 Review by sansri88 
UPDATED: 13 days ago
member for 3.9 years, 1484 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Iselin,Middlesex,NJ
 $160 per month
 about 1 days
 "Triple play cheap, lots of HD, all sports in HD."
 "Nothing really...would like some more South Asian subscription networks..."
 "Stickin with Comcast. Great service now."
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Update 11/9
Comcast finished their analog repos in October and subsequently added about 40 HD channels to our lineup, with more hopefully to come late November or early December. I'm very content with what we get, and this review has been updated to reflect that. Go Comcast!
Update 4/20
Comcast is rolling along now with adding HD and analog repos. It took them a few months, but they added 12 HD channels in the past 2 weeks. MLB HD on 4/1, and 11 HD channels on 4/7. Just announced this past Friday, MSNBC and TCM are moving to digital only next month. Consistency is great, more HD expected. We're getting there...
Update 12/30
Comcast is doing some analog repos on 1/27, I expect to see new HD channels added after that date. I'll update my review once they do add new HD.
However, I do have GREAT news on the internet front. Comcast never ceases to amaze me. They've bumped my speeds finally to 12/2, and Docsis 3.0 is available. Now, to only convince my father to let us upgrade to the Ultra tier....
Update 12/7
Can you believe it? Still only 26 HD channels. Comcast can shove it for all I care, Verizon bumped up Woodbridge for the FiOS roll out from 2010 to mid next year so I'm jumping ship and will be paying the ETF when FiOS is available on my block. It's the 21st century Comcast, not the mid 1900's! They've failed to step up to the plate, and I'm reflecting my review to show that.
Fast forward to August 26th.
We still only have 26 HD channels with none coming on the horizon. What gives? Comcast sucks. The triple play is great and all, but they suck when it comes to HD service (of which I have 2 HDTVs). Changing my review to reflect that.
Edit 2/16/08:
Comcast Technician came out to diagnose VoD problem. Checked out the work that the contractor had done, said it was crap and he was going to report the contractor to his supervisor. Tech will come back tomorrow to run a 2nd dedicated line into our house to fix the problem.
Edit 2/5/2008:
Alright! Install went great, the tech was REALLY nice.
He gave me a free amp and installed it along with rewiring a certain area by the splitters.
I gave the tech free reign in where to put the eMTA and wiring, he really enjoyed that. Put it and made sure the wiring was clean and neat. Got everything on the CDV end working within 1 hour or so (the people on the phone were taking forever to pick up to activate everything).
The internet was a different story. For some reason they put my modem into a walled garden mode. He couldn't figure it out why it wasn't working (didn't know then it was getting the walled garden config file). Put in a service ticket for someone to come tomorrow. Later I went into the logs of the modem and saw the wrong config file, called Comcast. had them remove the modem, add it back and send the right config file. All fixed
All in all so far everything is great. I get all my channels that I'm supposed to, CDV voice quality is just as good, if not better than Verizon POTS. Internet works just as it was before. Amplifier works great.
A++ for Comcast. I think I'm going to be staying with them for a while now...
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Had no other choice besides satellite broadband, too expensive for that. Have 6/384 for $42.95 with PowerBoost, Self Install Kit from Best Buy (free modem!)
Have a SB5120 that I am noticing is faltering a bit. Maybe have to replace it soon. Comcast tech support really nice, have helped me a lot when I needed it.
Current stuff I have with them:
HSI Performance Tier, Digital Preferred Cable, 2 STB's (1 HD, 1 SD). Ordered Zee TV at $12.95/mth
Total cost per month comes to something like $148.xx after all the fees and stuff.
Had Comcast come out and replace the splitter at the pole for digital cable problems, noticed my internet speeds have SKYROCKETED. Now getting full PB (12mb down, 1.5.mb up), awesome and stable internet connection. Modem has also righted itself somehow.
Totally worth it. Go for it if you have the choice!
Edit: I will be getting the Triple Play on Thursday if Comcast can port my number over from Verizon. Otherwise I'll switch to a double play and Verizon Freedom Essentials. Will post back Tuesday or Wednesday updating phone porting situation.
Oh yeah forgot to add Comcast bumped us up to either 6000/768 or 6000/1000 for the performance tier.
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