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Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
gently caress monopolies :( How am I supposed to make poo poo posts in my leisure time when I'm being given the runaround by tech support

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Nice Reddit Account
Nov 27, 2013

by XyloJW
How do I "upvote" the OP here?

Suicide Sam E.
Jun 30, 2013

by XyloJW

Blast of Confetti posted:

gently caress monopolies :( How am I supposed to make poo poo posts in my leisure time when I'm being given the runaround by tech support

You are hosed.

It took roughly three years before Comcast stopped giving us entirely lovely internet. I consider myself lucky.

jarjarbinksfan621
Mar 4, 2012
My buddy has the basic digital cable/broadband package from Comcast and it's loving blazing fast somehow. Download speed is like 10x what I get from my lovely ISP.

Raku
Nov 7, 2012

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Roll Tide

jarjarbinksfan621 posted:

My buddy has the basic digital cable/broadband package from Comcast and it's loving blazing fast somehow. Download speed is like 10x what I get from my lovely ISP.

They probably accidentally gave him excellent service out of incompetence. No seriously they might have given him the wrong setup or something and just never noticed because they're incompetent hacks

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Raku posted:

They probably accidentally gave him excellent service out of incompetence. No seriously they might have given him the wrong setup or something and just never noticed because they're incompetent hacks

Quite likely. They have failed me upward at least three times., which still doesn't compensate for their customer "service".

ColoradoCleric
Dec 26, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
For some reason I can get 20 mbp internet for $100 at my apartment but my parent's house only gets 10 mbp down the street.

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
ten thousand emptyquotes and I will hook the OP up with a fast and reliable internet service at an affordable rape

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

jarjarbinksfan621 posted:

My buddy has the basic digital cable/broadband package from Comcast and it's loving blazing fast somehow. Download speed is like 10x what I get from my lovely ISP.

Yeah. I've had Comcast for about a year. It's stupid fast, there are no limits, and now that I think about it my service has never been down other than a half day power outage a few months ago.

ColoradoCleric posted:

I can get 20 mbp internet for $100

Jesus. That's more than double what I pay. And I'm running faster than that.

Lord Frankenstyle fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Apr 1, 2014

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
google fiber

Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Google fiber sends information faster than the speed of light so I don't trust them to not collapse the entire universe in to a singularity while I'm trying to torrent uncensored japanese pornography

give me thread
Dec 29, 2008

ColoradoCleric posted:

For some reason I can get 20 mbp internet for $100 at my apartment but my parent's house only gets 10 mbp down the street.
What the gently caress? drat! guess I never realised how expensive internet is in the US. Sorry guys :(

curse of flubber
Mar 12, 2007
I CAN'T HELP BUT DERAIL THREADS WITH MY VERY PRESENCE

I ALSO HAVE A CLOUD OF DEDICATED IDIOTS FOLLOWING ME SHITTING UP EVERY THREAD I POST IN

IGNORE ME AND ANY DINOSAUR THAT FIGHTS WITH ME BECAUSE WE JUST CAN'T SHUT UP
Crack local wifi points and use Connectify Dispatch to link them all together for really fast and free internet.

Don't do this though you will go to prison for longer than a rich mass murderer.

Sojenus
Dec 28, 2008

i tried to switch to at&t a few weeks ago after our internet was down for two weeks due to comcast being a bunch of fucks

they somehow managed to send a technician out to install the poo poo, but didn't actually set up an account on their side so it didn't work. later i received mail from them with my name horribly misspelled, and they keep calling my work phone instead of the cell phone number i gave them, even after i immediately canceled with them because really guys

so what i'm saying is you're screwed even with options available hahaha

BLARGHLE
Oct 2, 2013

But I want something good
to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
Yams Fan
Comcast is poo poo all the way down. poo poo network, poo poo equipment, poo poo service, poo poo prices, poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo

As soon as Fios came to our area, comcast lost like half of its customers. Not saying that Fios is perfect or anything(especially with the sneaky limits they put in their routers), but it's miles better than comcast.

Hell, the cable internet I got in rural alabama(charter communications, I think?) was faster, cheaper, and infinitely more reliable than my suburban NoVa comcast ever was. It got so bad that it wouldn't stay online for more than 20 minutes at a time, even after they came out and replaced the modem and router.

gently caress comcast, and gently caress oligopolies.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



my cox contract predates bandwidth limits but they still email me once a month for going over 250gb and beg me to please pay more or face no consequences at all

there's a little meter and everything

Mineaiki
Nov 20, 2013

BLARGHLE posted:

Hell, the cable internet I got in rural alabama(charter communications, I think?) was faster, cheaper, and infinitely more reliable than my suburban NoVa comcast ever was. It got so bad that it wouldn't stay online for more than 20 minutes at a time, even after they came out and replaced the modem and router.

Well you pretty much deserve that for living in suburban NoVA, filth.

