Alternatives to Comcast

[Ben Scott]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:22 AM,  <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
> "If a thousand monkeys make a thousand calls to Comcast tech support, one of them
> will eventually have their problem fixed."

  The thousands of monkeys are at Comcast, not the customer end.  And
that's more than just humorous, because...

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Dan Miller <rambi.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a few minutes, he reopened the port, and a modem reset, and a few
> minutes later, I was able to confirm that the port is now open.

... at any given time, some other monkey may decide to re-instate that
block, or do something else unpleasant.  That's the real problem with
these big providers.  You might be able to get away with this or that,
but ultimately, you're at their mercy, and you can't do much more than
gripe ineffectually when they toy with you.

  If you want your Internet connection to not suck, get a real ISP.

-- Ben