[NBLUG/talk] Changed Network

[Walter Hansen]

Thanks about the map :-)

One of our employees uses Comcast and I set up their network and I did
notice that the bandwith changed by the time of day. Arround 2pm it was
600kbps and then at 5pm (everyone going somewhere, nobody on net) it shot
up to 1200kbps or so. I hate their annoying adds though. It's such a
blatant lie (not technically a lie, but you get the idea) if you actually
read the fine print on the page (*compared to 384k dsl*). I'm just amazed
people get sucked in by that. Also the montly service charge for the basic
account shoots up to $59.99 after the initial period from my reasearch.

> Walter Hansen wrote:
>> No, both sonic nameservers haven't changed since I've been with them.
>> It was the nearest router. Apparantly it is programmed to handle DNS
>> itself and behaves oddly if you try to access an outside DNS site. So
>> you make the DNS request of the router and the router then passes it
>> on to it's configured DNS server and back. This is probably a
>> quirk/feature of the router, but was not apparant. It's also odd that
>> for some calls it worked and for some calls it didn't. The windows
>> boxes are more of a mystery, true most of them are configured through
>> DHCP so the DNS server would automaticly set to the router, but there
>> are a few that have static IPs and they're all confgiured directly to
>> sonics DNS servers and I've had no problems with them. I should
>> probably do some testing on them looking for problems.
>
> I see what you mean now. Still the old windows mystery.
>
>> This is actually a reson to go with sonic as opposed to comcast, sbc
>> or someone else. They give you static IPs that don't change unless you
>> want them to.
>
> Yes, I've been looking at Sonic's services. I'm able to get over 3Mbps
> here on Comcast cable (w/out TV) and I got a deal for the first 6 months
>  @ $29.99. So so far I'm really happy' After my 6 months I plan to
> switch
>   or get the business pack at Comcast and it like you described static
> IPs etc + more bandwidth.
>
> BTW' that ascii art map you made really explains it all. I had a totally
>  different idea in my head.
>
> --
> Micxz
>
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