RCN vs. Comcast

[timk at jtse.com (Tim King)]

David Backeberg <dave at math.mit.edu> wrote:
> I've been using Comcast for my cable and internet for at least nine months 
> and I've been very pleased with the solid service. I'm moving to 
> Somerville at the end of the month and I have a choice between Comcast and 
> RCN. Has anybody on the list used RCN, and what was your experience like?
> I think Comcast's official ToS say no servers, but I'm running httpd and 
> sshd and they've never stopped me.

I had Comcast in Walpole a little over a year ago, and got RCN when I 
moved to Waltham.

RCN service is good, with few outages, of similar quality to what 
Comcast was. I have a home LAN. (I didn't ask them whether that was 
alright. I just did it.) I run sshd to the outside world and block other 
incoming ports.

-TimK