FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

Fri Jul 17 22:38:54 EDT 2015

We had Fairpoint over here in Vermont for years and their service was
pretty good, net and landline.  Then last fall we asked to upgrade to their
business account level in hopes of more speed.  Within a couple of days we
had no service at all, zero, and then ensued many weeks of email, snail
mail and phone calls back and forth and getting nowhere.  They also had the
strike going on and apparently temps working the phone lines and going out
to the field calls.  Also reported sabotage of company equipment.

Finally, we also reluctantly switched to Comcast (Saint Albans Bay) and it
was better immediately, but in the past couple of weeks it's been dropping
at random several times a day, no idea why.  And our next-door neighbor
asked me about then how our service was and I mentioned this;  he said his
has been the same and he was fed up.  He was also shocked at how little
we're paying and told me he started out paying that amount, roughly, but
now, three years later, it's three times as much per month.  So he's gone
with the Dish network for tee-vee and net, I guess, and Fairpoint for
landline.  A local ISP outfit evidently has a tower on Hathaway Point,
which is sort of opposite us across the bay here, but direct line of
sight.  I gotta ask him how it is when I see him around again.

I keep hearing how the net is changing the universe and the cloud is
wunnerful and so on but it looks like that's only for the big cities in
Megalopolis.  If we were trying to run a business that relied on the net
here, which we are, it's not working out real well so far.  Or take online
courses and training.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Steven C. Peterson <scp at mainstream.net>
wrote:

> Auburn is a Comcast territory and is available if you ask, this is not a
> publicly advertised service
> You need to be within 3/4 a mile of a node or splice box if above ground
> or 1/4 of a mile underground.
>
> Quick note on the two options ( I did not know any one other then
> fairpoint and comcast had fiber to the home in the state)
>
>  TDS is running a (G)PON network, this is still fiber and a great service
> if you can get it. this uses an advanced version frame relay / ATM network
> with your wave length sent to 32 to 64 terminals that then sort out your
> data from the rest. this service is cheaper to provide as they only need
> active equipment for 256 homes ( 1: 4 CWDM splitter, followed by a 32 or 64
> w DWDM splitter in the field)
>
> Comcasts fiber service is Metro Ethernet, same ethernet we are all used to
> delivered over single mode fiber. this is a packet switched system with you
> and only you on a wave length between your site switch and the head end
> switch. this is way more costly to deploy but more secure and your able to
> provide much better SLA's.
>
> Also no love lost on Comcast just happen to be very happy with the
> service, at home and at my customer sites, the Enterprise division is not
> the same old Comcast every one is used to dealing with.
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>   Matt Minuti <matt.minuti at gmail.com>
>  July 17, 2015 at 15:53 via Postbox
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> If only someone offered such nice service in auburn... I'm still on 6/1
> for $60...
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>  Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com>
>  July 16, 2015 at 19:01 via Postbox
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>  Not sure where your local area is, but many towns served by the telecom
> TDS have, or will soon have, TDSFiber available. For plain old residential
> service at $49+fees, they are offering 100Mbps up to 1 Gbps, triple bundles
> and some discounts during the rollout. A local billboard claims it's the
> fastest residential service in the country, though I'm not sure if that
> discounter Google Fiber or had some disclaimer in fine print.
>
> https://www.tdsfiber.com/where/
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Steven C. Peterson <scp at mainstream.net>
> wrote:
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>  July 16, 2015 at 18:16 via Postbox
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>  As an fyi for any one who wants major bandwidth at home Comcast has in
> our area a Metro Ethernet service for residences
> 505/125mb.
>
> New Hampshire was the pilot test for the 1gb and 2gb services they are
> rolling out down south. They have told all of the new England beta tests
> that they will be moved to 2gb service this fall
>
>  I have been on it since January and it is fantastic, catches $299 per
> month + tax and lease (a cienea metro e switch) 3 year contract. and a $250
> installation fee
>
> Need to be with in an arbitrary distance of a Comcast splice or node (
> they base this on the cost to get the 12 fiber single mode run into your
> home)
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> This is the same service and network they sell to enterprise customers.
> they include block of 5 IPv4 and a /48 IPv6 static with the service fee
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