Im sorry mario the princess is in another castle - the state of US broadband

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11-07-2010, 02:57 PM
W2NAP

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Originally Posted by PA5COR

This will do for a few euro's a month ;) no restrictions or limits on how much we download.

thats getting to be the problem here, they are silently slapping restrictions on us. Use more then 250GB bandwith, consider your account gone.

Use a P2P (legal/illegal dont matter) get your account throttled.

Here with comcrap, something wrong with the service, they may get around to it 2 or 3 weeks later. if your privileged enough to have a job, you may end up with missing 4 or 5 days of work due to them saying they will be here one day, and not showing up. again and again.
11-07-2010, 03:33 PM
kf0rt

I'm going to call Comcast and drop back down to 20Mb service. They called me with a 6 month "deal" - 25Mbps instead of 20 and 'free' Skinemax for $5/mo. Haven't seen anything worth watching on Cinemax and can't really tell the difference in speed. And on top of that, my bill went up $15.

Overall, I've been pretty pleased with Comcast here, outside of it being expensive. Have their HDTV feed and phone, too and it runs $185/mo, before the not-so-special special.
11-07-2010, 03:42 PM
kc7jty

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Originally Posted by kf0rt

it runs $185/mo

Jesus! That's my entire month's bills minus heat in winter.
11-07-2010, 03:52 PM
kf0rt

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Originally Posted by kc7jty

Jesus! That's my entire month's bills minus heat in winter.

Yeah... For that $185, we get fast Internet, cable TV (with HD and one DVR) and VOIP phone service with all the bells and LD is free. Does seem expensive -- I think the Internet and phone are about $50 apiece and the rest is TV.

BUT, back in the dial-up days, I was paying $40/mo for the house phone, another $35/mo for a dedicated modem line and $25/mo for a dial-up ISP. Same price for the phone and Internet stuff, but this is a lot better.
11-07-2010, 03:56 PM
W4GPL

I'm on Comcast's DOCSIS 3.0 trial, so far I love it.. but like Rob, I also pay thru the nose.
11-07-2010, 04:33 PM
kf0rt

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Originally Posted by W4GPL

I'm on Comcast's DOCSIS 3.0 trial, so far I love it.. but like Rob, I also pay thru the nose.

How'd you get in on that?
11-07-2010, 04:52 PM
NQ6U

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Originally Posted by kf0rt

Overall, I've been pretty pleased with Comcast here, outside of it being expensive. Have their HDTV feed and phone, too and it runs $185/mo, before the not-so-special special.

Damn. For $185, they should at least throw in a blow job once a month.
11-07-2010, 05:55 PM
W2NAP

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Damn. For $185, they should at least throw in a blow job once a month.

lol, at least pay for a hooker for the night right
11-07-2010, 05:56 PM
W4GPL

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Originally Posted by kf0rt

How'd you get in on that?

Some guy came to my door and said they were wiring the place for DOCSIS 3.0 and giving out new modems to people who wanted to upgrade for $15/mo + fill out a monthly survey for the next 3 months. They redid every last wire, inside and out.
11-07-2010, 06:48 PM
W3WN

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Originally Posted by W2IBC

< snip >Here with comcrap, something wrong with the service, they may get around to it 2 or 3 weeks later. if your privileged enough to have a job, you may end up with missing 4 or 5 days of work due to them saying they will be here one day, and not showing up. again and again.

Comcrap? Not bad. Maybe that's why they've suddenly adopted the service name "Xfinity" around here.

They really gave themselves a black eye when they absorbed some of the old Adelphia franchises a few years back. I come home from work one Friday evening, there's an "authorized contractor" truck on the pole right in front of the house (looked like a fly-by-night operation too, but I digress). I ask the guy what he's doing, he tells me they're checking the wiring now that Comcast owns the Adelphia franchise for Mt. Lebanon.

Only I don't live in Mt. Lebanon, I live in Castle Shannon. Well, except for the last 10 feet of my back yard. Anyway, we're on DirecTV at the time, so I don't pay much attention.

3 hours later, my next door neighbor (she's in her late 70's) comes over and asks if I can help her husband. Seems they're cable suddenly went out, and he's giving himself a stroke dealing with support. Having a thick Eastern European accent from The Old Country doesn't help. I don't get much done except a promise that Support will look into the matter... 8 AM Monday morning.

Then we start hearing from some of the other neighbors.

Seems that Fly-By-Night Contractor didn't notice, when he crossed the borough line (or didn't care). [It's not like there's, say, a BIG sign or anything...] And since the line numbers on the poles in Castle Shannon matched the valid numbers he was supposed to have for Mt. Lebanon... he reported the entire neighborhood as cable thieves and had the service to 3 dozen homes shut off.

And they didn't want to do anything to fix THEIR contractor's mistake until Monday morning.

Fortunately for the neighborhood, I had an ace in the hole. Seems there's a ham working in Comcast tech support (on the broadband side, though... and that was out too). I made a phone call, he called a supervisor, and at 11:30 that night, there was a real Comcast truck in front of the house.

Nobody ever officially apologized for the little error... imagine that.

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