[NBLUG/talk] What other high speed internet options are there?

[T]

I also have AT&T, the uverse package. It was great until about 3-4  
months ago. It goes through sporadic down times, especially during the  
evenings and I will start getting packet floods equivalent to DDoS  
attacks. In excess of 1-200k bad packets/5min, incoming. Mabey more,  
been a while since i check the syslog, and it just cripples my  
Internet making it unsuable.

Comcast is also another option for you. The company I work for uses  
it's business class services. It seems to be a bit more stable than  
AT&T; however, it will also go through it's sporadic slow periods.

~ Travis

On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:15:16PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> What high speed internet (other than AT&T and satellite) options  
>> are there?
>>
>> AT&T switched to fiber optics and I have more trouble with  
>> connecting now than before they done this.
>
> I second Lincoln's recommendation for Sonic.net.  Their technical  
> support
> is as good as it gets and if there is a problem with your line,  
> Sonic will
> go to bat for you.  I'm having a hard time picturing how AT&T's  
> switch to
> fiber would make a negative difference for you unless they screwed  
> up the
> wiring in the process.
>
> I'm wondering also if perhaps you're seeing a DNS resolution problem?
> Large ISPs are notorious for having slow, unreliable resolvers  
> (though I
> don't know about At&t's reputation).  The next time you're having  
> trouble
> connecting, try pinging the IP address for www.sonic.net:
>
> $ ping 209.204.190.64
> PING 209.204.190.64 (209.204.190.64) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 209.204.190.64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=7.91 ms
> 64 bytes from 209.204.190.64: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=8.37 ms
> 64 bytes from 209.204.190.64: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=7.82 ms
>
> --- 209.204.190.64 ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.821/8.035/8.375/0.263 ms
>
>
> If it works, but you can't connect to http://www.sonic.net/ then it's
> most likely DNS.  Reply back and we can help you switch over to better
> nameservers.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -troy
>
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