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join:1999-10-25
Lafayette Hill, PA
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Maybe me too? Mattman-
I've had a contact at Comcast since about March 2001 when i first started asking about it -- she finally emailed me last week and said my area was up -- if you go to their site - it still tells you that you can't get it -- so maybe they're waiting to get all the kinks worked out (like the ones I had)-- i'm in Dresher -- they just rolled out service in my area, Ambler, and in Springfield and Whitemarsh townships.. I was in one of the old Adelphia areas that got switched over at the beginning of the year..
I'd say give em a call... | |
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mattman
join:1999-10-25
Lafayette Hill, PA
| Re: Maybe me too? Thanks - Im in Whitemarsh township, so this looks promising. Would you mind giving me this contacts email address, because I always get stonewalled when I call comcast about service. You could email it or pm it to me if you don't want to post it on the public forum. Thanks | |
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Maybe me too? Mattman -- since I didn't want to give out her email address, I asked her for you myself.. here is the reply I just received:
"Also, two-way service is available in Lafayette Hill. If you provide me
with an address, I can confirm availability or your friend can call our
customer service number at 1-800-220-7920."
So it looks like you're finally in business too! | |
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE | Mattman-
You can get the service in L'Hill.... she confirmed it for me! And you just need to call and sign up! | |
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mattman
join:1999-10-25
Lafayette Hill, PA
| Re: Maybe me too? Thanks Jeep Matt. Just got home from Orlando, Fl this evening, will call tomorrow (Sunday) and order it! Did you do the self install or the pro install? I'm leaning towards the pro install, that way I can have them run a fresh drop right to the computer. I guess it all depends on how long it takes to get an appointment. Thanks | |
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE | Re: Maybe me too? Whoa -- thats crazy -- i'm going to Orlando next saturday for a week!
I did the self-install -- was way too easy - and my friends ran a fresh cable line into my den for me..
Hope everyting works out for you. | |
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| Zukimanus8
join:2002-03-13
North Augusta, SC
|  Transition for the better.
ps. I was also spoiled by the high speed connectivity about 2 years ago. I was a beta tester for my area and must have been close to the only one on my node. I didn't know about the dsl speed test at the time but my downloads were in excess of 500 kbs from about anywhere that wasn't conjested. | |
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AdamE
@dialinx.net
| I need to know! I'm in Collegeville and bought a Self Install Kit at the King of Prussia Mall ($50 for Modem, software and splitter with $100 rebate). I called to have it provisioned 9 days ago (Dec 20) and am still waiting.
How long did it take for guys? What number did you call?
Comcast just keeps lying to me. | |
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NPire
join:2001-05-01
New York, NY | Re: I need to know! | |
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE | Re: I need to know! I live in Dresher -- i got provisioned instantly this past week -- not sure why they're giving you guys a runaround!
I'm up and running perfect. | |
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mjritche
join:2001-07-09
Hershey, PA
| I'd rather be new 2 comcast than transitioned. I'm glad your happy with your service. Many people who are coming from 56k, or bad DSL providers to Comcast (post transition) think the service is great. You get what you are paying for (for the most part), in near 1500/128. However, everyone should understand why a good amount of past Comcast@Home customers are complaining about their service. I for one was in the Hershey, PA area with Comcast since this past July. My download speeds through them were 2900/128 CONSTANTLY. Hershey had its own node, and not many people used it. No matter what time of day you did a speed test, it would be in the 2700 to 2900 download range.
Also, my ping times were OUTSTANDING. You have to remember, we are not paying the 150+ dollars people with great ISP's like Megapath and Speakeasy are, yet alot of us with Comcast@Home got equivilent ping times, and twice as much download bandwidth. I was routed locally, and I pinged 20-30 to all of my favorite gaming servers.
So look at it like this, for under 40 dollars I was (and many people were) getting 2900/128 speeds and 20-30 pings to their favorite gaming servers at ALL times during the day or night.
Now I am getting 1300/120 speeds and 70-100 pings on all of those same servers. I am being routed through Chicago, instead of locally, and my service has gone up 5 dollars a month.
People who made the switch, or are new to the service, and have a more reliable connection: God bless you, your lucky. But there are alot more of us out there who got the shaft by this new service. Being spoiled with the 2900kbit downloads and 20 pings now is making me considering switching to Speakeasy to get the 15-25ms pings back, even if I have to pay 149 a month.
I do have to say, regardless of how much worse my service is now than what I had, it's still better than Verizon Online DSL.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark R.
Hershey, PA | |
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| finortis
join:2001-11-30
| Re: I'd rather be new 2 comcast than transitioned. $149 per month? Are you unable to get ADSL or hmm... The 608/128 RADSL package I signed up for is about $59 per month. The 1,500/128 package would be about $89 per month. Are you sure you weren't looking at Megapath's prices (which are a bit higher)? Or is it that you would need IDSL or something? | |
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mjritche
join:2001-07-09
Hershey, PA | Re: I'd rather be new 2 comcast than transitioned. 1.1Mbit/1.1Mbit Speakeasy and Megapath SDSL are in that price range.
-Mark R. | |
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| esteiro
join:2000-12-20
Harrison, NJ
| hi mjritche... Here in New Jersey download/upload speeds are cap like everywhere else... but the ping time still good
ICMP (ping) check
Minimum ping: 12 ms
Maximum ping: 27 ms
Ping stability:
14 16 19 23 27 19 18 20 13 12
My ping in all the eastern coast servers... are good 20-40 ping, I'm talking about Quake3 Arena, and Medal of Honor servers...  | |
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Kinslayer
join:2001-08-23
Flint, MI |  Some were faster yet!
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boneman
join:2002-03-15
Indianapolis, IN
| I registered Comcrap.com
and it usually times out ~
I did have the same IP for 3 years, now I've had 3 in 3 weeks. SUCK!
I registered comcrap.com, I think I'll put an oficial comcast sucks site up...
Who was the dumb@ss in charge of @home anyway? How could you run something like that into the ground? Jesus, where do they get these people? | |
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sdgeiger
join:2001-11-26
Phoenixville, PA
| Your Comcast Digital Voice review Hi Matt,
I was just reading through your Comcast Digital Voice review. The item I want to comment on is this statement:
"I was then able to plug my phone into the regular jack in the kitchen "
I have Vonage and I am also able to plug my phones into a regular jack. No hard wiring was required. All I had to do was plug in a phone into a jack, as long as I knew for certain the line was dead. To ensure it stays dead, I unplugged the Telco wires from the jacks in my box and put a lock on the box.
-Scott | |
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