underthehood
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join:2006-01-04
Rockford, IL
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Re: And I Suspect..
Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get |
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
Premium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
clubs:
| said by underthehood  :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get And you are still a customer?
Oh well.
Hob
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
 ·Embarq
 ·ViaTalk
·Comcast
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said by underthehood :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get In all fairness, companies do that all the time. I'm not saying it's right, but it's what PR people get paid for. They could probably make it look like the event where two racing Comcast vans hit & killed that poor little girl was a good thing, if they really tried hard enough. I'm sure it would say something about being prompt to customer appointments, saving greenhouse gas due to spending less time on the road (yes I'm sure they would say that actually), and saving the parents of that girl money.
My only two gripes with Comcast: It's a bit pricey and they've got a cap. They could do away with the cap and I could justify the extra price. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
·Comcast
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said by underthehood :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get Caps = 250GB. Sure, it's capped, but much higher than the other companies. Would you rather Comcast follow TW's lead and place caps at 40GB?
BT = I can download plenty on BT - and at very fast speeds. No problem there!
Constant Service Outages = Service hardly ever goes down. If anyone, I might have to reboot my cable modem once a month or so.
Constantly moving stations = Analog is out. Digital is in. If you can't accept the fact of life that Digital is the future, then there isn't much anyone can do. Comcast needs to move channels to the digital package to free up space. |
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HiDesert
join:2008-08-17
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said by underthehood :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get I agree with most of this. I used to get allot of mini outages too and comcraps expanded basic, which costs more then my digital satellite system now has horrible PQ. I just got reminded how bad it was the other day when I was at a friends house.. Pathetic.
Also CC HSI up time compared to my Qwest DSL is a joke. Comcrap can only dream to be this reliable.. I mean I have had one outage in two years with Qwest. But as for blocking bit torrent.. are they really still doing that even after the throttles/caps were put in? If so, that is pathetic as well. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs: | reply to hobgoblin
No what your seeing is most folks don't have much choice in some regions. And choose the lesser of 2 evils.
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PapaMidnight
join:2009-01-13
Baltimore, MD
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said by hobgoblin :I think these results show that Comcast continues to give customers what they want despite the continual bleating on this site. Hob Really? Because I gotta tell you, I didn't exactly ask for Caps nor Traffic Shaping. Nor did any of my neighbors to my knowledge.
said by hobgoblin :said by underthehood :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get And you are still a customer? Oh well. Hob Well you know, some of us live in the range of the 33% monopoly that Comcast holds in America without the option of Fiber Optic services, let alone DSL. |
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jt7
@comcast.net
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i download on bt and i have comcast. i never had any issues with my hsi connection at all. true the format is change for some anolog channels. sub they are not making people upgrade to higher packages. they gave me one regular box and two digital adapters at no add cost |
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Pizz
Hi
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
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said by Rob :said by underthehood :Lets see................Comcrap is giving me "what I want?" Caps, can't download anything on BT, constant service outages, constantly moving stations from the base cable pkg to the digital only and sending out mailers saying this is an IMPROVEMENT?! Oh yeah I'm getting everything I want except for some vaseline and a kiss after the total screwing I get Caps = 250GB. Sure, it's capped, but much higher than the other companies. Would you rather Comcast follow TW's lead and place caps at 40GB? BT = I can download plenty on BT - and at very fast speeds. No problem there! Constant Service Outages = Service hardly ever goes down. If anyone, I might have to reboot my cable modem once a month or so. Constantly moving stations = Analog is out. Digital is in. If you can't accept the fact of life that Digital is the future, then there isn't much anyone can do. Comcast needs to move channels to the digital package to free up space. They fact MSOs/DSL Companies are capping, is a travesty. And sadly, majority of users have no clue what a cap is, that it'll never cross mind, unless they go over it. That's when we'll see! |
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NOZIREV
join:2008-07-10
New Bedford, MA
·Comcast
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"Really? Because I gotta tell you, I didn't exactly ask for Caps nor Traffic Shaping. Nor did any of my neighbors to my knowledge."
Really you werent one of the people complaining that CC has an imaginary cap and they need to put it in writing what the acceptable use is. You may not have been one of those people but there were plenty out there complaining that CC was sending letters to people telling them that they were using to much bandwidth well now it is in plain black and white and i still see the complaining when will it stop.
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HiDesert
join:2008-08-17
2 edits | said by NOZIREV :You may not have been one of those people but there were plenty out there complaining that CC was sending letters to people telling them that they were using to much bandwidth well now it is in plain black and white and i still see the complaining when will it stop. Well in the end it would have happened anyway since CC chose to use sandvine and block traffic and even denied doing that even when presented with the evidence. I think that smoking gun more or less forced them to become transparent. Comcast was so arrogant that they thought they could do anything they wanted without any regulation.. But it got the FCC's attention and put them in the big PR spotlight. If anything brought on the caps it was the sandvine mess IMO. I mean CC was really stupid saying they only used sandvine during times of congestion. It ran 24 X 7 and they thought that nobody would notice? I'm sorry, comcast has only themselves to blame.
