Alternatives to Comcast

Dan Miller rambi.dev at gmail.com
Tue May 20 21:18:02 EDT 2008


Mine was blocked last night. After asking the tech at comcast about it a 
few times on if there was a time. He found out that it was at 3:01 on 
the 19th. Oddly enough, thats when my logwatch reports are sent from 2 
different systems.

How long was yours blocked?

Dan


kenta wrote:
> Speaking of this, oddly enough about 2 days ago I got a few logwatch 
> reports from my server at home, sure enough I checked and my port 25 is 
> now unblocked.  You may want to check yours as well.
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Dan Miller <rambi.dev at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rambi.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be
>     decent, but now they are horrible.
> 
>     Whats driving me away:
> 
>     Internet: Blocking port 25. Yes, I could illegally hack my modem, but
>     its not worth it. There goes all my logwatches and cron job outputs.
> 
>     Cable: Their compression stinks. Has anyone watched NESN lately? Even on
>     just digital cable, when the seen changes, the picture is horrible. For
>     the best example check out:
>     http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271
> 
>     I am strongly looking at DirectTV for tv, but don't know a good
>     alternative for internet. So my question is two-fold.
> 
>     What ISP is a good alternative to Comcast?
>     What cable/satellite provider is better than Comcast?
> 
>     Thanks
>     Dan
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