[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...

[Jim Kinney]

They are pushing this crap out to the business class as well. We noticed
a sudden, dramatic drop in speed and two weeks later to the day (hour!),
I get an offer to upgrade to higher speed service that comes with a new
modem device.

yeah.

And Google is pushing to have Comcast called a last mile wire provider
so Google can access the fiber and poles that Comcast and AT&T have a
lock on.

I'm not sure what is more of a concern, Comcast bad engineering and
total greed factor or Google's complete BigBrother take over of the
Internet.


On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 13:19 -0500, Michae


l H. Warfield 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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