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Posts: 5,525 | I've had it with Comcast! Since they rolled out Xfinity their service has been crap. Anyone have an alternative they'd recommend?
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Posts: 5,582 “an island in the Pacifi... | As it takes a lot of infrastructure to build a last mile network, your choices are probably very limited. In most areas your choice is either the cable or phone companies. US Sail Level 2 Instructor US Sail Level 3 Coach | | | Re: internet service
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Posts: 5,525 | It's looking that way, thanks.
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Posts: 9 Gulfport, MS | i had comcast for a year in Mobile, AL and it knocked the socks off this cableone garbage.
YMMV(obviously)
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Posts: 5,525 | Xfinitey is more than I want to pay, around $230/mo., I've no interest in 75% of the offerings and...it doesn't work! Some portion of it has been non-functioning from day 1.
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | Xfinitey is more than I want to pay, around $230/mo., I've no interest in 75% of the offerings and...it doesn't work! Some portion of it has been non-functioning from day 1. I have AT&T U-verse. It's expensive too - but it has been extremely more reliable than the offerings from the cable company for TV and Internet.
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Posts: 5,525 | Comcast was fine until they rolled out Xfinitey, which doesn't work, and increased my bill from $160 to $230 a month. My internet is now very, very, slow.
The money is an issue but my outrage is over the poor service. I'm not going to pay someone to beat me up!
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#235177 07/25/11 11:10 AM 07/25/11 11:10 AM |
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Posts: 5,582 “an island in the Pacifi... | Comcast was fine until they rolled out Xfinitey, which doesn't work, and increased my bill from $160 to $230 a month. My internet is now very, very, slow.
The money is an issue but my outrage is over the poor service. I'm not going to pay someone to beat me up! For that price they should supply hand maidens to do your typing for you. I pay Hawaiian Tel $30 for 7 meg, no data limit, service. If your wallet is resigned to paying that kinda money I'd look at a business circuit from your local phone company. The nice thing about biz lines is that they're symmetrical or the up load and download speeds are the same. US Sail Level 2 Instructor US Sail Level 3 Coach | | | Re: internet service
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Posts: 5,525 | No, we're not going to pay it at all. My CFO is doing the research now.
I carried a Mobil gas card for twenty years or more. Was never late with a payment, never carried a balance forward. One day (my boss happened to be riding with me) the card wouldn't work! To make a long story short, they just didn't want my business, weren't making enough money off me.
That seems to have worked fine for Mobil, maybe it will work for comcast. I just know I haven't bought Mobil products in years, not that they care.
There is always more than one source for anything...
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#235195 07/25/11 03:03 PM 07/25/11 03:03 PM |
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Posts: 1,403 | Then do what I did, just keep them for the internet and go with a HDTV antenna on top of your house for the local stuff and Dish or Direct... for all the other jazz....we did Direct. The over the air stuff is a better picture etc... they don't compress the signal....
And, we're thinking of canceling this as all the stuff is junk and doing more Net flicks...
Verizon is coming to town with Fiber Optic in a year or so.... can't wait!
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Posts: 5,525 | Net flicks will be taking a hell of hit from the producers soon. They had the market all to themselves, but no more.
But, I'm thinking along your lines.
I F@#%^%n hate commercials! I've almost stopped watching anything that hasn't been recorded, just so I can ff through the commercials. I'll bet half the 30 minutes alocated to the evening news are commercials.
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Posts: 5,582 “an island in the Pacifi... | Verizon is coming to town with Fiber Optic in a year or so.... can't wait! FIOS is not all that! It can be slow, tech support sucks, it's expensive, etc Plus, the equipment at your end requires power. If there's a power failure everything goes dead including the phone. US Sail Level 2 Instructor US Sail Level 3 Coach | | | Re: internet service
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | being a cheapskate, it would appear that an internet-ready HDTV and the HD antenna should take care of both local programming as well as downloaded content (movies, shows, etc).
I thought Hulu and other sites were free (or cheap) so you can download old TV series. Not sure about the commercials, Pete, but I'm with you on the saturation factor. It's about 9 minutes of adds per 30 minutes of TV
the other thing is everyone is turning off their land-line phones and using their cell (with unlimited minutes or night/weekend free) as their primary phone. A little issue that the local school districts are finding out is that the 2.5% surcharge on long distance calls from land lines isn't bringing in any more money these days, so Florida has frozen it's school construction fund...
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Posts: 5,525 | I like Hulu and Instant Net Flix.
Had never heard of an HD antenna, I'll check that out.
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