 hescominsoon
join:2003-02-18
Brunswick, MD
 ·Comcast
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| This is BS When i moved into my house 5 years ago i had to wait a few months for DSL and the instant it came online they offered 7.1. A year ago they silently removed the 7 meg tier only to offer it now to try to keep up with cable. This is a total scam.
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | Re: This is BS Or in other words- Expanded to 1.6 million homes that will never see Fios in their area.
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join:2002-04-10 | Re: This is BS Let me correct you.. RE-EXPANDED to 1.6 million low and moderate income houses who will not see Fios =). | |
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join:2002-04-10 | Re: This is BS Just wait en, in a year or 2 ATT will trump up the new 3mbit service as a way of expanding and offering better speeds. Marketing =). | |
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join:2002-04-10 | Re: This is BS LOL... ah yes, the salesman trying to do his or her best on getting the mighty dollar from your hands. Amazing how many times you can point out how the service they are trying to sell is below par... I know I have. | |
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Skeedatl
Ah, push it - push it real good
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join:2007-12-26
The Cloud | IF bundled ...with horrible junk fee filled overpiced POTS service.
With overhead you're lucky to see 6.5Mb from it. If it was dry loop for that $40 I would consider it a good deal, but not when you have to bundle with POTS. | |
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| EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Re: IF bundled Verizon tries to compensate for overhead- I believe this "7Mbps" tier is actually around ~8 Mbps, unlike AT&T's policy. | |
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toadlife
Premium
join:2004-05-03
Coalinga, CA | Overpriced?
I pay $5.70 a month for my At&T POTS. | |
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Skeedatl
Ah, push it - push it real good
Premium
join:2007-12-26
The Cloud
·Cox HSI
·MegaPath
 ·Verizon FIOS
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·Verizon west (ex G..
·ViaTalk
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
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April 7th, @06:28PM
| Re: IF bundled So what, that's AT&T, and yeah, overpriced. I don't believe for 2 seconds you pay less than $6 total for POTS. $5.70 is the CHEAPEST quoted rate and doesn't include any other fees. And that basic service fee varies from service area to service area, ranging from $5.70 to $10.69 in Cali, plus junk fees, taxes and other charges.
Verizon STARTS at $10 for basic metered service, not including interstate line charges, taxes, junk fees, or any overpriced options like the $1.50 "how dare you not want to be in the phonebook" fee or $7.50 caller ID service. | |
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toadlife
Premium
join:2004-05-03
Coalinga, CA
·AT&T Yahoo
| Re: IF bundled said by Skeedatl  : I don't believe for 2 seconds you pay less than $6 total for POTS....Verizon STARTS at $10 for basic metered service, not including interstate line charges, taxes, junk fees, or any overpriced options like the $1.50 "how dare you not want to be in the phonebook" fee or $7.50 caller ID service. Sucks to be in Verizon territory I guess?
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Skeedatl
Ah, push it - push it real good
Premium
join:2007-12-26
The Cloud | Re: IF bundled My Verizon metered service after taxes was closer to $20, so if I were to try and get this $40 ADSL deal, I'm closer to $60/mo.
The forced bundling kills the deal, unless you already are willing to overpay for POTS. | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net
| Re: IF bundled Is $25-$30 more per month than an alternative for reliability make it worth it? Our Comcast Digital voice comes with a battery in the eMTA that lasts 8-10 hours. Plus, power outages where I live occur so rarely, we hardly ever use the back-up battery. Not to mention the Comcast service itself is very reliable too. | |
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Premium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
·Charter Pipeline
·Future Nine Corpor..
·Callcentric
·AT&T Midwest
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| Re: IF bundled said by anonomous :
Is $25-$30 more per month than an alternative for reliability make it worth it? Our Comcast Digital voice comes with a battery in the eMTA that lasts 8-10 hours. Plus, power outages where I live occur so rarely, we hardly ever use the back-up battery. Not to mention the Comcast service itself is very reliable too.
I sure think so.
For one thing, it's great for complaining to the power company when the power goes out.
I guess you could do that with the Comcast DV, though you'd have to do it within 8-10 hours, which isn't always possible (vacation, end of work day & power goes out right after you leave for work).
Also, I'm not sure how dial-up works over cable-phone (what I'm calling things like CDV, Charter's Phone, and similar), but if my Internet goes out, dial-up *IS* better than nothing.
You'd be surprised but it's happened more than once when I really needed Internet but my broadband wasn't available.
Another issue is faxing. The ability to fax reliably has saved my butt more than once.
How is faxing over cable-phone? | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net
| Re: IF bundled Fax and dial-up will both work over cable phone. It isn't like regular Voip, where neither is available to use and require a HSI connection. Plus, even if the power is out for more than 8-10 ours, I have a power inverter that plugs into the car cigarette lighter and puts out 400 watts of power, more than enough to power the eMTA, lights, HDTV and our HD-DVR. | |
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HiredGun
@rr.com
| You are fortunate to have a good Comcast experience. I just completed a project for the HQ in Philly and was speaking to a VP in charge of the South East Region. He can't even get his Programming menu to display at his own house. I thought this was pretty embarrasing. I rented a place out there for the duration of the project and used the "Tripple-Play" Bundle. Really just used the Video and Data. My VOIP Phone range all the time (Telemarketers calling to congratulate me on my "new home") within days of the service being turned up. So I just un-plugged the phone and used my Cell like I have for the past 10 years. The data speeds were impressive. What was even more impressive was when I used the VPN to connect into the company network. Once the VPN connection was established, my downloads took 1/4 the time! I don't know if I will ever get the chance to download a 2gig image in less than 20 minutes again. | |
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join:2005-05-28
Dundalk, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: IF bundled Well some of the Comcast stuff I hate is with the bandwidth hogs stealing all the connection in the neighborhood when someone pays $70 for their internet and only get $14 quality internet. I know you can't compare apples to oranges but I pay $29.99 for Verizon 3Meg and my co-worker pays $47.99 for the same service which all reps tell him that the $29.99 offer was only available for 1 year..But I've had mine for almost 4 years same price same package and he have it bundled with his phone as well as myself. | |
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Spiral
No Easy Way To Be Free.
