Re: Comcast != Single Entity (was: Comcast blocking IPSec traffic?)

[Jay <jay () ebart net>]

I base what I have said on the fact that I know many other people who
use Comcast in my region. My region is in fact the former @Home, and the
service is horrendous in terms of speed and quality. I am lucky enough
to also have Optimum Online at a different residence which is of much
greater quality and speed. I apologize if you took offense to what I
have said, as I meant it only for the former @Home region.
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:45, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> And many of us have had good to very good results from Comcast.
>
> Customer service is lame everywhere.
>
> The old term YMMV comes to mind with a vengeance...  Pretty much pick your
> broadband and surf the web to read the horror stories about it - you'll run
> screaming in terror back to dial up.
>
> The mistake is thinking of Comcast as a single entity.
>
> There are many different Comcast's ...
>
>    There's the former @Home foot print, (improved|destroyed) by AT&T.
>    There's areas brought online by AT&T post @Home now owned by Comcast.
>    There's the former @Home footprint (improved|destroyed) by Comcast.
>    There's other systems Comcast has bought over the years (MediaOne, et
> al).
>    There's the areas recently developed by Comcast.
>    There are old subscribers and new subscribers in those various areas,
> which have different 'Comcasts'.
>
> I'm sure there are other 'Comcasts'.
>
> All of them have different policies, privileges, equipment, different
> policies, different connectivity to the rest of the world, etc.
>
> As a simple example, as a former AT&Tbi customer, I have a nntp news server
> available to me.  People in other footprints and people who signed up post
> AT&Tbi - even on the same street as me, don't - they have GigaNews.
>
> Just because something is true of your 'Comcast' doesn't tell me anything
> about my 'Comcast'.
>
> -----Burton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay [mailto:jay () ebart net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: comcast blocking ipsec traffic?
>
>
> I've had many problems with Comcast, my connection has been lagging
> horribly and is dropped frequently. I've contacted customer service and
> supposedly they "improved connection quality". I'd recommend if you have
> the option to go with another ISP.
>
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:31, Mark McConnell wrote:
> > Comcast has many problems wit their network....
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: abe vigoda [mailto:ells_on_zone () yahoo com]
> >     Sent: Tue 8/12/2003 5:13 PM
> >     To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> >     Cc:
> >     Subject: comcast blocking ipsec traffic?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Has any else noticed that Comcast seems to have
> >     started to block ipsec traffic this morning around
> >     10AM EDT? A number of our home VPN users experienced
> >     complete loss of connectivity around this time. I just
> >     wanted to see if anyone else noticed the same behavior
> >     today... We just changed our configuration to work
> >     around the problem.
> >
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