[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...
Dustin Strickland
dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 23:34:10 EST 2015
Steve,
If you have a Technicolor gateway those are known to have problems
with VPNs, Chromecast, multicast packets and bridge mode. Swap out your
equipment, specifically request an Arris because you're using a VPN.
SMC's also have some quirks.
On 2015-01-29 23:19, Steve Nicholas wrote:
> I did get their new modem and enjoy the 50 mps. I forced them to turn
> off me being a hot spot. Kind of pain, but they did it. But it
> killed my wireless off of their gateway. I connected my Netgear router
> to their gateway and all is good. Am running into a problem trying to
> do vpn. Traceroute shows I'm not getting out of the house.
> Investigating. If Comcast raises their prices, TV and phone will go
> away in a heartbeat. Now that it has been announced that Google fiber
> is coming to Atlanta and some metro, it will be interesting to see how
> both Comcast and ATT react. So glad to see additional competition.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com
> <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Just ran into this and had to throw it in here somewhere. Just one
> of those it's funny but, not so funny.
> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/spokane-washington-woman-updates-on-comcast-ahole-debacle/
>
> (yes you're reading the text for the link correct, but what was on
> the paper bill did not mask over any spelling.)
>
>
> On 01/04/2015 08:06 PM, Edward Holcroft wrote:
>
> As much as I detest them and their ways, I use their business
> product extensively in our regional offices. When I switched
> from Qwest, I increased the office bandwidth 10x for less than
> half the cost we were paying for a single T1 at the time.
> That's hard to argue against. I saved my company $150k per
> annum in one fell swoop. And believe me, Qwest (now Century
> Link) were no angels either, they f!@#ed us over to the tune
> of $60k through bad billing over a period of several months
> that slipped through the cracks ... I will NEVER touch them
> again. We were never able to recover the money and my company
> was unwilling to play hardball out of fear of getting 18
> offices disconnected.
>
> I guess that makes me a bit of a sell-out to the Comcast
> bad-boys :-( But ... it could always be be worse ...
>
> ed
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Michael H. Warfield
> <mhw at wittsend.com <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>
> <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com <mailto: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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