I have had Comcast for over 10 years and I am a triple play subscriber. I really like Comcast and have no horror stories in my Comcast past. That said - I too recently started to have strange but on further analysis just slow email response. Tonight I did a simple test that I think clearly shows a problem at Comcast. You can try this yourself. In Windows - go to the CMD prompt and enter: ping comcast.net and ping comcast.com In response to these pings you should see the name resolved to an ip address and then several ping responses. The problem is the comcast.net ping times out while the comcast.com ping goes right through> these clearly demonstrates a problem at the comcast.net server. From CMD prompt window: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Dad>ping comcast.net Pinging comcast.net [76.96.39.102] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 76.96.39.102: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), C:\Users\Dad>ping comcast.com Pinging comcast.com [69.241.45.4] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 69.241.45.4: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=242 Reply from 69.241.45.4: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=242 Reply from 69.241.45.4: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=242 Reply from 69.241.45.4: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=242 Ping statistics for 69.241.45.4: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 36ms, Average = 35ms
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