[Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

[Mr O]

Don't go with any satellite provider if you plan to move stuff
*through* your connection. They typically block EVERYTHING
unless you upgrade to the business package. 

Another reason for slow down on Comcast is because the node is
actually shared. College students probably have it the worst
with half a dozen roommates and probably half the residents on
the nodes run file sharing programs.

Some day we'll have free range packets that can go as fast as
they want in either direction :-)



--- Gabriel Merritt <gabemage at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have several students who have used Comcast as their ISP and
> hosted a server while using some sort of dynamic DNS service
> such as dyndns.com (there are others but I've heard they are
> the good) with little or no difficulty.  Comcast is well known
> for throttling their bandwidth, most notably during "peek"
> usage hours, which for your average Eugene/Springfield
> suburban neighborhood appears to be from 5:00 pm to about 9 or
> 10:00 pm (approximately when people are getting home from work
> / school and going on line and then going to bed).  Comcast
> actually collects data about peek usage hours for their
> individual network segments and throttles bandwidth
> appropriately.  I got this off a student with friends who work
> for Comcast and it more or less appears to hold up for my
> neighborhood.
> 
> If you start looking at some of the more obscure ISP
> providers, don't go with Hughesnet.  They suck.
> 
> - Gabriel
> 
>


       
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