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Infomastr2

join:2004-08-14
Berkeley, CA

Re: SF/Oak Bay Area Comcast - Worst Service Ever

Thank you for your message concerning the Comcast High-Speed Internet service.

We are currently experiencing an outage in your area concerning intermittent connection and slow speeds.

We apologize for this inconvenience and are working toward a resolution as quickly as we can.

We hope to have the service restored shortly but do not have an estimate as to when this will occur.

We thank you for your patience as we investigate the source of the outage and make the necessary repairs to the network.

In response to:
Your service during the last few months from about 7 pm until midnight
has been terrible. This is hopefully another email from a frustrated
customer pointing to the egregious latency problems (such as avg. ping
ms to yahoo.com being 300-500 with samples of 100) your network has
been having. Yet your technical support does not desire to rectify
the problem - calls to support only suggest that the faulty node is at
the individual user's router or modem. But that is not the case, and
given the volume of emails like this you've undoubtedly received, I
recommend taking action if you want to maintain your customer base.
You will not survive to compete with other ISPs (hopefully some will
move up here, or is your plan to maintain monopolistic domination over
the area and ignore the cries of terrible service?).
I recommend passing this email to your manager, as I do not want a
canned email response explaining the uncertainty of the source of this
problem. The source is clear. The only question is whether steps
will be taken, or whether the loss of one direct (and many more
indirect, because this service has been outrageous to the point that
your reputation will suffer far greater losses from recommendations
against fellow bay area residents) customer will make a difference.
I certainly hope it will.

UPDATE: It's starting early. Tested about 2ish and was pinging 30ms avg to yahoo, and it's now up around 85ms (3:30 pm). Clearly this is based on overloaded circuits and usage times. I highly expect to get 300-500ms within the next couple hours.

Dr_John
Premium
join:2002-02-10
San Mateo, CA

Re: SF/Oak Bay Area Comcast - Worst Service Ever

It's been like this for months...occasionally okay, but usually terrible. Stormy day here in the Bay Area - was hoping to get in some online gaming. Of course with pings like these I'm getting booted from servers:

>tracert www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to www.yahoo.akadns.net [68.142.226.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms 68.87.198.29
4 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms 68.87.192.22
5 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 68.87.192.26
6 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 68.87.192.34
7 12 ms 10 ms 11 ms 68.87.195.6
8 303 ms 318 ms 308 ms 12.117.240.13
9 470 ms 449 ms 443 ms tbr2032701.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.2]
10 356 ms 346 ms 351 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.41]
11 447 ms 438 ms 441 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.10.29]
12 435 ms 419 ms 434 ms 12.122.81.245
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 327 ms 405 ms 557 ms ge-3-1-0.p440-msr1.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.96.189
]
15 461 ms 493 ms 400 ms t-3-1.bas1.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.33.91]
16 440 ms 446 ms 447 ms p25.www.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.226.56]

Trace complete.
NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC


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Re: SF/Oak Bay Area Comcast - Worst Service Ever

Mod edit per request of NormanS See Profile with this message:

quote:
Upon reflection I don't want to post, take me back!

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