Comcast Screw Job!

[DOC]

Do you use peerblock? If not you should... google is your friend.

[Irving]

I feel like I should clarify this. Torrents don't define my usage, I know what they are and that is the only example I could think of to show actual down load speed. You can do a speed test all day long and it will tell you what you are capable of reaching, but in your normal browsing, there is nothing that would indicate how fast your connection is.

[DOC]

Peerblock blocks bad torrent servers and other jerks like lawyers and makes your dl faster as a result because you don't have to redownload a packet. I think my speed got at high as 2mbps and averages about 1mb if there are a lot of peers. Peerblock can update itsself and be turned off easily too but if your using a torrent or limewire or whatever you should run this at the same time.

[TS12000]

Just figured you may have had the same type of problems I had (at least as far as the hard resets go). Beyond that I couldn't tell you much as I'm not exactly an IT guy

On another note, I get comcasts "basic" with no box, I think it's a way of pursuading people to upgrade because it's about 80% spanish and church channels.

[rforsythe]

Man we got rid of comcast here the year they started using the boxes. Since then we have had DirecTV. If you do get DirecTV, tell the installer to put the dish on the ground and not the roof. It makes brushing of the snow easier.

Mine's on the roof, but for the two times a year I need to brush the dish off I just have one of those telescoping painter's poles with a shop brush taped to the end. Very quick and easy.

The boxes are annoying but don't bother me too much. What DOES bother me, is that I have to "power cycle" my modem and wireless router nearly every single day (many times at 3+ more times a day) to keep an internet signal. I've had Comcast out more than once for this. They can't tell me what is wrong. All I know is that for whatever it is I'm paying for internet, I sure as hell shouldn't have to unplug my equipment several times a day to get service. Oh yeah, and this is like the 3rd modem I've had in two years as well.

I had that issue too, got so bad I couldn't be on call for work anymore.

Ditching Comcast was one of the better things we've done in the past few years. We did the Qwest bundle thing, so DirecTV and DSL, and been very happy. The one time I had an issue with my DSL, the tech decided he didn't like the equipment I was provisioned on and put me on a new switch, upgraded my speed at no charge, and gave me a new modem. Contrast that with Comcast, who when told of my Internet woes (not to mention crappy TV signal, but I hadn't even made it that far yet) came out, told me it was my problem, and tried to charge me $85 for the trouble. Oh and the shitty signal? I found my line, strung across a neighbor's fence out back with a bad splice - I brought this to their attention and they denied that a crappy splice job hanging down low enough to sit in snow and rain could ever cause signal degradation.

Never going back to those idiots again.

[sniper7]

I really hate comcast TV. I have them for internet and don't really have any complaints other than it is expensive but so is everything else.

we have direct tv and so far it has been great for the ~1 year we have had it.

If you go for directTV send me a PM and I will give you my account number so we can both get $100 off! ($10 for 10 months)

[DOC]

OK guys with the dish I have a question. What if you put a black trash bag over the dish? Will you still get a signal? Will the snow not accumulate and just slide off?

I have had to reboot my modem twice a day when they "upgraded" me for free plus $12 a month from 6mbps to 12. I had them out 3 times and everytime it nothing got done right but each person did it differently. I got some nice discounts for their incompetence and being late. But they sheilded the signal pretty much to keep out cross talk and alien cross talk. Rechecked all the line connections going to the pole. For a while I was testing out at 15mbps dl and 8-10 upload then 12 DL which is all they promised with 2 mbps upload. Something was wrong and the last time they did something right and wrong because now I get 23 mbps DL and 4 mbs upload. I was happy the first time with the first results except the modem needed to be reset twice a day and I had to go down stairs to the back office to get to it. Not happy with that. But now its reliable although something is keeping the upload speed down. In reality just knock a zero off the end of the advertised speed to find out what your real speed is. 4 mbps = 400 kbps 22 mbps = 2.2 mbps...

[trlcavscout]

Wow you guys must have some shitty service wherever you live. In greeley 25-30 is average on their 12 meg service. Course maybe you all have e-machines and ran your own wiring?

[DOC]

We do have to pool the internet service so depending on many people are using it at the time of the test it maybe good or bad. What do you mean run your own wire? Cat 3 for the win.

[trlcavscout]

We do have to pool the internet service so depending on many people are using it at the time of the test it maybe good or bad. What do you mean run your own wire? Cat 3 for the win.

Crappy gold splitters, rca radio shack etc. Pre terminated cable from walmart radio shack etc. Most of the problems we fix are caused by people hooking up crap splitters or cable, half the people hook them up wrong. Your speed test results will vary greatly on how many people are useing that speed test. Try speedtest.comcast.net