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  • Location: Manitowoc, Manitowoc, WI, USA
  • Cost: $53 per month
Better then att
Constant rate hikes and no competition.
Easier to deal with then att
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I have had comcast internet for a while, I did have the 1mb down 384k up tier for awhile and then went up to the 6/1 tier (not sure if thats the performance one?), seems when there is problems the outages are 2 or 3 hours or more.

I am having problems right now, I have tryed my other cable modem, same problems, losing sync, lights go blinking. I call tech support and tell them about it, and they bring up the router as the problem! I try to make myself more clear, and said the modem log says the modem was shutting down and restarting. They offer to send someone out and I ask how much that will be, 49.95...I passed on it. We have had a very hot summer for our area, power levels seem to jump when the sun is out. I feel like I had interrupted those poor people at comcast. Just seems like the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top at this company.

9/18/2012...4 hour internet outage 8am til 12pm...Hope that has taken care of the high end signal problems, or else I am dumping comcast if I see anymore modem is shutting down and rebooting in the cable modem logs.

9/26/2012 Starting at 1:45pm internet goes down, still not working by 11:45pm later that night, Assume it came back early thursday morning, NOT too happy with comcast at this point.

So I start my morning on line, and already 7:46 the modem loses sync and shuts down and reboots...For WHAT!? I don't know. I would of thought that long outage would of fixed the problems.

Update: The local news paper covered the outage, Both outage incidents involved fiber outages in our transport network provider. They say its been taken care of.

9-28-2013 about 20 to 3PM My youtube video stops and webpages won't load, All solid green lights on modem. What is comcasts problem? I hope to find something that is better then comcast with less issues, and something that actually fixes problems.

Time for an update since I had a technician over on 10-7-2013. Connectors up on the pole and the side of the house changed, at this point things are looking ok. At this point, it seems like the issues were the really old outside connections between the pole and the house. So I will bump up ratings, and so forth. Oddly enough phone support actually was more helpful then comcast direct forums. It was great to have a couple of phone support people actually go off script for once. I also got a phone survey later on after this technician appointment, as certain things didn't apply and stuff, I ended up saying yes, as its stuff I already would of known, and didn't feel it was right to dock a tech for that stuff. as far as the technician rating I give 5 stars.

Time for a update 4-13-2014 The connection reliability has been pretty good, Only one to two drops a month, possibly due to EAS tests. I am bumping up the connection reliability, and tech support ratings to be fair. It really all to depends on who you get on the phone, if you don't like the answer you get call back and try again.

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My experience may help.

Started with @Home near the turn of the Century, which was taken over by ATTBI [not sure of exact name anymore] then Comcast acquired. Have had Comcast in 4 locations in the PNW and that includes two States. Did have DSL for a year from a small Co-op way out in the country [best service I ever had, though only 1.5 meg]

Where I am now, I have had the most outages so far. Some lasting up to 5 hours. I was able to call the Comcast number from the phone registered to the account and the "system" advised me that there was a known outage every time, with an ETA. The last time, it also included TV. I have just watched DVD movies till it returned.

Did have a problem with speeds late this summer and suspected that the line "I had run" was the culprit. And it was. I originally ran the line myself, just for TV and for that it worked fine. I used some "crap" connections and leftover cable for a 75' run. Over 3 years it degraded. My speeds were erratic at different times of the day, per various speed tests. Called support, let them do their thing, and they sent a Company Tech the next day. Since the line was in the attic and furniture was in the way in the room where the Modem was, made access easy for the Tech by moving everything out of the way. And having the Laptop connected to the Modem directly when he came.

We ended up by putting in a new splitter and ran new line from that to the modem. Before I had 3 or so barrel connectors and some crap connectors. I helped the Tech. as much as I could. I could tell that he appreciated that as it was toasty in the attic. Plus it put us on an even playing field, so I could ask questions and get good answers.

Ended up with speeds higher than my Tier, wirelessly and more so once connected directly to the modem.

Was never told what the cost was to be at the time of the call, but it was only $32.00 or so on the next bill. Best $32.00 ever spent. And he was here 2 hours. He fixed a couple of other issues that would have been problems over the next couple of years for cable going to another room where the main TV is.

So what is the takeaway from the story? - help the Techs and they will help you, whether on the phone or in person. And one can learn of new tools they now have. Just that week the Tech had been issued some slick ones to do his job.

Plus it probably does not hurt that I have provided Tech Support for USWest/Qwest, GM, Sprint/Nextel, Vesta, and a bunch of other companies. I know what the person can and can not do on the other end of the phone line. And assholes did not get very far with me, I would help them, but would not go out of my way. It would hurt my call metrics. Nice people? I bent over backwards and could have several hour long calls per day, without hurting my metrics.

I do realize that different areas of the country have different levels of experience with Comcast, but so far, in my area, I talk with local people in Tech Support.

I can get CenturyLink where I am at, but reading the reviews and talking with others in my area as to their problems, will stay with Comcast for now.

Good luck solving your issues!

htth