brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL
1 edit | cool
Now please increase the high tiers now. Thanks |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| said by brianiscool  :Now please increase the high tears now. Thanks I don't think a free speed increase would make anyone cry. |
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ptrowski
Got Helix?
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join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
clubs: | reply to brianiscool
Tears huh? |
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Cabal
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join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA | reply to brianiscool
They doubled them last month. Check the news archive. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| reply to ptrowski
said by ptrowski :Tears huh? Tiers is repeated 6 times in the body of the article and is of course in the title. Wow, just .... wow. |
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baineschile
2600
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to brianiscool
Just wait for DOCSIS 3.0 in your area....should be in most of the footprint by the end of 09 |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
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join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| reply to Matt
said by Matt :said by brianiscool :Now please increase the high tears now. Thanks I don't think a free speed increase would make anyone cry. except for the **AA's |
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bender
Bite my shiny metal ass
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join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
clubs:
 ·T-Mobile US
 ·Vonage
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Midwest
 ·Mediacom
| wow!
way to go comcast. i'm still lost how economy means going skimpy. economy AFAIK means you get the most value for your dollar. last time i saw cable have speeds like this was back on @Home HSI. anyone remember those guys? that was like 9 years ago when i had that. |
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fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Wandering
·Comcast Digital Vo..
·Comcast
| reply to baineschile
Re: cool
said by baineschile :Just wait for DOCSIS 3.0 in your area....should be in most of the footprint by the end of 09 That is the only thing keeping me from jumping ship to AT&T DSL for the moment. When U-Verse (Re-Verse) comes to my town, then I may consider it over Comcast. Until then, Comcast it is.
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oldcomcastuser
@bellsouth.net
| in the old days
Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight. After that the service never worked right again. I got rid of it and tried again two years later after comcast had freed themselves from att. Service was horrible it only worked one day out of every month. FOUR ENGINEERS came out here and stared at blueprints for hours at a time and couldn't figure it out. I got rid of the service again and stuck to dialup after that.
Now I'm using komrade phone company dsl... the possible small caps and also the slimy way I was sold the current service are forcing me to consider comcast again because after december I will have to pay 32.95 just for dsl not counting my phone plan which I had to slim down to just basic service to keep the phone and dsl bill together lower than $60 a month.
My neigbors have been using comcast internet for about two years now and it works for them. We all live in the same apt complex so it should work for me now too. I think a while back some storm took out the cable and comcast finally had to replace something important but very old and thats maybe why my neighbor gets good signal lol.
How much is comcast internet at the "economy" price bundled with phone service anyway? |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| margins
Let me ask the important question.. after they did all the provisioning of the extra bandwidth.. did they actually go out and upgrade any external plant nodes that were already maxxed out(aka oversold) with customers?
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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| reply to Cabal
Re: cool
said by Cabal :They doubled them last month. Check the news archive. Did they? I am still only getting 8mbps down..... |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
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Re: in the old days
said by oldcomcastuser :
Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight. After that the service never worked right again. I got rid of it and tried again two years later after comcast had freed themselves from att. Service was horrible it only worked one day out of every month. FOUR ENGINEERS came out here and stared at blueprints for hours at a time and couldn't figure it out. I got rid of the service again and stuck to dialup after that.
Now I'm using komrade phone company dsl... the possible small caps and also the slimy way I was sold the current service are forcing me to consider comcast again because after december I will have to pay 32.95 just for dsl not counting my phone plan which I had to slim down to just basic service to keep the phone and dsl bill together lower than $60 a month.
My neigbors have been using comcast internet for about two years now and it works for them. We all live in the same apt complex so it should work for me now too. I think a while back some storm took out the cable and comcast finally had to replace something important but very old and thats maybe why my neighbor gets good signal lol.
How much is comcast internet at the "economy" price bundled with phone service anyway?
AT&T didn't buy Comcast.... |
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jester121
Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
 ·surpasshosting
·ViaTalk
| AT&T has to make new commercials now...
Around Chicago AT&T has been advertising "internet that's 26 times faster than Comcast!"
Of course, they're comparing Uverse's fastest 18Mbps (sometimes, maybe) with the slowest possible Comcast (was 768k).  |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
·Comcast
·Embarq
|  Dumb Comcast pricing structure.
 Before Comcast bought out Adelphia in South Florida, Adelphia offered broadband service at reduced cost if the customer subscribed to the I believe they called their digital cable platinum package. The price was $24.95 per month for 6Mb Down. That is one of the reasons that I stuck with Adelphia and did not transfer to BellSouth DSL. Comcast should consider offering customers a real deal if they subscribe to their CATV top tier. What a great way to retain customers. |
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to tmc8080
Re: margins
said by tmc8080 :did they actually go out and upgrade any external plant nodes that were already maxxed out(aka oversold) with customers? Why would they do out and do anything to equipment that only converts light to RF and vice versa? The node isn't the bottleneck, it's much further up the pipeline. All that work is done in the head end. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
·SONIC.NET
·RoadRunner Cable
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Cheese
Re: in the old days
said by Cheese :said by oldcomcastuser :
Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight.
AT&T didn't buy Comcast.... Well, they bought Media One, and Comcast gave them much of their subscriber base as the result of that transaction.
For most of the victims of the exchange, "AT&T bought Comcast" is an apt description. |
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | oh BOY!
a whole 256 kbps increase. What am I going to do with all this speed?
Uhm, fellas....AT&T DSL at 19.95 a month and Verizon DSL offering 3.0/768 for 5 dollars more are MUCH better deals! |
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR
clubs: | reply to brianiscool
Re: cool
How about that upload eh? laughable... |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to elray
Re: in the old days
Nearly as I can tell, MediaOne was spun off by Baby Bell US West (which was then bought by Qwest), and bought by AT&T. Then AT&T created "AT&T Broadband Internet" (ATTBI) to form a partnership with Comcast. In the end, ATTBI (not AT&T Corporation) was bought by Comcast.
It is a hell of a lot easier to sort out the inbreeding in the Ptolemaic family line (Cleopatra VII had only six great-grandparents; most people have sixteen) than it is to sort out the inbreeding in the telecom industry!
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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