| It's Comcastic alright... Considering how unreliable Comcast's service is in Florida (they were down again for 6 hrs in my parents' neighborhood), I'll be sticking to DSL+VoIP. It's bad enough that their service goes down frequently, even worse is when they claim there is no problem on their end and it must be customer equipment. Considering I do broadcast television engineering, including Comcast's own cable head-ends, I can assure you, my equipment and wiring is fine. Took Comcast 2 months (and close to 30 hours of my time on the phone to customer service) to figure out they had a bad port on a switch inside their headend.
DSL = $30/mo
Wholesale VoIP runs me ~$5-10/mo based on usage. |
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| I read up on all the findings here and this one is kinda funny. First they talk about how many came on over the last 2 years then how they put that little part in about the 90 some thousand they lost and add it to collage kids going to school and what not.First off it's not the collage kids paying the bill, it's the parents ( there at home for break for the most part) I know people that like the VOIP with comcast, not many but I do. But I would have to lean more of the 92,000 customers leaving to they are now able to have Fios, have gone to Direct Tv and so on. I have Comcast, I like Comcast. They have been a good service to me but I used Skype for years when it was free which was always very clear so for me to now have to pay for it? Nope And also the demand for bandwidth is becoming much greater for all the new things coming out. They and not just Comcast see it as most use is just surfing the web. Myself being a gamer know that every day all day 24/7 Millions yes Millions are online gaming at any given time. You take that number and and given the fact most these people understand Bandwidth they will take the best available to them. Like I said I like Comcast but if better came around I would be one added to that 92,000 first chance. |
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My service has been down for 3 days now.. Latencies are higher then ever. While the 8/756 tier is nice it's not worth the headache. Not to mention they raised my bill 24$ this month!
Powerboost is temporary, anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. No you do not have a 30/2 line from Comcast. lol.
When it comes to VoIP I'm with Inphonex now pay as you go.. at roughly $8.00 a month I'm loving this service! It's exactly what I needed. Concrap voice isn't available here and I wouldn't go for it even if it was.
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said by JerryTongue:I read up on all the findings here and this one is kinda funny. First they talk about how many came on over the last 2 years then how they put that little part in about the 90 some thousand they lost and add it to collage kids going to school and what not.First off it's not the collage kids paying the bill, it's the parents ( there at home for break for the most part) I know people that like the VOIP with comcast, not many but I do. But I would have to lean more of the 92,000 customers leaving to they are now able to have Fios, have gone to Direct Tv and so on. I have Comcast, I like Comcast. They have been a good service to me but I used Skype for years when it was free which was always very clear so for me to now have to pay for it? Nope And also the demand for bandwidth is becoming much greater for all the new things coming out. They and not just Comcast see it as most use is just surfing the web. Myself being a gamer know that every day all day 24/7 Millions yes Millions are online gaming at any given time. You take that number and and given the fact most these people understand Bandwidth they will take the best available to them. Like I said I like Comcast but if better came around I would be one added to that 92,000 first chance. All I ever hear is "Im a gamer! I need more bandwidth" Online gaming doesn't use THAT much bandwidth. Latency is more important. |
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Both are important, more so depending on the game.
Example: Hosting a game of Halo through a program used through a PC, you connect Xboxs by way of systemlink it requires
128 KBPS Per XBox You can do the math.
You say all you hear is about gamers, well slowly people in these forums are starting to realise how many people use the Internet for Gaming, you dont see much of them here because they are online gaming not here. I would have to agree with you a little though, Latency is more important, with poor Latency it doesnt matter how much bandwidth you have but you do need both. |
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