Premium
join:2003-03-04
Baltimore, MD | Prequal The prequal tool only tells me that my line already has Verizon DSL. It doesn't tell me if it qualifies for 7.0 or not. I have 3.0, 9400 ft loop. | |
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ptrowski
Got Helix?
Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
clubs: | Re: Prequal I would ask in the Verizon Direct forum. I had the same issue when qualifying for AT&T. | |
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shoe1
join:2007-09-28
Colfax, CA
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April 7th, @05:09PM
| UGH...come on. Screw you Verizon! how about you offer 155k. 768k, 1.5, 3m speed to me. I live in a Urban area! 2,000 within 1-2 miles.
But no the best you can do is 23kbps over crappy landlines. | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net
| IMO... DSL blows  !We used to have DSL from the now defunct Bellsouth. We switched from Comcast because when we first had Comcast Digital voice, it completely sucked. We saw a commercial for a bundle with Bellsouth where on select tiers, you received a free DSL modem and $150 cash back when you switched from cable. So we called and got a landline with 5
calling features & unlimited local and long distance. For DSL, we got the fastest plan they had at the time, DSL extreme 3.0. All together, they said it would be $90 a month for DSL and Phone,around the same price as Comcast. When we set up our DSL, it was relatively fast. We were used to Comcast speed and it seemed to be slower than Comcast, but faster than dial-up. I did a speed test on the Bellsouth website and our speed was 1.5 Mbps! It was Half of the speed we were supposed to get and it was already half the speed of Comcast and for the same price! We called and after 45 minutes waiting on the phone, the CSR was thankfully able to fix the problem. I did a speed test and it was 2.5 Mbps; faster than it was but still slower than it should be. Then, we notice a problem with our connectivity. Our DSL would go out on us every 15-30 minutes  . This problem never got solved, even after a tech came out and added a charge of $50 to our already expensive bill. We tried to get the $150 cash back, they disputed it, saying we put it in the mail to late and that we were not eligible to receive it. The final nail in the coffin was the bill. They said it would be $90 a month, well it was $135 a month on average, the same price we paid for TV, Phone and Internet with Comcast.The month the tech came out, the bill was $185. When our DSL kept going out even after the tech came out, we cancelled our Bellsouth service and switched back to Comcast. In the 4 months we had Bellsouth, Comcast was able to fix all the problems with their phone service. Since we had to deal with alllllllll that trouble, I have sworn to never use Bellsouth/at&t again! | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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April 7th, @06:08PM
| Re: IMO... Well, the problem seems as much with Bellsouth doing a crappy job and charging ludicrously high prices... but DSL can be a good service if done correctly. When I had Verizon DSL the only problem I recall having that was Verizon's fault was that it wasn't available for awhile after we moved to a different part of town... | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net
| Re: IMO... If I ever were to have another bell for service, it would be Verizon, as long as it's FIOS. From what I've heard, they have not done well maintaining their copper plant. And IF FIOS is ever here in Georgia, I just hope they fixed their billing  . | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Re: IMO... That's true about the copper- I got FiOS here as soon as it was available, I have no idea what DSL performance is like now. | |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
Iselin, NJ
clubs: | It would be nice If I could get DSL at my house in the first place. | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net
| Re: It would be nice At the very least, you aren't stuck with dial-up! You have the 6 Mbps Comcast tier... what's your actual speed though? Where I live there apparently aren't many cable subscribers so our internet speeds are super fast! Yesterday, I was able to get 30 Mbps down 3 up thanks to powerboost and 3 states worth of use going down  ! | |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
Iselin, NJ
clubs: | Re: It would be nice Our node is saturated, something like 250 customers on the node. I see PB up to 12mbps for the first 30-40mb of a file. Other than that my speeds are 6/1. | |
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anonomous
@comcast.net | Re: It would be nice It's no FIOS but hey it's better than dial-up and the slower DSL tiers . | |
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papi4baby
join:2008-01-19
Callaway, MD | Right... I would be happy if i could have their 3mg dsl service. Yet they advertised that all of Maryland would be covered by this time and date. But no.
P.S. I dont live in the boonies boonies either. | |
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join:2005-05-28
Dundalk, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Right... I live in Maryland also and I got bounced around to different departments and finally someone told me that the 7Mbps package is available in my area;However, I live 9,200ft from the CO and to qualify for the 7Mbps package, the distance is only up to 7,000ft from the CO. This is complete BS because people further away from the CO on my block have the 7Mbps package but not me. | |
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Verizon Expands 7Mbps DSL Coverage
