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@home to comcast transition thread?

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de8212

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I received an email describing how to change your IP settings from a static to a DHCP setting to ensure a smooth transition. In my router settings, I am already set up as dynamic. Also it states to Obtain ip Address automatically as well as DNS server address automatically. I have that done as well.

For anyone that has gone through this, is there anything else that could cause problems during the transistion? Any other settings I need to check that comcast did not mention?
BTW I have an SMC barricade router in case that matters.

tia

de
 


<< For anyone that has gone through this, is there anything else that could cause problems during the transistion? Any other settings I need to check that comcast did not mention? >>






<< Comcast sucks >>




Boy that was really helpful.

de8212-

I hope that is all that is needed. I have the same router and ip settings. The change is set for 1/12 here so I guess I'll know soon.
 


<< I hope that is all that is needed. I have the same router and ip settings. The change is set for 1/12 here so I guess I'll know soon. >>



That's what I thought also. The 12th is also the date for mine to change or whatever. just wanted to try and be ahead of the game.
de
 
Setting my Network settings to DHCp did not work when I first received the notification 5 days ago. I was told to wait till today, the transition date, and it is working fine. No other settings are needed. Remeber to reboot if you change your settings.
 
My @home account (provided by Comcast to my house) was running at 4+ Mbps down and 1.2+ Mbps up consistently since last summer. I own a SB4100 modem. This morning the connection dropped and I had to set my wireless barricade to DHCP. The ip address changed from a 24.x.x.x to a 68.x.x.x. I copied all of the other items obtained from the DHCP server (subnet mask and gateway) and plugged them into the router manually. If the network was like in the past, I'll have the same IP for years!

The biggest change: speed is much slower. It's hard to get much over 1.2 Mbps DOWN and about 120 kbps UP now. 🙁 Yesterday my UPSTREAM was every bit as fast as my DOWNSTREAM is tonight. The config file pushed to the modem now has the word silver in it so it appears that CC is gearing up for tiered service.

Surfing the web is no different, but if I download a large file, instead of seeing the typical ~500 KB/S I'm lucky to see 150 KB/S sustained. If I upload something surfing slows to about V90 speed. You can no longer multi task with the connection. Something else I've noticed. The symbol rate is unchanged both in the upstream and downstream paths, but the downstream grabs in "bursts" of 4 Mbps. You can see it with a program called Net Per Sec. It's screwed up IMO, but at the same time it's a smart trick because the overall bandwidth is about a quarter of what it was (on the download side) but most users will never see it because typical surfing is still blazing fast.

If one is lucky enough to know someone at the MSO 🙂, getting a custom CFG file on their account means they pretty much have the fast lane all to themselves. 🙂

Summary: CC says your speed remains unchanged. Reality: It's BS, but the majority of the subscribers that surf the net would never know this. :|

Cheers!
 
My experience was similar to Sharkeeper's, although we were switched from @home to ATTBI. Because I was already set up with a dynamic address, I never noticed any outage. I did have to change my e-mail addresses; I also decided to run a clean-up executable they provided which caused some minor but annoying side-effects. Lots of people are complaining about the caps on uploads and downloads, but hasn't impacted me much. Good luck!
 
Reiteration #532: This really sucks!

Still with @Home and I think we are getting transitioned in February. If the speeds go down to 1200/120, I certainly don't want to pay $45/month anymore. That's ridiculous. If I wanted the potential "gold" tier, what are they going to charge? $70/month? I'll pay that if upsteam is at least 640 and I can run a server without complaints.

I am very used to d/l's at 350-400kb/sec and more importantly, uploads at 125-150Kb/sec. 128 upstream cap is insane. If I want to copy a 500Kb file to my web hoster, I'd have to wait 30 secs then. This is broadband, dammit! :|

Technology is supposed to improve with time, not backpedal. What's going to happen to @Home's network? I've been on it for about 2 years and it's been the best thing since sliced bread.

Farewell, @Home. Better to have loved and lost than never have loved.
 
Just a note to potential comcast customers, and some of you might know this already-
Some comcast locations will not be allowing a shared network home very soon.
At least not without paying for multiple ip addresses.
They are going to use the mac address of the nic to determine if you are sharing bandwidth.

Of course the way around this is to spoof your mac address in your router.
But a lot of people might not realize this.

 
I had Comcast@home before the transition and my speeds were always capped. In the 2 years I have had it, Ive never gotten over 1500 down and 116 up. Now my speed is consistently around 1100kbps down.
 
Yeah, my local server is using your mac address to make sure you aren't using a router. I had to clone my mac address into my router before i could get it to work. What a pain, took me 4 hours after a long day of school then work to finally figure out why the hell my router wasn't working.

As for bitching about speeds, my up remained unchanged, but its been capped at 128kbps for about 6 months 😛. My down is a bit slower, but not noticeable for almost everything. Still there is no reason to bitch, I'd rather have comcast than no cable at all. Its still a brand new network, maybe they'll change their bandwidth settings after its up and more reliable.
 
Host name: blank

Domain Name: trntn1.nj.comcast.net

Wan IP: automatic
DNS Server: Automatic
Wan Mac address: Factory Default

Those are my settings as you go thru setup. i got 1.1 mbps download time on speed tests. so very adequate.


Above are the changes i made to my netgear RT314 Router. it works fine for me. i'm gettin 1.1 mb/s dl and about 256k uploads. overall nothing to complain about. if you try it and it doesn't work try again a few days later. i initially tried it when they told me they had made the change but apparently the servers weren't ready here. few days later no problems.

remember the first number in ur IP address will change. mine changed from 28.x.x.x to 68.x.x.x

hope this helps.
 
