| Comcast will lose customers. Pricing change from $45 to $56 dollars is no joke. They're counting on us to just sit there and take it.
Just like there is a separation of church and state, I personally see cable internet service as having nothing to do with cable TV service. Sure it uses the same line, but I can think of a billion analogies that would help to differentiate the two. Basically, the company that acts as the ISP should be different than the physical cable provider, and in this case I would suggest all cable subscribers to move to Earthlink cable, where they still have reasonable pricing.
I am glad that DSL Reports still has the balls to bring to the forefront these types of problems. After all, what is a voice when its not heard? Look at all of our ISPs on here.. they're slowly dropping like flies. We're losing the war on choice and competition and our wallets are being raped.
Those of us that have sattelite service are always being given the shaft, when it comes to where/how we can install the dish, and now this crap. Its obviously an attempt by Comcast to reduce sattelite subscribers by strong-arming the ones that have their internet service. Whoever came up with this sad scam needs a swift punch in the face. |
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| I plan on bailing soon on Comca$t.
They flooded every station anti-satellite propaganda.
I'd much rather mount a dish on my roof and have it blow over (seeing I'm going to mount the damn thing properly, house is going to tip too) rather than every time it rains the signal goes dead for the entire block.
More money, less services. Comcast.
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| Heh, reminds me of my dish situation.
My apartment manager sent me a notice saying I could not have it drilled into the building. So I fabricated a platform upon which I placed 100 lbs of weights and screwed the dish into that. It really does work fine and has sustained lots of wind and stormy weather with no problems.
I would consider dropping comcast but there are three reasons why I am not:
A) 2000/256 cant be had on my Remote Terminal line (unless I pay $175 for 6000/384 from pacbell)
B) My land-line has developed lots of static lately and I dont want to have to deal with the dsl hassle
C) I know that my current newsgroup service is far better than that of SBC, and most likely that of other providers that use SBC's lines |
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 KaltesPremium
join:2002-12-04
Los Angeles, CA | reply to DSLTech5
Many customers of Comcast live in areas where DSL service is not available. Even densely populated areas like the greater DC area lack DSL.
In those cases, you cant ditch comcast no matter what, unless you want to go back to dial-up, which is unacceptable for many people. |
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I gave the heave ho to Comcast this Last Friday. I now have a much more reliable SBC DSL line. Its overall throughput may not be as fast, but it appears to have a much more stable connection.
If I had been told that "hey if you also sign up for Cable-TV we will discount your internet"....that I could understand.
DSL will grow by this. Demand for the service will enhance the increase of RT's (remote Terminals or Gateways). |
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