Dish vs Comcast on-demand?

[Irving]

Not sure what you mean by that blanket statement regarding a brand. I have a Linksys Router at home and it in no way is the bottleneck in my network.

My friend was telling me that he was paying for the 100Mb down speed from Comcast, but was being capped at something around half that. He switched from his Linksys router to something else and received his full download speed. I was having a problem with my Linksys while he was in town (3Mb down and 9Mb up) and switched it for the D-link I had lying around and immediately saw 30Mb down and 9Mb up. For the record, I had been having problems with my Linksys for I'd say the past 4 years or so, but never realized it was the problem.

[hurley842002]

The Hopper has a monthly fee, as do the Joeys.

Must have been what we were paying for.

[fitz19d]

Outrageous cost.

Have had some outages on rare occasion. Struggling more with roomates router I probably need to replace. I let him handle stuff at our new location. I need to probably jump in and do it myself since he still refers to internet as "wifi" and doesn't understand a lot of these things. (He and I are still fighting over him thinking a sump pump in the house would be "2watts"."....

[Ridge]

him thinking a sump pump in the house would be "2watts"."....

[trlcavscout]

Outrageous cost.

Have had some outages on rare occasion. Struggling more with roomates router I probably need to replace. I let him handle stuff at our new location. I need to probably jump in and do it myself since he still refers to internet as "wifi" and doesn't understand a lot of these things. (He and I are still fighting over him thinking a sump pump in the house would be "2watts"."....

I contracted to them for a couple years when they first launched internet service in most of the areas. As a company as far as management and funding they were a joke and I was always amazed when their stuff worked. But amazingly their internet has become pretty fast and reliable. They have a few dedicated technicians! Upgrading the system every couple years to keep up with demands and wants costs a lot of money.

[Gman]

I don't know if you noticed, but Belkin bought Linksys from Cisco. As much as I hate Cisco's software, their gear powers much of the networking world. Linksys has made some really good products in my experience, your mileage may vary.

[ben4372]

I don't know if you noticed, but Belkin bought Linksys from Cisco. As much as I hate Cisco's software, their gear powers much of the networking world. Linksys has made some really good products in my experience, your mileage may vary.

You aint lying Cisco is all over the backbone of the internet.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Ask Comcast about their 20 hours of dvr space limited to one room. It's about the hawwwwwpah with joeys.

[trlcavscout]

Ask Comcast about their 20 hours of dvr space limited to one room. It's about the hawwwwwpah with joeys.

If you ask for a 10yr old DVR that is true.


"Watch Commercial-Free TV.
Hate commercials? DISH created commercial-free TV so you can save an hour each night*! Now you can instantly skip commercials in recorded primetime TV. Only DISH gives you ad-free TV with the Hopper®.
Feature must be enabled by customer and is subject to availability. Only available with playback of select shows.
Record up to 6 Channels at Once.
Record up to six live channels at once during primetime, including your 4 local networks and 2 channels of your choosing, and stream four recorded programs to different TVs simultaneously. That means you can watch more and miss less of your favorite programs"


Lots of fine print, so 4 recordings during primetime for certain shows on certain channels? But hey you can record 2 shows of your choosing. Check their site for more fine print.

[BigDee]

Linksys/Cisco is crap as a general rule of thumb and cause a lot of problems. So maybe their are a few good ones but again as a rule of thumb.

You do realize that over 80% of the Internet is powered by Cisco right?

I work for one of the largest Telco's in the world and Cisco is the only gear we use for routers and switches. Considering our network provides 99.999% reliability I'd say the Cisco gear does a pretty good job.