I ditched Comcast Braodband for DSL a year ago. When it works, it’s faster than DSL, but their modem is very glitchy and they don’t support any wireless gear you may attach unless you pay them an extra $50 a month.
I also had their local phone service which worked amazingly well, considering my internet boradband would be down often but I never noticed the phones being out.
Now I just use them for their core competencies, Comedy Central. |
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God, and they just took over the local internet/cable provider...
I’m not looking forward to this... |
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I had time warner for awhile, and then Comcast took over for them. It was alright at first, a few more channels, a few bucks cheaper, but then my internet started degrading. I’d lose 25-50% of my packets, and couldn’t even load a lot of web pages like youtube, facebook, ect. I couldn’t even get a connection if I plugged my laptops directly to the modem, sans router. They came out to take a look and told me there was no problem.
So I switched to At&t Uverse. It’s cheaper, with a lot more channels (all of them in fact) and I’ve been happy so far. |
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Aside from digging out the ol’ 2400 baud modem from the closet, I have no options for Internet service other than Comcast. You can only imagine how excited I am about that.
I did dump them for TV, though, and DirecTV has been great to me (more channels + DVR service for the same price I was paying Comcast).
I suppose you’ve probably seen their ads trying to get you to switch to them for phone service too. I assume this is so that when they go down, you can’t call them to complain. |
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When the wife and I bought our house last year we switched from Comcast cable and internet to Verizon DSL and DirecTV. Wouldn’t go back. Better service and it’s cheaper to boot. |
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I’ve had Comcast internet for years, and Customer Service is a pain. On the other hand, we rarely ever have to use it (maybe 5 times in 10 years). They will eventually get the problem solved, but you’ve got to be persistant. |
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Perhaps this will help:
AT&T Yahoo High speed internet "pro" —> total bill 29.32$/month. It is "naked" DSL, which means I don’t even have to have an active phone line account. Admittedly the bill is confusing: The service is billed as 55$/month but discounted 26$/month. I’ve had DSL for 9 months with zero problems or interruptions. The DSL modem even has built-in wireless, but you can piggyback your own router as well.
Here is the article I originally learned about it in: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9822662-46.html
Know what else is satisfying about it? Looking at the bottom of the bill and seeing this:Taxes:
Federal .00
State and local .00
Total taxes .00 Though I should note there is a 33 cent sales tax. |
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ck: But what’s your bandwidth? I’m a xbox 360 gamer, and I need me my bandwidth... |
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per CNET: 1231.5 kbps...probly not what a gamer would desire. However, there is the "elite" level for 8 bucks extra I think. I’d heard of people pushing the limit with CSRs if they’re not getting fully advertised bandwidth as well. |
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Not being a gamer, and not being in the habit of downloading music (do you realize how many MBs it would require to download Matthaus Passion?), I have stuck to dial up; it serves my purpose, and when I do have a large file to download, I go to the local library, download it there, copy it to a CD and transfer to my computer that way.
But if I ever upgrade, it will be to AT&T (the only alternative in my area). I decided that after Hurricane Wilma, because of the downtimes:
Phone service (then Southern Bell, now AT&T)—never out, even at the height of the storm
Electric service (FPL)—five days without power
Cable (Comcast)—two weeks before service was restored, and frequent interruptions in the weeks after.
If I had Comcast for broadband then, I would have had to gone without it for over a week after being able to use my computer again.
That, and the really bad service Comcast gives for CATV—who would choose Comcast
(And then there’s the coworker who had gotten Comcast early on, was told the tech would show up on a specific day, and never heard from anyone all day long, and never given an explanation—twice in a row. Third time, the tech did show up.) |
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The problem I have is that my home line is through vonage, which uses my cable-based broadband...
Need to look into Yahoo, though, and since I have a perfectly useful cellphone, just drop Vonage.
And I need to look into TiVo. WANT that DVR and those higher cable channels upstairs in my room and my HDTV. MUST have my BBC America... |
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Even without these comments, I often wonder about how many people actually swallow the kook-aid in the "let us provide ALL your services, phone, TV and internet" ads.
Eggs and baskets and all that. |
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No question about it, Comcast is the antichrist.
We went to Verizon for everything earlier this month and don’t intend to look back. Today I took up the cable that Comcast left laying on top of the ground since last summer. |
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I must be the only Comcast customer in the US who is not unhappy with them (knock on wood). I got Comcast in mid 2001 and had only a single real problem. Shortly after I got the service there was an upgrade and they mailed me a CD to upgrade and it got shoved in my mailbox and was broken. When I called, I finally found a tech who admitted he could shove the software directly onto my harddrive, but I’d have to configure it. It took me a couple of tries to get it working, but it’s been fine ever since. It seemed to run slow, so I finally got them to send a tech out and it turned out I had a really weak signal just at the outside junction box. A new box fixed that. I’m running at full-speed now (peaks at around 35MB). I also run wireless by connecting to an old server from the incoming Comcast cable then running a cable to my D-Link. I run my AT&T callvantage wireless through the D-Link as well. The phone or/wireless goes down about once every 6 months and needs to be re-booted. That’s been it for the past 6 or so years. |
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I have everything with verizon and so far it’s been great. Way better than either Comcast or Charter cable. |
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Thank your free market. |
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