Anybody Using Comcast HSI?

ups4 · Last edited by ups4 on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:42:22; edited 1 time in total

Well up till now, I have had no complaints whatsoever with Comcast's service. Few outages, good d/l speeds, etc.
But as of tonight, there have been 3 DNS server outages in the last week.
There has been no real explanation for it either. Supposedly hardware failures Confused

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Fortunately there are other DNS servers we can use and I can surf, but this is getting more than a little inconvenient.

Paul
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FOX · Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:32:04 Post Subject:

i have a buddy using comcast and hes been fine from waht i know or he hasnt said nething yet

dadx2mj · Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:40:59 Post Subject:

I copied this from a very trusted user on a different forum. I dont have Comcast so I have not had to do this but maybe it will help.

ups4 · Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:48:02 Post Subject:

Yep, thanks Dad.
The Broadband Reports forum is where I hang out sometimes and where I got the alternate DNS servers from.

All is well as far as that goes, but I am a little concerned about the largest HSI provider in the country not being able to resolve a national outage like this.
I will be patient, but if it continues to be a problem Mad

Paul
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knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:11:58 Post Subject:

I have friends on Comcast, they've been having problems with their DNS server as far back as October. I installed ALLTEL's DNS server IP's on thier machines in preference over Comcasts.

99.9999999999% reliable below:
166.102.165.11
166.102.165.13

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:50:14 Post Subject:

I use my own DNS servers... never had a DNS problem Grin

Shadowsilence · Posted: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:07:35 Post Subject:

Boo comcast. I haven't been satisfied with their internet the whole 5 months I've had it.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:10:12 Post Subject:

SBC!!! all the way...i have a 3.0 mbit sbc with an unencrypted wifi router...if u are in central california sometime stop by and feed off my bandwidth.

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:18:11 Post Subject:

My Dad has SBC and is only getting 1.5MBs I have Road Runner cable and am getting 5MBs down but only 365kbs up

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

I had comcast over 2 yrs ago and after the crappy speeds and frequent internet connection drops (sometimes for over a day of no internet) I switched to WideOpenWest.

Its like night and day. Very seldom does WOW go down and even better - twice now they have UPGRADED my speeds for free! Cool, eh?