chovy
join:2000-05-23
Capitola, CA
| reply to trouble56
Re: Comcast.net Outage
I live in Los Gatos, CA.
Well holy crapcast batman!!! at least it ain't just me. I even went out and bought a new $80 linksys modem because the friggin' tech support lackies claim there was nothing wrong.
here's my scenario. On wedneday evening (6/15/05) I started having really bad connection, it was like dialup. I called tech "no outage reported in your area". Those f-ing d--chbags think cycling the modem will cure everything. Next time I'm telling them "Look i've talked with you 15 times in the last 3 days. Don't you think I've tried that already?"
Anyway, back on point. Thursday was dialup type speed too, although thursday morning at around 3am I got them to admit there was an "OS Upgrade" they were performing in my area.
Thursday evening, dialup type speeds. Got a tech to "ping" me, and said there was 7% packet loss, and he'll send a guy out. "No outage reported". I checked online, and there WAS an outage reported: »tinyurl.com/7pqph
Friday it didn't work at all (bought a new modem, thought maybe it was me). They claimed yet again "no outage reported", after seeing these posts, I know they are full of sh*t. You know, I don't mind an outage once in awhile, but when they don't sync up their tech support phones guys and the network engineers on this, it really chaps my hide. One time I called friday (i called 4 times already today) I got an automated "outage alert" in my area. "Press 1 to get an autmoated callback when the outage is fixed". It's been 15 hours, and I still haven't gotten that call - called two more times. One guy claimed "no outage reported" and the other intiially said none, then 10 minutes later after cycling the modem said "oh wait. there is a dhcp sync up issue in your area". WTF don't you just look a little closer before we go through this bs all over again? (this is all going on my blog at »www.chovy.com) I'm PO'd at Comcast lately.
PS - I run Linux as well as XP, and use "mtr google.com" to check my packet loss (typically at around 50%, which explains the slowness), as well as the tests here at dslreports. Tonight I'm getting 350kbps down and 357kbps up.
Your download speed : 358876 bps, or 350 kbps.
A 43.8 KB/sec transfer rate. -- this is very slow, usuaally get around 500KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 359732 bps, or 351 kbps. |
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uplike247
join:2002-04-22
Newark, CA
| Re: Comcast.net Outage FIX
HEY DUDE! I FOUND THE FIX, YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE IT.
CHANGE YOUR SPLITTER ON THE BOX, GO RADIOSHACK AND BUY
AND NEW 2.4GHZ SATTELITE SPLITTER, THAT WILL FIX IT!!!
THE COMCAST ONE BY THEM IS A PIECE OF CRAP. CHANGE ALL OF THEM, YOU'LL SEE NO MORE PROBLEMS!!! |
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chovy
join:2000-05-23
Capitola, CA
| what do you mean by "Splitter" on the box. Are you talking about splitting the cable where it goes to TV and one to Modem?
I've already replaced that splitter. Makes no difference.
Comcast is down for me today. Don't know why, they report no outage.
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ChovyBlog: »www.chovy.com |
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phaqu
join:2005-05-26
Marietta, GA
| My question is,....Why are you still with them? Why would you spend your hard earned money on a piece of shit service like that? I got WAY tired of their crap and canceled. There are good hsi service providers out there, trust me, you just have to find them. |
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TheLady
join:2005-08-29
Charleston, SC | reply to chovy
Re: Comcast.net Outage
It really isn't fun having dial up speeds while paying for cable. That is, when I can get a speed at all. |
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