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Thursday July 17, 2003

Our new Internet Service from Comcast

Yesterday, Comcast showed up to install their cable internet service at our new house. Long story short: We bought a new house by DU, but haven't sold ours in Morrison yet. Hopefully it'll sell soon, or we'll be stuck paying two mortgages. I have to give a glowing review to Comcast and how everything was executed in setting up our service. One week ago, I signed up for (and scheduled) an appointment online to have Comcast High-Speed Internet installed. They called me to confirm my appointment two days before, and then gave me a 2 hour window that I had to be at the house. The guy showed up 5 minutes early, and was done 15 minute early. Sweet! We have nothing else in the new place (we haven't moved yet), but we have internet access - yeah baby, yeah.

I'm very impressed - it only took one week to get high-speed internet. Remember the days when it would takes months from the time you ordered DSL until it got installed? I'm pumped too because it's cable, which is the fastest IMO. I have friends in town with DSL and friends with cable; cable is much, much faster (~ 2MB down). You might think I'm biased because I currently work at Comcast. At Comcast, not for Comcast - I'm just a contractor, no benefits for me. The lucky bastards I work with get cable and high-speed internet for free - not to mention a TV in their office/cube (if they want).

Posted in General at Jul 17 2003, 06:17:55 AM MDT 6 Comments
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Your mileage may vary - mine did.

Posted by Kevin on July 17, 2003 at 03:46 PM MDT #

You're lucky - I tried to get in Minnesota, but it turned out we needed a new cable line installed. That took a month and a half, including the usual "we'll do it one Wednesday", then no one showed up, they actually cancelled my order several times...anyways, I have it now, I got the Wireless-G router from Linksys, and now I'm running my webserver over my cable modem connection. :-)

Posted by Paul Rivers on July 17, 2003 at 04:53 PM MDT #

Guess you're not moving to FL any time soon then?

Posted by Lance on July 17, 2003 at 08:09 PM MDT #

First off....Regular visitor to raibledesigns.com......cool site.....i like to hear what you have to say. Anyways....on to the question.

Are you hosting RaibleDesigns.com yourself? I'm asking because i have Comcast as well and all they offer me are dynamic IPs. So i'm curious as to how you would match up raibledesigns.com to a dynamic ip provided by comcast......The only way that i can think of hosting your own site with comcast and dealing with the dynamic ip problem is to use a service like dyndns.org......where you would run a little service on the web server that tells dyndns.org your current ip....... Russ

Posted by Russell Pitre on July 28, 2003 at 03:39 PM MDT #

Russ,

I'm not hosting this site myself - I'm hosting it at KGB Internet, which I highly recommend. However, I <strong>am</strong> interested in setting up a webserver with my new Comcast service. After setting up all my routers, firewalls, etc. last night, I tried to get to my IP, but no go - so I probably have to configure some stuff to make it happen. Then, dyndns.org (or another service) is probably the best bet to get your DHCP assigned IP to be static. You also might try setting the DHCP address as a static address and see how long that works for. My last ISP had DHCP, but it never changed, so it was really like having a static IP.

Posted by Matt Raible on July 28, 2003 at 04:20 PM MDT #

Personally I run a Linux Apache, Bind server for my domains on my Comcast Internet. I simply setup manually the Domain Name to go to the ip. Yes Comcast is Dynamic internet, however I have yet to lose the IP in 7 months.

Posted by Richie Carnes on September 29, 2003 at 06:00 PM MDT #

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