To this day comcast has yet to come forward and admit that sandvine was used 24 X 7 and to publicly apologize for the whole mess they created. The only think CC was sorry about was that they got caught. |
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MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
| reply to NOZIREV
said by NOZIREV :"Really? Because I gotta tell you, I didn't exactly ask for Caps nor Traffic Shaping. Nor did any of my neighbors to my knowledge." Really you werent one of the people complaining that CC has an imaginary cap and they need to put it in writing what the acceptable use is. You may not have been one of those people but there were plenty out there complaining that CC was sending letters to people telling them that they were using to much bandwidth well now it is in plain black and white and i still see the complaining when will it stop. They didn't always send letters, they also used obnoxious, accusatory phone calls. And while I complained about the hidden cap, I NEVER wanted to just know what it was, I was against the cap altogether. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
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Re: And I Suspect..
"They didn't always send letters, they also used obnoxious, accusatory phone calls. And while I complained about the hidden cap, I NEVER wanted to just know what it was, I was against the cap altogether.'
How do you know they didn't send letters? Ever get the call?? I visited many homes for various reasons where people said they didn't get letters, when I told them they did, as the wife was walking out of the kitchen with a letter saying "honey.. I we got this a few weeks ago, I thought it was an advertisement offer".. and it was the letter.
And, you can be against the caps all you want.. I'm against being charged $0.40 cents for a slice of cheese on my Whopper, but it's how it's sold so I have to pay it if I want it. (It used to be included, but now it's extra) Things change.. and precious broadband, still one of the cheapest in home services provided, is not exempt from change.
What people, on this very site, don't realize, is that every day they come here and bitch about just how important it is to their survival, their very existence, and just how much they use it for everything, they are telling the providers "CHARGE ME MORE!! CHARGE ME MORE!!!"
When you make this service THAT important, and you TELL them it's THAT important to you, it all the sudden becomes of more.. "VALUE" to you.. your own importance doesn't equate cheaper prices.. it means they know you're going to pay for it becuase you can't live without your drug.
To this day, the average $35 price tag on internet is not going to catch the attention of anyone to do anything to drop your price ore remove caps. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to HiDesert
"Also CC HSI up time compared to my Qwest DSL is a joke. Comcrap can only dream to be this reliable.. I mean I have had one outage in two years with Qwest."
Interesting.. they're dream must have come true becuase my CHSI has been more reliable than my Qwest connection I run side by side. The last time my Qwest went down, it was down for 5 days in a row with 3 tech visits.
IOW, you're generalizing comcast and qwest in your own world. You have bad experiences with Comcast and good with Qwest, I have the exact opposite. And, others will say the same. Likewise, there are people that will agree with you.
Many people out there blanket statement and generalize... I wonder if they realize that its not always that way for everyone else. You can visit the different forums on this site, product specific, and you will hear both horror and good in all of them generally proportionate to the size of the provider. |
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MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
| reply to fiberguy
said by fiberguy :"They didn't always send letters, they also used obnoxious, accusatory phone calls. And while I complained about the hidden cap, I NEVER wanted to just know what it was, I was against the cap altogether.' How do you know they didn't send letters? Ever get the call?? I visited many homes for various reasons where people said they didn't get letters, when I told them they did, as the wife was walking out of the kitchen with a letter saying "honey.. I we got this a few weeks ago, I thought it was an advertisement offer".. and it was the letter. And, you can be against the caps all you want.. I'm against being charged $0.40 cents for a slice of cheese on my Whopper, but it's how it's sold so I have to pay it if I want it. (It used to be included, but now it's extra) Things change.. and precious broadband, still one of the cheapest in home services provided, is not exempt from change. What people, on this very site, don't realize, is that every day they come here and bitch about just how important it is to their survival, their very existence, and just how much they use it for everything, they are telling the providers "CHARGE ME MORE!! CHARGE ME MORE!!!" When you make this service THAT important, and you TELL them it's THAT important to you, it all the sudden becomes of more.. "VALUE" to you.. your own importance doesn't equate cheaper prices.. it means they know you're going to pay for it becuase you can't live without your drug. To this day, the average $35 price tag on internet is not going to catch the attention of anyone to do anything to drop your price ore remove caps. Yes, I got the call, and no letter, and they were rude, obnoxious, and accusatory. I am the one who gets the mail, and I know everything that comes here. But I think I already stated that didn't I? And you know from previous times you have trolled me that a lot of the issue had to do with a service problem that THEY contacted ME about.
Cheese is an extra to a hamburger. Totally different, bad analogy.
As far as your last statements, I don't speak for others, I have not stated what you did. However, I'll stay with my DSL. |
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MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
| reply to Anon
said by fiberguy :You, and many that complained, DID ask for caps..  Nice spin. I don't believe any (or many) ASKED for caps. Everyone wanted to know what they were, since they were not being honest on the issue. There is a difference. And remember, many might not have known how much they actually used, especially since Comcast was enforcing a hidden cap without giving users a means with which to measure it. |
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