 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to I love Comcast
Re: Good bye AT&T I liked Comcast too. I miss them and want them back. Roadrunner has been fairly crappy.
But I still ain't throwing away my landline. Through SWBell, SBC, AT&T, it's been 100% reliable. I can not say the same for my internet connection or my cell. It's just a basic dial tone, no fancy shmancy long distance or calling features, and the price has actually gone down slightly. At $22/mo, I realize I could get a lot more features for the price, but as for me, nothing beats the 100% up time of my old copper line. I don't even have a modern NID!
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kenny2
join:2003-08-06
Tifton, GA | reply to I love Comcast
Well All I have to add to this is there not giving away dsl, dsl reachs a lot more places than cable does in Georgia anyhow. cable pings are higher than dsl, and cable sucks wind from 4- 9 at night, How big of a footprint does comcast have?
Thats what I thought, you will not find comcast where my town is or any other town around here, The bottom line is cable companys are in trouble and thinking they can keep there base by offering all these higher speeds when At&t rolls out the video service and beleve me that service will far surpass anything cable has ever offered, and voip will never be reliable for business's for sure. |
NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to I love Comcast
said by I love Comcast :
Consumers are NOT stupid..(for the most part)...
They understand how to ADD.
And the addition looks like THIS.
Twenty dollars for a pots line that no one in their right mind wants anymore...
So, am I stupid, or just crazy! Thanks for looking down on your neighbors. Fortunately, elitist snobs don't get to define what I like, or do.
10~15.00 for this slow as molasses DSL service...
It is faster than dial-up. It may be as fast as many people who can't afford to drive Mercedes and BMWs can afford.
Equals, what people can get for TWENTY times and more theses kinds of speeds now on services like Comcasts.
Comcast is expensive. My price point for HSI is $25. Comcast only drops under that for limited time promotional offers. You have to cancel, then re-sign up to keep those low Comcast prices.
We all know the TRUTH about how many people can't even get DSL, never mind the lowest tier which so many are forced to put up with because of the distance factors.
Huh? How many would that be? Of all the people I know with DSL service, only one was so far out that he couldn't even get 768kbps. Everyone else gets at least 1.5M, with their line stats showing that they can get 3M, or even 6M.
And, we all KNOW that when people can get 6MB DSL, it's really only 5.2 something factoring in overhead.
Assumes the provider won't over provision the speed. Qwest will, and some divisions of Verizon.
And, we all KNOW that when AT&T reaches that tier level, then people wind up paying the same as cable, except with many cable providers you STILL get 3 x's those speeds...
I'd have to pay $56.95 per month for Comcast 4M service, or $56.31 for Comcast 6M service (which would include throwing $13.41 at them for Basic TV; which I don't need because we have DirecTV).
and we all KNOW that AT&T's pathetic answer to all this is Uverse, which still has them trying to rely on those old copper lines buried all over the country.
Last time I looked, the Comcast drops were....Cu.
Uverses subscriber numbers so far are HORRIBLE. Is it any wonder why people now don't want their HDTV delivered to them over that rusting out copper?
The main reason I don't want U-Verse is the same as the main reason I don't want cable TV. Satellite is just fine, thank you.
What exactly do you see here that isn't "in decline"?
This company is a disaster now and unless they do something quick besides trying to buy more companies to cover up all this..they are headed to one very gigantic fall IMHO.
Opinions are like...
In case you haven't visited them yet, you'd better run over to the OOL forum..the Cox forum..the Comcast forum....and others.
And read all the complaints about low speed high latency, and bad routing, eh?
These cable companies are eating AT&T's lunch, sticking a knife into this company, and watching them bleed to death.
AT&T's phone business and DSL business might very well not be around in 5 years if this keeps up!
They'd better QUICKLY do something!
What are you smoking?
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Norman
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 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to dvd536
said by dvd536:said by toby:Qwest is major, I wish AT&T would buy them. I wish verizon would buy qwest so i'd have at least a chance of getting fios. FiOS is bleeding Verizon dry. Still many towns are extorting swimming pools from TPC if they want to be grace with the honor of spending billions to wire the town and pay tax on every attachment.
It would be better to have the STICKY TUBE politicians take tax money out of your pocket to build a half arsed WiFi network.
It has only been about 5 months sines New Jersey passed a state wide franchise law. In that short time the pace of FiOS deployment has increased 10 fold in the state. Do the towns have to float a bond to pay for FiOS? Nooooooooooo, the towns get 6% of Verizon's revenue.
Now what has this done for the great unwashed of New Jersey? IT HAS MADE US NUMBER ONE, 1, UNO, THE BIG CHEESE.
New Jersey now stands with the great nations of the world. Those guys in Stansomething and the proud people of Upper Uberland. Check back in another 6 months. |
