 brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL
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November 24th, @11:01AM
| cool Now please increase the high tiers now. Thanks | |
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Matt
You can't fix stupid
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
 ·Corporate Colocation
| Re: cool said by brianiscool  :Now please increase the high tears now. Thanks I don't think a free speed increase would make anyone cry. | |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| Re: cool said by Matt :said by brianiscool :Now please increase the high tears now. Thanks I don't think a free speed increase would make anyone cry. except for the **AA's | |
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Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | Re: cool The MafIAA can kiss my fat ass.
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ptrowski
Got Helix?
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join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
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Matt
You can't fix stupid
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
·Corporate Colocation
| Re: cool said by ptrowski :Tears huh? Tiers is repeated 6 times in the body of the article and is of course in the title. Wow, just .... wow. | |
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA | They doubled them last month. Check the news archive. | |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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| Re: cool said by Cabal :They doubled them last month. Check the news archive. Did they? I am still only getting 8mbps down..... | |
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baineschile
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Just wait for DOCSIS 3.0 in your area....should be in most of the footprint by the end of 09 | |
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| kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR | How about that upload eh? laughable... | |
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oldcomcastuser
@bellsouth.net
| in the old days Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight. After that the service never worked right again. I got rid of it and tried again two years later after comcast had freed themselves from att. Service was horrible it only worked one day out of every month. FOUR ENGINEERS came out here and stared at blueprints for hours at a time and couldn't figure it out. I got rid of the service again and stuck to dialup after that.
Now I'm using komrade phone company dsl... the possible small caps and also the slimy way I was sold the current service are forcing me to consider comcast again because after december I will have to pay 32.95 just for dsl not counting my phone plan which I had to slim down to just basic service to keep the phone and dsl bill together lower than $60 a month.
My neigbors have been using comcast internet for about two years now and it works for them. We all live in the same apt complex so it should work for me now too. I think a while back some storm took out the cable and comcast finally had to replace something important but very old and thats maybe why my neighbor gets good signal lol.
How much is comcast internet at the "economy" price bundled with phone service anyway? | |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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| Re: in the old days said by oldcomcastuser :
Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight. After that the service never worked right again. I got rid of it and tried again two years later after comcast had freed themselves from att. Service was horrible it only worked one day out of every month. FOUR ENGINEERS came out here and stared at blueprints for hours at a time and couldn't figure it out. I got rid of the service again and stuck to dialup after that.
Now I'm using komrade phone company dsl... the possible small caps and also the slimy way I was sold the current service are forcing me to consider comcast again because after december I will have to pay 32.95 just for dsl not counting my phone plan which I had to slim down to just basic service to keep the phone and dsl bill together lower than $60 a month.
My neigbors have been using comcast internet for about two years now and it works for them. We all live in the same apt complex so it should work for me now too. I think a while back some storm took out the cable and comcast finally had to replace something important but very old and thats maybe why my neighbor gets good signal lol.
How much is comcast internet at the "economy" price bundled with phone service anyway?
AT&T didn't buy Comcast.... | |
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| | elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
·SONIC.NET
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·MM INTERNET, INC.
| Re: in the old days said by Cheese :said by oldcomcastuser :
Back in 2000 I signed up for comcast cable internet and it was great... great until att bought comcast and switched er... screwed up all the customers overnight.
AT&T didn't buy Comcast.... Well, they bought Media One, and Comcast gave them much of their subscriber base as the result of that transaction.
For most of the victims of the exchange, "AT&T bought Comcast" is an apt description. | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: in the old days Nearly as I can tell, MediaOne was spun off by Baby Bell US West (which was then bought by Qwest), and bought by AT&T. Then AT&T created "AT&T Broadband Internet" (ATTBI) to form a partnership with Comcast. In the end, ATTBI (not AT&T Corporation) was bought by Comcast.
It is a hell of a lot easier to sort out the inbreeding in the Ptolemaic family line (Cleopatra VII had only six great-grandparents; most people have sixteen) than it is to sort out the inbreeding in the telecom industry!
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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| Tigerpaw509
Premium
join:2006-07-15
Huntley, IL | ATT didnt buy comcast it was ATT sold catv to comcast | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| margins Let me ask the important question.. after they did all the provisioning of the extra bandwidth.. did they actually go out and upgrade any external plant nodes that were already maxxed out(aka oversold) with customers?
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
·WOW Internet and C..
| Re: margins said by tmc8080 :did they actually go out and upgrade any external plant nodes that were already maxxed out(aka oversold) with customers? Why would they do out and do anything to equipment that only converts light to RF and vice versa? The node isn't the bottleneck, it's much further up the pipeline. All that work is done in the head end. | |
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jester121
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
 ·ViaTalk
| AT&T has to make new commercials now... Around Chicago AT&T has been advertising "internet that's 26 times faster than Comcast!"
Of course, they're comparing Uverse's fastest 18Mbps (sometimes, maybe) with the slowest possible Comcast (was 768k).  | |
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hdtvtechno22
join:2008-08-22
Chicago, IL
| Re: AT&T has to make new commercials now... said by jester121 :Around Chicago AT&T has been advertising "internet that's 26 times faster than Comcast!" Of course, they're comparing Uverse's fastest 18Mbps (sometimes, maybe) with the slowest possible Comcast (was 768k). But nobody in the city limits in actually chicago can get U-verse to my knowledge right now..
including myself.. 
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | oh BOY! a whole 256 kbps increase. What am I going to do with all this speed?
Uhm, fellas....AT&T DSL at 19.95 a month and Verizon DSL offering 3.0/768 for 5 dollars more are MUCH better deals! | |
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| aparis99
join:2006-10-24
Owensboro, KY | Re: oh BOY! most people have the economy package for a reason. if all you do is check email daily and watch stocks, i'm sure you wont mind.
if you get this package for downloading movies and music, then you're in the wrong one... | |
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up2late
join:2008-11-30
West Lafayette, IN
| Doesn't match up with what I just received from Comcast. we were insight subscribers, and very happy. We were getting the 10M speeds.
Since the changeover, rates are increasing and getting less for it. Since the changeover to Comcast, our speeds have dropped ~ a lot! today's speed test:4m/1m According to the brochure we were just sent, with the rate increases, we should be getting 6M/1M
It has been crawling all weekend, sometimes even timing out on getting email.
The "economy internet" (768kps/384kps) is $39.95! This brochure was in yesterday's mail. | |
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Comcast Speeds Up Economy Tier
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Dumb Comcast pricing structure.