Experiences with Comcast Ethernet

Tue Jan 4 21:18:36 UTC 2011

That is what we see too. Our connections are used 24/7 and we need lots of download speed so the price/performance is great. Except between 9pm and 1am when the links are saturated. 

Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer
Consulting Radiologists, Ltd.
1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403
ph. 612.573.2236     fax. 612.573.2250
dylan.ebner at crlmed.com
www.consultingradiologists.com

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hubbard [mailto:dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:10 PM
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: RE: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet

With the way their peering is these days, that probably
would result in a huge improvement; we have complaints
all over the northeast from comcast users who are getting
poor connectivity to websites we host as a result of the
overloaded Comcast->Level3 links and nothing we can do
about it even though we both share a non-Level3 provider
since Comcast wants the traffic to head out the bad
links.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.ebner at crlmed.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:05 PM
> To: North American Network Operators Group
> Subject: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet
> 
> My company has about 2 dozen Comcast business cable accounts 
> at satellite offices around the Midwest. We are looking at 
> adding an additional ISP to the mix and we are thinking of 
> purchasing an Ethernet circuit from Comcast in an attempt to 
> increase performance on those connections by keeping all the 
> traffic within Comcast's network.  Comcast, of course, has 
> assured us this will result in "noticeable" speed increases 
> for those accounts. I am more weary. Does anyone have any 
> experience with Comcast's ethernet offerings? How reliable 
> are they? Do Comcast cable connections see a significant 
> performance improvement?
> 
> Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer
> Consulting Radiologists, Ltd.
> 1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403
> ph. 612.573.2236     fax. 612.573.2250
> dylan.ebner at crlmed.com<mailto:dylan.ebner at crlmed.com>
> www.consultingradiologists.com<http://www.consultingradiologists.com>
> 
> 
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