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eatmorchikin6464
06-22-2006, 01:06 AM
Take a look at this, man I'd be pretty pissed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7b5gzqU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etecheblog%2Ecom%2Findex%2E php%2Ftech%2Dgadget%2Fcomcast%2Dwoes
Blaze Zero-Three
06-22-2006, 01:09 AM
Comcast Support was pretty nice to me, and they even boosted my internet speed.
Justin
06-22-2006, 01:25 AM
That's awesome.
eatmorchikin6464
06-22-2006, 01:43 AM
Well it's good that he caught the gay and will hopefully get justice. I don't think it's awesome the fact that the guy fell asleep at his house and such.
Vagrant
06-22-2006, 02:25 AM
He said the comcast dude waited an hour on hold. Doesn't sound to me like it's the technician at fault for not sleeping last night.
ripht|CoC
06-22-2006, 02:36 AM
Well it's good that he caught the gay and will hopefully get justice. I don't think it's awesome the fact that the guy fell asleep at his house and such.

You don't?

xD It doesn't get much more awesome than that.
Tanktunker
06-22-2006, 02:45 AM
Heh heh heh.
Anyway, I don't think it's the technician to blame, he fell asleep because the company was too cheap to hire some extra tech/customer support people, so he had to wait on hold for an hour.
Karl
06-22-2006, 10:10 AM
As long as I'm not paying by how long this guy stays at my place, I wouldn't be too angry. I'd still wan't my stuff fixed, though.

We might be switching to Verizon. They just installed fiber-optic cables all over our neighborhood.
Mr.Man
06-22-2006, 10:56 AM
I would never stay with a company that put me through that. I'd probably spray that guy with the hose or something.
I can't wait to see what happens when Comcast gets a hold of this video.
eatmorchikin6464
06-22-2006, 11:31 AM
I have Bellsouth High Speed Internet and Dish Network Satellite TV.
ehntoo
06-22-2006, 01:05 PM
Comcast sounds too much like Charter for my liking.

Freaking insane prices, incompetent tech support, crappy service...

Ugh.

But my parents won't switch to DSL. or Satellite. So i'm stuck.
Justin
06-22-2006, 01:31 PM
Cable's faster than DSL or sattilite, though, so I'm all right with a little incompetence.
Karl
06-22-2006, 01:33 PM
Tru dat. Anyone know if Verizon's fiber-optics are gonna be faster or at least competitive with Comcast's cable?
ehntoo
06-22-2006, 01:38 PM
Tru dat. Anyone know if Verizon's fiber-optics are gonna be faster or at least competitive with Comcast's cable?
It's fibre optic, mate. The speeds are at least 10x faster.

Justin, I've got a 3mbit down, 256k up line for my cable. I can get a 3mbit/384k line from SBC. For cheaper, even. No competition.
eatmorchikin6464
06-22-2006, 01:38 PM
Cable's faster than DSL or sattilite, though, so I'm all right with a little incompetence.

My DSL is pretty much as fast as cable, what speeds do you get?
Justin
06-22-2006, 01:38 PM
Even though it's fibre-optic to your signal box, it's still regular old RJ11 from there to your modem. Until they replace the phone lines in your house with FiOp, it's not getting any faster.
Woolfenstien
06-22-2006, 01:39 PM
10mbps is the max we can get down the line here, but we pay for 2mbps.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39207115,00.htm
^24mbps in london.
Justin
06-22-2006, 01:40 PM
I'm not sure what my cable line is rated at, but I get over 10 MB/s download speeds pretty routinely from decent servers
eatmorchikin6464
06-22-2006, 01:41 PM
How about on Myspeed? I'm equal with n2 with my DSL.
ehntoo
06-22-2006, 01:43 PM
I'm not sure what my cable line is rated at, but I get over 10 MB/s download speeds pretty routinely from decent servers
Are you sure your B's are correct? MB and Mb is a huge difference. 8Mb is roughly equal to 1MB.

I didn't think cable could even go faster than 8Mbit.
Even though it's fibre-optic to your signal box, it's still regular old RJ11 from there to your modem. Until they replace the phone lines in your house with FiOp, it's not getting any faster.
They run Cat5e from the street to your house. That's a 100Mbit connection.
Justin
06-22-2006, 01:43 PM
It clocks in at 11MbPS down, just under 1MBPS up.
Vagrant
06-22-2006, 01:43 PM
Justin, I've got a 3mbit down, 256k up line for my cable. I can get a 3mbit/384k line from SBC. For cheaper, even. No competition.

SBC service I had though is extremely lousy -- It's almost invariably going down every one or two weeks.
ehntoo
06-22-2006, 01:48 PM
SBC service I had though is extremely lousy -- It's almost invariably going down every one or two weeks.
That all depends on the quality of your phone lines. When we had dialup, we were getting 56k steadily, which is damned good. With AOL, even.