 Review by halfband 
UPDATED: 2 years ago
member for 7.4 years, 1922 visits, last login: 10 days ago
 Huntsville,Madison,AL
 $43 per month
 about 7 days
 "Reliable, Fast and gets faster, They have held the price for years now."
 "Requires TV package for best rate, not enough upstream."
 "Does what it is supposed to do."
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Nov 2007
Comcast HSI is rock solid now. Speeds are now 6Meg/384K. With power-boost you often see even better numbers. Email is now very reliable as is service up time. If you like ISP portal content theirs is pretty good. No real complaints. Could use a some upload speed.
// 5 year old review
Order and install was pretty smooth. The installers were contractors , showed up on time. They had about 3 years experience a piece. Knew what they were doing and by the time they left I had a good connection.
In the past 6 months comcast has raised the download speed slightly to 1800, doubled the upload speed to 256K, and improved email reliability from poor to OK. They also bumped the price up $3 to the current $43.
Speeds are about normal for 1800/256 connection. 256K upload is OK, and much better than the previous 128K. Downstream is reliable and quick enough for general use, running about 1200-1700 most of the time, but if you are an industrial strength user or gamer you may need to look at a higher service tier or DSL. Comcast has some really odd caps on email, 2.5 meg size limit and limits on number of recipients and number of emails sent in a minute. These are intended to prevent spammers from using Comcast accounts, but who ever heard of a 2.5 meg spam message.
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