 Review by Anubis Prime 
UPDATED: 140 days ago
member for 8.4 years, 2215 visits, last login: 5 days ago
 Indianola,Allegheny,PA
 $42 per month (12 month contract)
 "Works very well. Great speeds and little downtime."
 "None since I've moved..."
 "It's A-Okay!"
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Update: June 2009: We've downgraded to Digital Starter with HSI. We are still very pleased with the HSI. No problems or hiccups. Good, consistent performance for all of our needs--web surfing, downloading, MMO's XBOX Live, and Wii.
Update: Oct 2008: Well I got divorced and I've moved. Comcast works quite well out here in Indianola, PA. We have the triple play here and it's a great deal!
Update Feb 2007: Got a call offering a fee upgrade to 16/1 tier. It's a welcome upgrade from the 8/768 for which I'm under contract. They also extended my contract out another year (so I now as of March have another 1.5 years at a good price). Connection can be a little flaky in the evening. Pings sometimes go up significantly and speeds drop. It's doubtful that its my equipment because if my equipment was bad it would be just that--bad, period. It wouldn't be bad M-F 7pm-11pm and sometimes on Saturday. When it works, it works very well.
I now use OpenDNS instead of Comcast's DNS servers and am pleased with the performance boost to surfing the web. Gaming works fairly well. BUT playing an MMO can be a little tedious when the pings go up. I'm not sure if they've oversold my area or if Comcast VOIP and VoD drag down the total bandwidth available on my node. Something like that must be going on because it's too much of a coincidence that it only seems to happen when everyone in the neighborhood is home from work/school in the evening.
Update (8/28/2006) Upgraded again to upper tier. Got a great price and with a year contract. I'm not worried about the contract as I have been customer for a while. I'm still quite pleased with the service.
I still don't like the fact that I am forced to pay for economy basic cable that I don't use. I will never go back to cable TV. I would rather have an antenna on my roof for OTA. My neighbor has Comcast Digital HD Cable with a new HD TV--and yes it is hooked up correctly. I can't believe people actually pay for a poor picture and a slooooowww DVR box. My analog TV and satellite setup has a far better picture. The cable system in my area is recently rebuilt--so the whole thing baffles me.
Update (9/19/05) Downgraded my plan, but now speeds are back up due to the new speed upgrades. I now only have 384 up, but it has been plenty to fill my needs.
Update (3/3/05): Upgrade happened, getting ~5000 down and around 720 up. Can't complain too much. No problems or significant outages come to memory. Still happy!
Update (9/12/03): Had an occasional problem with having to iprelease/ipconfig 8/03 but this was due to equipment upgrades. It works fine now. Speeds are higher up and down 3000/256, and Xbox Live still works great. My Xbox, notebook and desktop can all be on (via router) at the same time and there is no apparent degradation in performance.
Downside: in recent months I was forced to buy econo-basic cable to keep the price down. I have Dish, but now my daughter has 13 channels in her room (as per my review below). Was going to knock 'value for money' down one notch to 3, but if we keep the current 3000+/256, I'm satisfied.
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@Home to ATTBI--now sort of Comcast. The billing is changed over, but I guess I'm still on the ATTBI network for now.
I have a Dish, so the price was going to go up for me, so I had econobasic cable installed in my daughter's room. It (HSI + econobasic) beats paying the same money for nothing but HSI.
Speeds work for me. I surf, email and game on XBOX Live. No lag.
We'll see what happens when everything is changed over. If I don't notice any change it'll be a good thing. In general conversation w/ a tech, he inferred that since Comcast purchased all of ATTBI's infrastructure, IPs, DNS servers, etc. would remain the same so the 'transfer' to Comcast would be 'seamless'.
Fingers are crossed! Here's hoping for the best!
Followup comments:  fiberguy
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join:2005-05-20
1 edit | No contracts... You don't have a "contract"... you just have a promotional price for a 12 month time. Comcast doesn't put people in contracts so you could cancel at any time if you wanted.
CDV and VOD (especially) don't affect HSI speeds. You can game effectively on a 128kbps line. You're on a 16/1 line. Your ping times are what will ultimately affect performance in gaming. | |
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join:2001-06-01
Indianola, PA | It was indeed a contract. No, actually it was a contract and when I read it did indeed state there was a fee for terminating early. They offered me a low price in turn for a commitment.
I have the link, but it is not working right now. | |
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