Alternative Cable ISPs 20
Mud Husky asks: "
I've held out getting high speed access because Comcast had been the only option in my area. Now, Knology is about to start offering cable internet access in my area. Comcast has been the subjects of many Slashdot stories like this and this and so on... I'd like to know if Slashdot users would be willing to share their experiences with Knology (good and bad) and other smaller ISPs.
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Knology (Score:1)
Re:Knology (Score:1)
Google Groups (Score:3, Interesting)
The 1st hit is entitled "Beware of Knology"
Re:Google Groups (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Google Groups (Score:1)
Re:Google Groups (Score:2)
For a month every time I tried to call Comcast tech support, I got an "all circuits busy"
Someone else would quickly correct it with:
You are exagerating, it was only like that for about a week.
As a Comcast customer... (Score:2, Insightful)
who? (Score:1)
could be a good thing that i havent heard of them.
Hartford, Connecticut (Score:2)
Knology bad! (Score:2, Informative)
They (and all their friends) eventually switched because the service was so bad. Now, that was a year ago, and maybe they've changed, but then, maybe not. It took BresnanLink (later bought out by Charter) 5 years to get cable modem access right up here, and it *still* occationally screws up.
Two cable companies. (Score:1)
http://www.hbci.com/
http://www.charter.com/
When HBCI came, charter became a much nicer company to deal with and their prices dropped a lot.
I have knology (Score:1)
They are associated with ITC DeltaCom and have relatively quick connections, depending upon your neighborhood.
They don't seem to care about what you do, they support NetGear and LinkSys routers without question. They don't block ports, or watch what you do with few exceptions. I do have a friend that got a call from them for doing a port scan against his work network from home, but I know of no other problems.
On the negative side, I was getting probed heavily on PC Anywhere ports and they provided no help in getting it stopped. They didn't even issue warnings during Code-Red or Nimda, that I know of.
Would I recommend them? I have to several friends in the Huntsville, AL area.
Along the same lines... (Score:1)
Re:Along the same lines... (Score:2)
Up until last week (havent tried since then) @home's news servers were EXTREMELY faster then cox's own servers. (san diego area)
while doing my "research" on redheaded females, it would take up to 50 seconds to display a pic, whereas on cox's servers it would take no more then 4 seconds...
and thats not on the binary groups, its on all of them.
However, what cox's servers severely lack in speed, they make up for in breadth of newsgroups.
granted, some are empty, and/or useless (misslpelled variations of diff ones) they have a wide variety of groups that @home either never carried or blocked. if only they could speed things up with those servers, it would definately be well received...
Re:You may call me Commie (Score:1)
I'd also like to see this building where customer satifaction os a priority. It'd be nice f the techs there knew if I can ping by hostname, I shouldn't have to go back and ping again by IP address.
If there are enough complaints, you'll do something? You just said that customers came first. So what you are saying is that, customers are only first if they are in sufficient numbers?
Where'd you get that $40 figure? After comcast started their own network, my rates went up.
Re:The Commie is back. (Score:1)