Now Peering with Comcast

**VOIPoTim** · 12-06-2008 03:45 PM

For any Comcast users here, I have good news.

Our datacenter, The Planet, has added a new 10Gbps peering link to Comcast.

This means that if you use Comcast, your connection will go straight from the Comcast network into the datacenter instead of being routed out through an ISP along the way.

This is live and up and running now. The routing may be enhanced a little to shave a few Comcast hops off soon, but so far it seems to be pretty good as is.

**usa2k** · 12-06-2008 05:32 PM

Ironically, I thought Comcast was always criticized for hindering 3rd party VoIP?

**VOIPoTim** · 12-06-2008 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by usa2k

Ironically, I thought Comcast was always criticized for hindering 3rd party VoIP?

Yeah, they're usually the number 1 target. Lately they've been fine.

**Montano** · 12-06-2008 06:35 PM

I have Comcast

**chpalmer** · 12-06-2008 06:52 PM

Wish I did...

Especially now with this information...

My provider is a little behind the times.

**VOIPoTim** · 12-06-2008 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by Montano

I have Comcast

At home I have Comcast and AT&T DSL. I like a variety to test and kinda rotate between them.

Hopefully soon I'll have U-Verse. The DSL is 6 Megs and I actually have U-Verse boxes in a closet but no U-Verse availability. I've been questioning why such a big deal was made about everything being prewired for U-Verse when a year later, it's still not available.

I still prefer the 200Mbps Time Warner connection at the office.

**chpalmer** · 12-06-2008 07:08 PM

I still prefer the 200Mbps Time Warner connection at the office.

i got to play with one of those connections once...

In My Dreams!

How many hops is your average for getting off Comcasts network?

We lost 4 when out ISP bought the system from Charter...

**VOIPoTim** · 12-06-2008 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by chpalmer

How many hops is your average for getting off Comcasts network?

For me it's in the DC on the 5th hop. So 4 on Comcast.

**VOIPoTim** · 12-06-2008 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by chpalmer

i got to play with one of those connections once...

Technically it's a Gig-E with fiber coming directly in. I'm not hardcore technical but my understanding is that we can go up to 1,000Mbps within hours on it.

Since it's just for office customers, there was no need to go all out and pay for that much BW right now. 200 Mbps is plenty

**burris** · 12-06-2008 07:10 PM

I had Comcast for years and for the most part they were ok. Quite a few outages though and never an honest answer. I have some friends in their local operations group, so I was able to find out what was going on, besides the obvious overloaded nodes.

Since my VOIP is my landline and since we have storms and hurricanes in the Miami area, when ATT finally offered naked DSL(dry loop), I chose to change. ATT has a far better track record of staying alive during these storms, and with my bunch of UPSs, I keep my necessary boxes alive when the power goes out.

Although I was getting twice the speed at less money with Comcast, I tend to think that the VOIP works better with DSL.

Perhaps Tim's peering with them would have blurred that difference, but I feel more comfortable with the chance of DSL staying up during these outages.