 Review by heathcpe 
UPDATED: 2.3 years ago
member for 7.7 years, 459 visits, last login: 302 days ago
 Brandon,Rankin,MS
 $69 per month
 about 30 days
 "Very fast upload and download!!!!"
 "NO MUSIC OR GAME SERVICE INCLUDED WITH TOP TIER OF SERVICE."
 "Very fast downloads, latency getting better, no extras, terrible support."
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Comcast finally added more bandwidth to get rid of the evening time high latency. They have also added powerboost for the area. Therefore I have updated this review to reflect connection reliability and an increase in the value for the money.
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Ordered 8/768 and I get 8.5/750
I pay $69.95/month
Latency normally runs around 60ms, in the evenings it jumps to 120ms and sometimes gets as high as 250ms. Not very good for something called High Speed. When latency is high VPN and VoIP suffer.
Followup comments:  
dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| Music and Games "NO MUSIC OR GAME SERVICE INCLUDED WITH TOP TIER OF SERVICE."
Huh? Uhm, we get Rhapsody radio Plus($60.00 value) and all the kiddie games anyone could want!
The 8mbps service gets you the free Fileplanet mebership.
No kick butt games for free... but all the latest(newest) Demos and game related new and files - Patches.
Don't kno what you are expecting, but if you go to the Comcast home page, left side, Customer benefits...
We get a few goodies.
Not that it matters though... all I am interested in really is a FAT pipe!
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heathcpe
join:2002-03-19
Brandon, MS
| Re: Music and Games Before Comcast took over I had a free Suscom Music membership. I could download all the music files I wanted. I also had free shockwave unlimited membership at shockwave.com. My wife could play Dinner Dash or what ever all she wanted in full screen mode.
I don't see how the Rhapsody radio plus can be valued at $60 when the same type service is available else where for free. And the games are either played in a little square in your browser or you can buy it to play full screen.
Now with that said, all that truly matters though is the pipe size (BIG) and quality of the providers network (low latency).
But, once you've had a taste of great free stuff and someone takes it away you can't help but bitch a little, right?  | |
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