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Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

Rahu posted:

Try purchasing an internet connection from a company that doesn't hate you.

I recently did this and it has been a good experience so far.

AT&T and Comcast have a duopoly in my area, they are both capped, and there's nothing to switch to.

i do have the option of giving them twice as much money for an uncapped business class internet (with a bonus two year contract)

my for real options are to pay up, or move to another area, and nobody's doing that over the internet. i'd rather stop using it

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Fansy
Feb 26, 2013

I GAVE LOWTAX COOKIE MONEY TO CHANGE YOUR STUPID AVATAR GO FUCK YOURSELF DUDE
Grimey Drawer
Sorry to hear about your issues! We here at xfinity Comcast NBC are working hard to bring you the FASTEST internet at the LOWEST price.

If you're against data caps, tell those phoney tech-wannabes in washington to take a hike along with their ridiculous net neutrality regulations, so we can bring you the best HD content at blazing fast speeds.

Since you've complained in a public space, we're giving you $10 off an upgrade to Digital Blast Triple Pay edition, which comes bundled with a phone line and free* calls on evenings and weekends!

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

dad gay. so what posted:

this thread is pretty bad but I like to post so :shrug:

yeah that's pretty much how i feel about all of my threads

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

... but i didn't know you felt that way about my threads...

man...

Zeluth
May 12, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
My weird thing is having my Samsung LED backlight tv go blank unless I unplug it.

Comcast has services. They want you to rent new equipment and get a phone. I like those people who try to be nice.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger
My home internet is a 30 mbps connection capped at 10 GB/month with $10/GB overages. I live in America and this is the only non dialup or satellite option available at my home. I browse the web with images disabled and carefully ration my 144p Youtube viewing time.

Evil Agita
Feb 25, 2005

Lord Fool, give me another chance. I'll prove my strength to you!
if you post this on reddit it'll probably go viral or something idk

johnny sack
Jan 30, 2004

One day, this team will play to their expectations...

Just not this year..

Top Bunk Wanker posted:

My home internet is a 30 mbps connection capped at 10 GB/month with $10/GB overages. I live in America and this is the only non dialup or satellite option available at my home. I browse the web with images disabled and carefully ration my 144p Youtube viewing time.

$10/GB overage :monocle: Holy gently caress.

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
i dont even have a cap on my mobile bandwidth op lol

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

johnny sack posted:

$10/GB overage :monocle: Holy gently caress.

thats almost what my lovely cell provider wants.. only a bit lower.. by about 90% :sigh:

Fauxtool
Oct 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
600gb is alot of data. I download 720p porn non stop and never get anywhere close to that. You need to give your wang a break bro

Khorne
May 1, 2002
At least they let you pay overages now. Before they'd just ban you from their service for a year or three or something.

There are no other viable providers in lots of the US. DSL? Half of 56k speed with 20%+ packet loss and 300+ms latency on the first hop. I live in a populated city where no one has dsl.

You pretty much have to go Comcast business if you go anywhere near the cap because they don't even up the cap on their faster plans. Which makes no sense at all.

There's fios 5 minutes from me.

zooted heh
Oct 16, 2005

str8 mercin burgers my nigga

Booblord Zagats posted:

I'm on Cox so I do not have this problems

this. cox internet is prett6 legit and theres no cap. im worried that whenever i move out of the area i will have to settle for comcast.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

centurylink aint that bad

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
My only providers are att and cox and neither are capped. 50/mo for 50mbps going up to 150 for like 80. Seems reasonable.

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

Hobohemian posted:

My only providers are att and cox and neither are capped. 50/mo for 50mbps going up to 150 for like 80. Seems reasonable.

First they came for Comcast, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not Comcastic.

Then they came for AT&T, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a DSL user.

Then they came for the Cox, and I liked that—

Sammus
Nov 30, 2005

Booblord Zagats posted:

I'm on Cox so I do not have this problems

Same. They say I have a 350gb cap on their website, but I managed to burn through over a TB watching tv in march and they never said poo poo.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger
Frankly, I remember when people would complain about having 250 GB caps on their cable internet back in 2001, and I can't help laughing quietly to myself.

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

Top Bunk Wanker posted:

Frankly, I remember when people would complain about having 250 GB caps on their cable internet back in 2001, and I can't help laughing quietly to myself.

idiots watch a lot of cardashians i think

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

TwoFire posted:

idiots watch a lot of cardashians i think

it's kaitlin kardashian, loving homophobe

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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300 gb per month of forum posts is a lot op

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
Yeah well ATT all I can get is 150mbs and I never get close to that 250gb cap

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

Mandator posted:

it's kaitlin kardashian, loving homophobe

wait i am a gay hater because i don't watch e? whats your job at viacom, huh!?

somethingawful bf
Jun 17, 2005
that's a lot of porn, op

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

here's the thing, i have a router with tomato software and its' data does not match up with comcast's meter. not even a little bit.

and that makes sense because we just watch netflix, hulu, and porn. it's not even high quality porn, just normal low quality streaming stuf

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
So, you've just been bending over and taking comcasts dick without even fighting?




