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I'd rather be new 2 comcast than transitioned.I'm glad your happy with your service. Many people who are coming from 56k, or bad DSL providers to Comcast (post transition) think the service is great. You get what you are paying for (for the most part), in near 1500/128. However, everyone should understand why a good amount of past Comcast@Home customers are complaining about their service. I for one was in the Hershey, PA area with Comcast since this past July. My download speeds through them were 2900/128 CONSTANTLY. Hershey had its own node, and not many people used it. No matter what time of day you did a speed test, it would be in the 2700 to 2900 download range.
Also, my ping times were OUTSTANDING. You have to remember, we are not paying the 150+ dollars people with great ISP's like Megapath and Speakeasy are, yet alot of us with Comcast@Home got equivilent ping times, and twice as much download bandwidth. I was routed locally, and I pinged 20-30 to all of my favorite gaming servers.
So look at it like this, for under 40 dollars I was (and many people were) getting 2900/128 speeds and 20-30 pings to their favorite gaming servers at ALL times during the day or night.
Now I am getting 1300/120 speeds and 70-100 pings on all of those same servers. I am being routed through Chicago, instead of locally, and my service has gone up 5 dollars a month.
People who made the switch, or are new to the service, and have a more reliable connection: God bless you, your lucky. But there are alot more of us out there who got the shaft by this new service. Being spoiled with the 2900kbit downloads and 20 pings now is making me considering switching to Speakeasy to get the 15-25ms pings back, even if I have to pay 149 a month.
I do have to say, regardless of how much worse my service is now than what I had, it's still better than Verizon Online DSL.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark R.
Hershey, PA |
