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Meh, I'll vote to the contrary; Comcast works roughly 99.95% of the time for me. Obviously that's an approximation, but I rarely experience outages and I've bee
by spike021 5y ago
Meh, I'll vote to the contrary; Comcast works roughly 99.95% of the time for me. Obviously that's an approximation, but I rarely experience outages and I've been using them from two apartments in the South Bay for 10 years. The first few years they'd occasionally have local service outages around 2am but since then I rarely have outages of any kind and my speeds are great. Not as high as they say I do but supposedly sometimes higher when I do speed tests.
And as far as alternatives, in the Southbay it's very limited. I looked into this when I moved earlier this year and even Sonic only had DSL available where I live now. AT&T didn't even offer gigabit, and I'm not exactly in a bad spot other than that it's a suburb area (but I'm extremely close to a HQ for a FAANG).
- m0lecules 5y agoReally miss having FiOS when I lived in NYC. AT&T has some dark fiber on the pole just outside my house but hasn't lit it up.
- op00to 5y agoYou should actually measure your network uptime. You’d be surprised how much maintenance happens at 3am. When people are up doing maintenance.
- guenthert 5y agoMake that 99.9%. There were two unscheduled multi-hour outages (each time a Friday afternoon) during day time of Comcast's service in the South Bay in as many years. Perfectly acceptable for a leisure offer. Those working from home these days who cannot rush into the office or take some time off, I suppose have a 2nd connection (e.g. 4G/5G).
- Fatnino 5y agoPalo Alto is halfway between Google and Facebook. It doesn't have reliable fiber. Hell, the electric grid can barely be called reliable. Sonic fiber is available by building, not neighborhood.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoI'm glad Comcast is working well for you. The Bay Area Comcast seems reasonably well provisioned and doesn't suffer the massive evening slowdowns so much of the country does. Comcast still has a history of doing stupid things though, back to the days they injected RST packets to try to stop BitTorrent. https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/11/eff-study-reveals-evidence-of-comcasts-bittorrent-interference/ https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/11/eff-study-reve...