[ale] recommended personal DSL provider for Alpharetta ?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 18:37 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:51:51AM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > I don't currently have cable.
> 
> > What advantages, if any, would cable offer over DSL; OR vice-versa   ?
> I have Comcast cable modem access and it's unreliable and slow.  I've
> never seen anywhere near their "Up to" claimed bandwidth because their
> upstream bandwidth is pathetic.
> 
> If I do a sustained download, say a 100 MB file, access will drop every
> minute or two for some number of seconds.

Bob, are you blocking ICMP?  I've seen with my cable modem that if I
block ICMP it breaks Path-MTU producing similar scenarios to what you
describe.

-Jim P.