 mdr5Premium
join:2003-01-29
Somerset, NJ | [HSI] just got my comcast notice   
I guess Im switching over to Comcast, I got an email about my grandfathered static IP and Im going to lose it. Man, I really dont want to deal with Comcast at all, but I have nothing else.
Im losing my static IP! This STINKS!!!!! Already hate em.
Someone please help me out here and tell me something good about switching to Comcast from Patmedia. I had 20mb speeds, never had a single issue, been rock steady. And hmm. I just checked tonight and my speed is at 11mb.
Someone tell me something good, PLEASE!!!! |
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| It was inevitable that the local nature of Patmedia would fade, once the sale was announced. I am also concerned about having the presence of a big cable company in the home, but I'm also looking forward to FIOS as competition (sometime during my lifetime) |
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 DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
kudos:1 | add my name to the future fios list. The prices just went up again. So now i am just waiting for the verizon people to knock on my door. Comcast likes to price out its customers. |
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| Same here i hope fios comes to far hills, i will switch my high speed internet as soon as verizon is offering it. |
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alokkola
join:2004-04-04
Franklin Park, NJ | reply to mdr5
I wonder if we will get the Comcast Tivo DVR option? |
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Does anyone know what will happen to our "@patmedia.net" email addresses? |
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| You will probably lose your email address soon, honestly why would you tie yourself to your cable provider for email?
You should get yourself a gmail account. |
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comcast tivo is barely available (boston only) in its existing systems, what makes u think it will be available in patmedia's system anytime soon. you probably won't even see a big lineup revamp for a while. |
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Comcast wants you to have an @comcast email address, not @patmedia. It's free advertising for them to have their name in your email address. Years ago Comcast took over E. Brunswick and they got 3 days notice that their email was changing according to my friend who lives there. Hopefully today email is more engrained and they realize it will take more than 3 days to change my email at the hundreds of places that have it. And no I'm not going to change it to @comcast, I've got my own domain now so I'm not linked to my ISP. |
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| why people don't use yahoo, gmail etc for email is beyond me. i've had the same yahoo email address for 10 yrs. and i've changed isp's 3 times. |
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| I like the idea of being able to use MS Outlook to read/track my messages, I have messages going back years.
However, I just noticed that gmail supports IMAP mail so maybe I'll try that. Not sure if any of the other services offers it for free. |
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1 edit | Gmail also supports smtp & pop, as does Lavabit.
Fastmail & AIM (the free AOL mail)support IMAP.
If you could get through a little German, GMX.net, is a great provider that's been around for years, that provides free pop & smtp along with 1 Gig of storage. Gmail, I believe, gives you more than 6 Gigs.
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By the way comcast will be calling you about a special promotion for the people with static ip's. You pay a little more but get fasters speeds and still keep your static ip. |
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