Tuesday September 06, 2005 MCI Neighborhood Broadband Update
It's been well over month since I transferred my home phone number to the MCI Neighborhood Broadband VoIP offering. The sound quality of the call is pretty good (having Comcast Broadband service does help). I hadn't had issues placing or receiving calls. They even allow 10 digits dialing rather than force us to do 11 digits dialing.
A positive is that MCI did transfer my phone number as promised, when promised. It happened on my birthday to boot. This certainly beats Vonage's "6 months and still no transfer" story.
As a result, I am now free of the local loop tyranny brought to Denver by Qwest. My calls are going over the internet. And I'm saving well over $70 a month.
Maybe I can use that for gas money...
-- Fred
[posted with ecto]
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( Sep 06 2005, 11:30:10 AM MDT ) Permalink Comments [2]
Hi
I have broadband access through my dsl modem by BellSouth(6.5 megs download and about 400kb upload). Pretty fast. My wife's computer is on comcast which is a cable company and she is getting about 20 megs download and 1500kb upload which is very fast. I called up comcast and asked them how I could network my computer into my wifes computer and thereby get faster speed. They said there is two ways to do this:1. I could attach a wireless router(which I already have which is a D-Link Gaming Lounge router) to my wifes computer and purchase a wireless adapter for my computer 2. comcaast could take the filter off the cable connection going to my room and attach a second comcast modem(which I already have and attach it to the cable connector on the wall and I would be set. Unfortunately comcast does not remove filters anymore. By the way, my house is relatively new and set up for cable and internet in each room. Is there a way that I can remove this filter. Thanks
Posted by Howard Sheldon on August 14, 2007 at 10:16 AM MDT #
I didn't realized that people were still looking at this blog. I moved it to http://blog.fredjean.net/ a while ago.
I use a router and a wireless access point to share the internet connection. It is legal and allowed by Comcast. I would recommend buying your own router since Comcast will charge you an arm and a leg in rental fees. They are inexpensive and easy to install and configure. Make sure that you enable encryption so it is harder to crack.
Fred
Posted by Frederic Jean on August 14, 2007 at 10:59 AM MDT #