Heres you: " okaay :smith:"

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



So is this the part of the thread where someone comes in and gushes about having Google Fiber or how Google Fiber's coming to their hood or how they wished Google Fiber would come to their hood?

E: I wish municipal fiber was more of a thing. I hear EPB's got some good poo poo, but I'm nowhere near Chattanooga.

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

Johnny Aztec posted:

So, you've just been bending over and taking comcasts dick without even fighting?




Heres you: " okaay :smith:"

I've been fighting. I just think they have me by the short hairs since there's no local competition besides AT&T and they charge more and provide less.

Are there some sort of secret ISPs I don't know about?

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
I am so mad at this thread. 250gb caps in 2001? The majority of plans here today are 50gb or LESS capped and you pay through the loving nose for it. I'm on the highest speed unlimited broadband plan I could get here. Took me 6 weeks to get connected in the first place and several hundreds of dollars. My connection routinely drops and I routinely get speeds barely above 1990s dial up. Babies!

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
I worked for a Comcast cable contractor as a service tech. I never even got an email address, just a heavy chirp phone. Got paid piecemeal for installations and it seems I got assigned a lot of lovely haunted houses that need a new cable drop and rewiring/connecting new rooms; some took a half a day when the usual visit can't exceed 30 minutes if you want to make any money.
Made less than minimum some weeks.

I'll still gladly accept your goatse if you can kindly post it in this thread.

hip check please
Jan 11, 2012

Funky See Funky Do posted:

I am so mad at this thread. 250gb caps in 2001? The majority of plans here today are 50gb or LESS capped and you pay through the loving nose for it. I'm on the highest speed unlimited broadband plan I could get here. Took me 6 weeks to get connected in the first place and several hundreds of dollars. My connection routinely drops and I routinely get speeds barely above 1990s dial up. Babies!

Sup Australian

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

Champenema posted:

I worked for a Comcast cable contractor as a service tech. I never even got an email address, just a heavy chirp phone. Got paid piecemeal for installations and it seems I got assigned a lot of lovely haunted houses that need a new cable drop and rewiring/connecting new rooms; some took a half a day when the usual visit can't exceed 30 minutes if you want to make any money.
Made less than minimum some weeks.

I'll still gladly accept your goatse if you can kindly post it in this thread.

i'm not sure what your point is. it sounds like you were treated horribly as a comcast "contractor" and yet you still want me to post goatse in this thread so i get banned?

loving comcast employees, always trying to gently caress you over

Corn Glizzy
Jun 28, 2007



Comcast hasn't capped me yet, but when they do I'll just threaten to go to FIOS or Century Link until they gently caress off

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
"Your call is important to us. Please hold for the next available customer service representative ( then hold music intentionally made to invoke rage for 18 minutes)" On my dime, gently caress.
Isn't Facebook gonna launch a fleet of drones to provide free wifi?

Also, buy me plat & msg me. I will gently caress you over and under. Reasonable rates.

nullEntityRNG
Jun 23, 2010

Mostly pseudo-random.

Fansy posted:

Sorry to hear about your issues! We here at xfinity Comcast NBC are working hard to bring you the FASTEST internet at the LOWEST price.

If you're against data caps, tell those phoney tech-wannabes in washington to take a hike along with their ridiculous net neutrality regulations, so we can bring you the best HD content at blazing fast speeds.

Since you've complained in a public space, we're giving you $10 off an upgrade to Digital Blast Triple Pay edition, which comes bundled with a phone line and free* calls on evenings and weekends!



As much as this satire, I wouldn't give them any ideas.

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

i recently got unlimited internet for the first time ever and i cannot believe it. im downloading all day and night i cant trear myself away from the computer i need hekpo please someone elp

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

every second im not downloading it feels like im wasting precious unlimited download. it didnt set me free it enslaved me that much more. i cant stop scratching

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
Besides calling customer service, because that's a nightmare, how do I find out if I have a cap on my internet? I don't think I'd go through it, because I just use the web and watch porn a few times a day, and play online games with my PS4, but I'd still like to know.

I have TW Cable internet with the fastest option, if that helps.

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

The Rage posted:

Comcast hasn't capped me yet, but when they do I'll just threaten to go to FIOS or Century Link until they gently caress off
There's no reason not to get onto Frontier and stop giving comcrap money.

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

criscodisco posted:

Besides calling customer service, because that's a nightmare, how do I find out if I have a cap on my internet? I don't think I'd go through it, because I just use the web and watch porn a few times a day, and play online games with my PS4, but I'd still like to know.

I have TW Cable internet with the fastest option, if that helps.

download a torrent for every season of Star Trek in HD, then check your bill at the end of the month

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