comcast

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 9:45 pm, dan at geer.org wrote:
> Anyone else on Comcast currently getting dialup-speed service
> and nameservice timeouts?  Literally 56K bytes to first hop
> (10.208.24.1 = 10g-9-2-ur02.cambridge.ma.boston.comcast.net)
>
> I'm in Cambridge near B.U. Bridge
I would suggest, first test your bandwidth with one of the free bandwidth 
measurement sites. 
http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=3
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

You should show a reasonably good bandwidth nearing 6Mbps (down).

You might also want to change your name servers around. 
Here is my current setup.

nameserver 24.34.240.9
nameserver 24.34.241.9
nameserver 68.87.64.196

gaf at gaf:~> traceroute 24.34.240.9
traceroute to 24.34.240.9 (24.34.240.9), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.217.230.1  11.944 ms   14.136 ms   13.089 ms
 2  68.87.157.193  14.814 ms   13.718 ms   15.298 ms
 3  10g-9-3-ar02.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net (68.87.145.161)  17.541 ms   
7.769 ms   9.644 ms
 4  10g-9-1-ur01.chelmsfdrdc2.ma.boston.comcast.net (68.87.145.186)  17.904 
ms   20.799 ms   19.864 ms
 5  24.34.240.241  20.912 ms   20.003 ms   19.201 ms
 6  * 24.34.240.241(N!)  18.487 ms *

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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