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Gillian Densmore

Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town. After a routine call monday to tech support with comcast turned into a shouting mach just to get my internet back up and reliable. I'm looking again for options. Surely someone does legit networking close to 1g gig each way that doesn't blow to work with as comcast does. It feels like they aren't happy till I'm infurated with getting stonewalled by some dude on the phone. As I hate that kind of relationship to a company. Is there anyone else santa fe? if so what's been peoples experience?

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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

Just tested my AT&T fiber: 937 Mbps upload. Different town than you, probably. I had Comcast in Santa Fe.

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Russell Standish-2

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:16:23PM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Just tested my AT&T fiber: 937 Mbps upload. Different town than you,
> probably. I had Comcast in Santa Fe.
>

Wow - so envious. We get about 45 Mbps down, about 20 up on a good day
on Malcolm Turnbull's NBN, and even that's a marked improvement on what we
had only 2 months ago - about 3Mbps down, 300Kbps up.

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gepr

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

Are you in AU now? Anywhere near any fire?

On 1/9/20 1:03 AM, Russell Standish wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:16:23PM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Just tested my AT&T fiber: 937 Mbps upload. Different town than you,
>> probably. I had Comcast in Santa Fe.
>>
>
> Wow - so envious. We get about 45 Mbps down, about 20 up on a good day
> on Malcolm Turnbull's NBN, and even that's a marked improvement on what we
> had only 2 months ago - about 3Mbps down, 300Kbps up.
>
>

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Barry MacKichan

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

In reply to this post by Russell Standish-2

One of the compensations for moving from Santa Fe, NM to here (near Durham, NC) is that gigabit internet is almost universal, at least in the newer neighborhoods. We had a choice of two fiber connections at the corner of our property.

What I’ve discovered is that there are not many sites out there that will pump the bits out that fast, so a gigabit connection is only marginally better than, say, 300 megabits.

Still it feels good to go to Speedtest.net and see the needle jump up to 800 megabits.

— Barry

On 9 Jan 2020, at 4:03, Russell Standish wrote:

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:16:23PM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Just tested my AT&T fiber: 937 Mbps upload. Different town than you,
probably. I had Comcast in Santa Fe.

Wow - so envious. We get about 45 Mbps down, about 20 up on a good day
on Malcolm Turnbull's NBN, and even that's a marked improvement on what we
had only 2 months ago - about 3Mbps down, 300Kbps up.

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Russell Standish-2

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:28:51AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> Are you in AU now? Anywhere near any fire?

Pretty much all my life, apart from an 9 month stint in Germany, and 3
months in Indonesia.

We're had some pretty bad smoky days here in Sydney, which has
lifestyle impacts of course, but not in any danger from being burnt.

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gepr

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

That's good to hear. I've been trying to use this site: https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.html
But it's awfully slow.

On 1/10/20 2:50 AM, Russell Standish wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:28:51AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
>> Are you in AU now? Anywhere near any fire?
>
> Pretty much all my life, apart from an 9 month stint in Germany, and 3
> months in Indonesia.
>
> We're had some pretty bad smoky days here in Sydney, which has
> lifestyle impacts of course, but not in any danger from being burnt.
>
>

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Russell Standish-2

Re: Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 06:31:35AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> That's good to hear. I've been trying to use this site: https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.html
> But it's awfully slow.

Well that is for WA, the western 1/3rd of Australia. I hear the
Nullabor has been closed to traffic the last week (basically the one
road linking WA to the rest of Australia).

To give a sense of scale to you Americans, imagine that not only is
California on fire, but also Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, as well as
New York State, Pensylvania and North Carolina. It is truly
unprecendented in Australian history, and larger by a significant
multiple than last year's Siberian bushfires.

I am optimisitic that this might be a sufficient jolt to cause us (as
in humanity) to take action - to jump out of the pot that has been
slowing heating up, instead of boiling to death like the luckless frog.

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