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

[kf0rt]

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

I thought that was part of the Cinemax (Skin-e-max) deal, but it sure hasn't worked out that way.

[kf0rt]

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.

Kewl. I need to move to your neighborhood. We only seem to get the stuff after it's tested.

[kc7jty]

The big rip here is water and SEWER, comes to $68/mo for both.
We pump all the town's sue-ahge 7 miles to the next town, let them take care of it

[W4GPL]

Kewl. I need to move to your neighborhood. We only seem to get the stuff after it's tested.

I don't believe we're all that far apart, but I think they started with the apartment complexes because they can get a bigger sampling -- I don't know that for certain, but it'd makes sense. I know the guy next door in a house wasn't offered it.. and trust me, he tells me every day. :P

Since they rewired everything, the switched DTV is much faster in terms of response time for ondemand stuff & even just flipping from channel to channel. I'm not going to say Comcast is the great, but compared to the last cable company I had.. they're the best thing since sliced bread.

[W2NAP]

funny you say that. we used to have Insight, never had a problem with them when comcast got them and took over this area. its been nothing but hell

[W4GPL]

After giving a bit of praise to my cable provider in this thread, I may have to retract it.

I ordered a digital box in the second bed room (expecting a house guest) and this evening a cable contractor came out to install it. He said he couldn't install a 3rd jack in the bedroom because of "policy regarding apartments", so I said "fine, run a cable around the base board and make sure it's secure.." -- While I was making dinner he completed his installation...



When I objected, he said "it's the best I can do, we can only make the cable a certain length." I told him it was unacceptable and in his lame ass broken English he tried to apologize. At that point, I was yelling and kicked his lazy friggin ass out of my apartment.

What the f' happened to craftsmanship and pride in one's work?

[W4GPL]

And I'm so annoyed, I'm willing display my pathetic Mexican and Korean made guitars. ;)

[n2ize]

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.

happened to a friend of mine, of so he says. he used a P2P client to download Linux and they throttled back his speed because he was downloading "illegal software"... Linux is "illegal" ?? Coulda fooled me.

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.

I use Verizon. We are fortunate to have FiOS in our area. Every now and then my parents get letters and/or visits from the cable company
. The look at the side of the house and if the see an ONT they take down the address and target cable ads to that home. They are always sending reps to my parents house, or notices in the mail, urging them to drop FiOS and sign up for cable which they claim is faster and so much more reliable.. Huh ? more reliable than fibre optics right to the house ? I always tell my folks to stick with FiOS and stay away from the cable companies. Thus far they have heeded my advice.

This is not to say cable is all bad, it does work, and several people I know are quite happy with it. But I think it's better to stick with fiber. I consider switching from fiber to cable a downgrade.

[W2NAP]

happened to a friend of mine, of so he says. he used a P2P client to download Linux and they throttled back his speed because he was downloading "illegal software"... Linux is "illegal" ?? Coulda fooled me.



I use Verizon. We are fortunate to have FiOS in our area. Every now and then my parents get letters and/or visits from the cable company
. The look at the side of the house and if the see an ONT they take down the address and target cable ads to that home. They are always sending reps to my parents house, or notices in the mail, urging them to drop FiOS and sign up for cable which they claim is faster and so much more reliable.. Huh ? more reliable than fibre optics right to the house ? I always tell my folks to stick with FiOS and stay away from the cable companies. Thus far they have heeded my advice.

This is not to say cable is all bad, it does work, and several people I know are quite happy with it. But I think it's better to stick with fiber. I consider switching from fiber to cable a downgrade.

Yea. Comshit dose throttle people (they claim they dont but they do) as not long ago i used a torrent to download debian dvd iso. 5 total. by the time i got to the 2nd dvd iso my speed had been killed to about 10KB/s for about 3 weeks after i couldnt download anything worth a shit due to the crappy speed.

[n2ize]

Yea. Comshit dose throttle people (they claim they dont but they do) as not long ago i used a torrent to download debian dvd iso. 5 total. by the time i got to the 2nd dvd iso my speed had been killed to about 10KB/s for about 3 weeks after i couldnt download anything worth a shit due to the crappy speed.

Well, all I can say is that if there are any alternatives available then dump Comcast.