What are the settings for email? I had the following:
Incoming Pop server: mail.comcast.net
(outgoing) SMTP: smtp.comcast.net

Are these correct? I do not have any email

 
I don't think a lot of you know just how GOOD you've had it and are now spoiled by what you have had in the past.

Let's start with the T1 I pay for at work. It's $1,000 per month and for that I get 1.536kbs up and down.... for A THOUSAND PER MONTH!

Now, let's look at what I have at home. I've got a DSL line, 1.5Mbs up / 384kbs down. I've got three static IP's with it... I pay $94 per month!

One of you has already said that you would be unwilling to pay HALF of that price for close to the same download speed! You guys need perspective!

A good friend of mine rolled out the first broadband available in New Mexico last year. They have 384/128 for $39 per month, and the people there who have it think it's GREAT because previous to this, they could only get 33.6 on an analogue modem. I don't think that Comcast is screwing anyone, but all over the country they are starting to restructure things to be more in line with the norm.

As for me... I'm on a Comcast 60 day free trial. Supposedly the 60 days doesn't start until I have first used their line for data transfer... I haven't even run the coax yet even though I've had their "kit" in my house for about 50 days now. Anyway, for about $50 per month they are supposed to be giving me 10 Mb/s down and 128kb/s up (kind of lopsided, huh?). I've got friends in the area who have seen downloads in the 600-800kbs range, but I know as more people get online with it, those speeds will go down. I called Comcast about that and they said that since in my area they have to compete with 1.5 Mb/s DSL, what they are doing is opening a 10 Mb/s pipe and hoping that even when everyone is on it, people will still generally be able to attain at least 1.5 Mb/s speeds.

I'm not sure if I'm even going to bother hooking it up though. I like having the 384kb/s up stream for my server..... If I do hook it up, I'll post and let y'all know what my experiences are. BTW, I'm in the Maryland area, just outside of Washington DC.

Joe
 


<< Let's start with the T1 I pay for at work. It's $1,000 per month and for that I get 1.536kbs up and down.... for A THOUSAND PER MONTH! >>



Yes and I've worked for many hours at our co-lo which has redundant T-1 feeds and a frac (burstable) T-3. I've seen pretty fast download speeds off the T-3 in excess of 3MB/S but it's pretty rare. The speed is all over the place and most of the time the uploads test faster consistently! Surfing the web on my CC $40 per month account is just as snappy as the co-lo where the bill averages $7k per month. 🙂

I could get a T-1 for $255 plus about $335 for local loop at my house if I wanted. Problem is I would host at least 20 sites on it via a cobalt raq or something similar and during the busy part of the day I'm sure my T-1 would fluctuate more than my cheap-o cable!

If people don't like capped speeds, then by all means go back to dialup! 😛 The way most users are online they will need another phone line unless they plan to use a wireless phone. That alone will cost more than half of what you're paying for cable!

Problem is the old @home network was poorly managed and a lot of people (myself included) were getting far more bandwidth (both ways!) than advertised. Comcast had been advertising 1500/128 for at least the last two years that I'm aware of. When I purchased my own modem last summer (SB4100) my uploads were 1200 Kbps *consistently*. My downloads were also very frequently in the 4500+ Kbps range. Being spoiled like that is a bad thing. A lot of people are going to have to get used to it.

Cheers!
 
I received an email describing how to change your IP settings from a static to a DHCP setting to ensure a smooth transition. In my router settings, I am already set up as dynamic. Also it states to Obtain ip Address automatically as well as DNS server address automatically. I have that done as well.

It depends on your local server settings. Comcast uses DOCSIS modems. Some map your NIC MAC address; some map modem MAC address. Just reboot your computer after transfer to see if it works. If not, map your NIC MAC to router. Reboot router. Then it should work.
 
Some of you are very lucky. Others, listen to what you may have to look forward to in the coming weeks. I was migrated to Comcast from Mediaone Dec. 29. My download speed went from 1.5mbps to 1.5KBps. That's right, a mere 1% of what it was. And it stayed that way day after day after day. Forty minutes to download an 8.6MB file. UGH! After changing my rwin and MTU values in the registy to optimal setting for Dialup, that download rate shot up to 3.7KBps. Wow! That's broadband. However, it appears late Last night they finally got their sh*t together and am back up to normal speeds.
According to comcast(whose support is nearly non-existant since their support people have no clue about anything to do with the transition), they are transitioning to a new network and they are encountering oodles of bugs. I told them bugs are supposed to be worked out before transitioning. Seems likely, that new network, when they began the transition, was not up to handling the number of customers that were put on it, and the bugs just amplified it.
 


<< Problem is the old @home network was poorly managed and a lot of people (myself included) were getting far more bandwidth (both ways!) than advertised. >>


Sometimes I'll flip on WinMX in the morning, go out during the day, come back in the evening and find out that my PC served out 3-4GB of data. There had to have been months where my PC transferred 50+ GB upstream. I didn't think anything of it until I started to look into web hosting and found out that 10GB a month is considered a pretty hefty amount. So here a cheap home connection, using technology that was installed over a decade ago, could act like the network pipe to an enterprise data center! Unbelievable.
 
We've been advertised 1.5 down and 128k up from the begining.. i was getting 1.5/1.2 up until i left for college.. sometime in 3 months, they capped the upstream to what it was suppose to be.. and weekends/nights started to get slower.

 
Just got switched @Home-->Comcast.
Before and After speeds exactly on par with sharkeeper down to the spikes with netpersec. I feel like I just took a tremendous leap backwards🙁
 
My email said to do the transition, I had to download something. Is this necessary? I dont want any of their software.
 
people NEED! to quit b*tching about there speeds, if its within 10% of the speed that CC says(1.5/128kbps) then your ok. BUT if your getting dial-up speed, then go ahead and b*tch.

nothing is perfect in the world, DEAL WITH IT!!!
 
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