Re: Question on "phone service" for lack of a better description...

* Bob Crothers <Bob2@cstoneindy.com> [2002-02-25 10:28 -0500]:
> I've got cable modem service and LOVE it.  I am in the Noblesville area
> and on Insight cable.  It has been much better than DSL.

In my area (Baltimore region), cable service is the best value for
high-speed Internet access, but I and many other people I know have gotten
far too annoyed with Comcast to stay with them.  This is largely the
result of Comcast's ever-encroaching terms of service.  We're not allowed
to run servers, for instance.  The most recent thing has been the
outlawing of NAT.  Yes, NATting through a Comcast cable modem is against
their TOS and they're apparently putting together a department devoted to
detcting stuff like NAT.

Yes, cable modems' peak download speeds tend to be higher than DSL, but
your bandwidth is shared with everyone else on your node and, in my
experience with Comcast, they don't partition their nodes very
effectively, so bandwidth is reduced noticeably at peak useage hours.

Perhaps other Cable companies are better, but Comcast has very effectively
driven me to DSL.