[RFI] Comcast/Xfinity X1 service

[David Cole]

Hi Bill,

Rest assured you share your bandwidth with every DSL customer in your
area, and the entire telco.  It all get aggregated someplace, either on
the way to the CO, or at the CO.

Telcos of late, (last few years), have been deploying remote DSLAMS, and
emulating the cable model, (using remote nodes poked way out in the
fringes of coverage to extend range from the CO), I have one about 500
feet from my home, (and several miles from teh CO), and have examined it
carefully once when it was opened by a telco person.  

The same bandwidth distribution model is in play with DSL, although here
Comcast scales it differently.

Not to defend Comcast, (they certainly have their issues), but my
Internet service is second to none with Comcast, and DSL here has a
reputation of not being anywhere near as good as cable...  

No matter when I test it, and over the years I have tested it hundreds
of times), I ALWAYS, get my rated up/down speeds, or better with
Comcast.  Else it is broken completely...  I have had maybe three
slowdowns in 5 years, all fixed within a day.

DSL in this part of the country is just the opposite, the DSLAMs seem to
be spread far, wide, and packed with users, so the model you described
is much worse here than in your part of the country.


-- 
Thanks and 73's,
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On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 12:03 +0000, Bill Price wrote:
> I personally don't care for Comcast internet service. You see, the
> problem with Comcast internet service is that the bandwidth is shared
> by all your surrounding neighbors that also use Comcast. Sure, it CAN
> be fast if no one else is on but you. But that 45 Mbps download speed
> that Gary (WA6FGI) alludes to (I'm positive he had a typo as he said
> 45 Gbps) is sure to be bottlenecked down when all your neighbors and
> neighborhood kids get home from school and start downloading videos
> and songs and podcasts. That's why I have DSL. I pay for MY bandwidth
> and do not share it with anyone except those that are on my network. I
> am paying for "up to 45 Mbps down and up to 6 mbps up." I always get
> in excess of 50 Mbps down and right at 6 up.
> 
> 
> Bill      W5LO
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, June 25, 2015 7:29 AM, David Cole <dave at nk7z.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Same here, best Internet delivery service so far...
> -- 
> Thanks and 73's,
> For equipment, and software setups and reviews see:
> www.nk7z.net
> 
> For MixW support see;
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info
> For Dopplergram information see:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info
> For MM-SSTV see:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 20:29 -0700, wa6fgi wrote:
> > We have xfinity, best Internet  speeds ever. In excess of 40gbs
> download. Gary...wa6fgi 
> > 
> > 
> > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A-------- Original message --------From:
> Leigh Sedgwick <bipi at comcast.net> Date: 06/23/2015  2:03 PM
> (GMT-08:00) To: rfi at contesting.com Subject: Re: [RFI] Comcast/Xfinity
> X1 service 
> > No problems here either in or out of the equipment.  All my
> neighbors have
> > this service too and no problems there either (except for my next
> door
> > neighbors piece of crap plasma RF generator TV).
> > 
> > Mike
> > K7PI
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Anthony
> DeBiasi
> > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:53
> > To: rfi at contesting.com
> > Subject: [RFI] Comcast/Xfinity X1 service
> > 
> > Does anyone in the group have experience with the Xfinity X1 service
> in
> > their home.  I have heard from unreliable souces that it does not do
> well in
> > an RF enviroment.  If cable is a closed system I do not understand
> why it
> > should not work as advertised.  Would appreciate the benefit of
> anyone¹s
> > experience.
> > 
> > 73, Tony K2SG
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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