ColoradoCleric
Dec 26, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
The future is high speed internet and cloud computing where you instantly hit your cap of 5 gigs in 1 second downloading all your homework and work files.

Mineaiki
Nov 20, 2013

And only death can spare you from Google's spam.

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Comcast is now a nesscary evil in my life.

Century Link charges $55 a month for 12/1, while Comcast is 50/10 for $58

I really hope I made the right choice here :(

drquasius
Dec 25, 2004
I finally got rid of Comcast when they wouldn't replace the cable that runs from the pole to my house, even though the insulation was falling off of it in strips. My internet went out every time it rained and they would blame it on my modem. They refused to send out a tech. Jesus guys, that cable was installed 40 years ago. One day I finally said gently caress this, and took everything down to their office and canceled. I'm lucky Tacoma has two cable companies.

kojei
Feb 12, 2008
I get 120/20 from comcast and only pay for 50/10. I make sure to avoid mentioning this any time I have to call them up because I'm afraid they'll gently caress my speed down to like 56k to make up for lost time

I also blow through their bandwidth "limit" like that dude further up the thread but they don't seem to give a singular poo poo

Mineaiki
Nov 20, 2013

stringball posted:

Comcast is now a nesscary evil in my life.

Century Link charges $55 a month for 12/1, while Comcast is 50/10 for $58

I really hope I made the right choice here :(

Well I mean you're only going to get about 15/.01 with Comcast either way, so...

drquasius
Dec 25, 2004

kharaa posted:

I get 120/20 from comcast and only pay for 50/10. I make sure to avoid mentioning this any time I have to call them up because I'm afraid they'll gently caress my speed down to like 56k to make up for lost time

I also blow through their bandwidth "limit" like that dude further up the thread but they don't seem to give a singular poo poo

Yeah, my friend has the same thing. He's paying for Blast Plus, which is 50/10 but is getting 120/20. Comcast quite often sends the wrong boot file.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Ignoarints
Nov 26, 2010
my only internet choice here is time warner, despite being in a loving major city, its just how they worked it out with this apartment complex. Unsurprisingly, the service is more expensive and shittier than if I lived one block down the street

THE FREE MARKET WILL PROVIDE

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
ya, at least your major city didn't work out an exclusivity contract with comcast

city of boston has no verizon because verizon couldnt even come here if they wanted to

ffs

a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
comcast owns i pay 60$ a month and download at 6mbps constant. as long as you just get internet and NOTHING else they are great.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004




it was better when all their broadband stuff was branded cox@home

get cox@home today

Taima
Dec 31, 2006

tfw you're peeing next to someone in the lineup and they don't know
Comcast is kind of expensive here I guess (like 70$ for 50mbs?) but honestly it pretty much rules, latency is excellent and there's no cap at all.

The only time I hated Comcast was when I was trying to get them to turn off the router function on their box (so I could use my better one) and I'm pretty sure I gave a dude in India an actual panic attack because he had literally no idea what was going on and eventually started freaking out and I had to hang up because it was unbelievably awkward.

kojei
Feb 12, 2008

a creepy colon posted:

comcast owns i pay 60$ a month and download at 6mbps constant. as long as you just get internet and NOTHING else they are great.

holy poo poo you're getting your rear end reamed

drquasius
Dec 25, 2004

a creepy colon posted:

comcast owns i pay 60$ a month and download at 6mbps constant. as long as you just get internet and NOTHING else they are great.

I'm paying $30 for 6mbps via cable. I can bump it up to 12mbps for $40. At speed you might do better paying for dsl.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
Im sure he was just kidding

a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

kharaa posted:

holy poo poo you're getting your rear end reamed

am I? im just judging it off my bit torrent down speeds honestly. they call me all the time and ask if i want to unlock like the SUPER Speed for 10$ more a month but i never do it because I dont really need anymore bandwith

kojei
Feb 12, 2008

a creepy colon posted:

am I? im just judging it off my bit torrent down speeds honestly. they call me all the time and ask if i want to unlock like the SUPER Speed for 10$ more a month but i never do it because I dont really need anymore bandwith

you should be getting 50mbit with that price, call them up and have some stern words with an indian until they fix that poo poo, jesus christ

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


I'm paying $45 for 6/1. But at least it isn't Comcast. It's just some local isp so hodunk that they don't even verify any information when I call up about billing or whatever, which is kinda concerning.

Cockblocktopus
Apr 18, 2009

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.


I'm in a Comcast-only area. At least since Netflix paid them out the rear end to throttle their signals less, my Netflix has been beautiful. That's 60-70% of my internet usage anyway so my life could be worse.

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



comcast dmca'd me and now i can't use bittorrent ever again. gently caress comcast.

Smarmy Coworker
May 10, 2008

by XyloJW
get broadband / phone line package

bitch

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a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

kharaa posted:

you should be getting 50mbit with that price, call them up and have some stern words with an indian until they fix that poo poo, jesus christ

Yeah i decided to check it out:



I think im ok

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