago and meant to make a trip to WalMart and stock
up but just plain forgot. DUH!!! But I have heard stories of people who
have it stockpiled.

Larry W4CSC wrote:

Jbob wrote:

they did was ask me my country of citizenship, and waved me through.
Going into Canada, the only question referred to the Canadian paranoia
about guns.

If I lived close to Canada, I'd simply have the car serviced on their
side of the border. Hard to detect R-12 at work...(c;

Next, they'll be banning prescriptions from coming across the border,
in cooperation of course with the ripoff drug companies....another
topic entirely. Bus loads of senior citizens handcuffed and jailed.
GIF at 11...(c;



On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:30:27 -0400, "Jbob" <nobody@SpamCox.net> wrote:


Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?