[Ma-linux] comcast is that bad?

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/13/2012 03:47 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> I'm setting up a web server on a comcast business connection I have in
> Maryland. I haven't been using this internet connection much until the
> last couple of days as I've been bringing my web site online. As I've
> been testing my new web site, I've come to realize that I'm loosing
> connection to my web server. It's now happened twice in the past two
> days which is really bad! I have a second internet connection which is
> run by Verizon and that seems to be much better. Is Comcast a bad
> internet provider or am I having bad luck in my neighborhood? What other
> viable options are there for internet providers besides Comacast and
> Verizon in Maryland? (I'm located in the greater DC metropolitan area.)

What do you mean by 'losing connection'? do your TCP connections like 
e.g. SSH hang, or is it rather that you can't connect at all to your 
website at times?

If it's the former, some ISPs do connection timeouts at the perimeter as 
a security measure. Annoying as heck---my work does that and as a result 
I have lost work many times over.