[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...

[Pete Hardie]

I'm not a fan of the forced donation of power for hotspots either, but so
far for me Comcast has been less of a liar than AT&T, whose DSL offering
maxed out at 1.5M, and who was willing to keep telling me to reset my
equipment when a simple check of their equipment would clear out the
problem....

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
wrote:

> [Disclaimer]
>
> I gave up on Comcast years ago.  Even if they offered me twice the
> bandwidth they do now at half the price they do now, I would refuse.  I
> got tired of all the lies they told me (multiple documented occasions)
> years ago.  I can tolerate incompetence or ignorance but malice
> aforethought will not stand.  I have plenty of bitching points with ATT
> Uverse but, at least, willful lies are not one of them...
>
> That all being said...
>
> [/Disclaimer]
>
> The saga of Comcast using your premises and your electricity to promote
> THEIR wifi services is well documented.  I saw this first hand just this
> last month where the clutter of Xfiniti public access points (on all
> possible channels) were drowning out (beaconing) the legitimate services
> in a residential neighborhood, making non-xfiniti services unreliable
> even within a single home where we were staying.
>
> The horror stories of their so called "customer support" is also well
> documented...  Safe advice is now to ALWAYS record any support call with
> Comcast...  Latest in that saga...
>
>
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141231/01553029553/yet-another-horrible-comcast-customer-service-experience-goes-viral.shtml
>
> Now, they are increasing your "rental fees" by 25% for the privilege of
> providing their "service" to their customers using your facilities.  The
> rental fee on "their" cable modem is going up...
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/on-comcast-buy-your-own-modem/
>
> I still have a couple of my old DOCSIS 2 modems from the last time I was
> wasting my time with Comicalcast.  But now, at $120 a year to rent their
> "we advertise our own open service from your property" modems, why is
> anyone still renting their modems?  Morotola DOCSIS 3 cable modems are
> starting around $70 on Amazon?  That's what?  7 MONTHS return on
> investment?!?!  And you are not providing them with free electricity and
> facilities for their network or cluttering the air with their access
> point beacons.  How do they continue to get away with this???
>
> Mike
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