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Wednesday April 13, 2005 9:32 am

More Comcast Woes - How is EV-DO in Seattle?

Posted by Andru Edwards
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You know, I love broadband - that’s a given. However, I think I hate when broadband doesn’t work more than I love it when it does. How frustrating is it not being able to work because Comcast can’t seem to get their stuff together? They have had two DNS outages that were virtually nationwide twice over the past four days. This is inexcusable. Luckily, I heard that I could simply change the DNS setting in my router to 4.2.2.1 and everything was up and running again. If you are on Comcast, I suggest you do the same.

On another note - I have been intrigued by EV-DO after reading about it from people who I respect. Checking Verizon’s coverage page, it seems that Seattle hasn’t yet been given the EV-DO treatment - but I hear that it does work out here. Anyone in Seattle have an EV-DO device? I would love to tether the Audiovox VX6600 to my PowerBook on the go.




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  • Oscar
    By Oscar at 4/18/05

    I was on Comcast until recently and switched to Verizon DSL (which isn’t any better in terms of reliability), but I have friends that are still on Comcast that called when the recent DNS failures occurred. I moved them over to the 4.2.2.x dns servers which I have been using for almost 6 years without any failures. The ironic thing is that these are GTE core DNS servers. Isn’t GTE/Verizon the same thing? Funny stuff.

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  • Michael Ginsberg
    By Michael Ginsberg at 5/12/05

    Starting today (May 12, 2005), Seattle now has EVDO coverage.  More info here:

    http://www.evdoforums.com/about251.html

    http://www.EVDOinfo.com/The_News/Latest_News/EVDO_Now_Live_in_Seattle_20050512280/

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