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Comcast must die!

Schadenfroh

Elite Member
In no particular order:

-They give you a (4) hour arrival window and they are still late or don?t show up at all, not even bothering to call.
-You call them up after they did not show and they tell you that they do not have numbers for work orders and that they can schedule you a new work order about 2 weeks later to fix your problems.
-Your local channels are all fuzzy and snowy (bad picture at all the TVs in the home of my family/friends in the area). The Comcast tech says this is due to signals from a military base about 40 miles away.
-The rabbit ears antenna for the said local stations provide a far superior image and sound quality than the cable.
-You have to listen to a recording about how to hook up your cable modem to your computer and how to reset it before you get to talk to a human to set up a service call.
-The ComCast remote is terrible. No light, poor ergonomics, ugly, gray lettering on a dark background (brilliant).
-Your TV and Internet goes out randomly and without warning about three times a month for about 5 hours each time and never while you are asleep. All of your neighbors complain that their cable TV and broadband does not work either, but when each person calls them up, they say that it is a coincidence that all the houses are having an outage in that neighborhood and that there must be a problem between each house and the pole.
-You are very happy when you find out that the repair crew is a contractor and does not work for Comcast. This means the job will get done right.
-Its ComCastic!


I must now switch to Direct TV and DSL.
 
I do like the "Military Base" answer to the reception problems. By chance, did they reference any "secret dark projects" at Area 51?:beer:
 
Nothing said in the OP is false. Save the part about DSL, I hate Bell South far too much to become a customer, and they are the only ones that provide DSL in my area.
 
By 2009, cable companies will be irrelevant anyway. The US government will pull the plug on analog broadcasting and all TV station will be broadcasting digital. The cool thing is, on one analog channel, you can fit about four standard definition digital broadcasts, or one standard definition and an HD broadcast:

This is called multi-casting! And in the digital world of broadcast, there is no such thing as snow -- either you get a nice, clear signal or you get blue screen. (Just like satellite)

Digital also broadcasts further than analog and saturates topography better. So with major network stations, they will all be multicasting -- for FREE!

With up to 20+ channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WB, UPN, and PBS multiplied by 4), great digital reception, and all for FREE! -- Who in the heck will need cable?

Read it and weep you cable-nazis! Cable: RIP 2009. Hooray!
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
deja vu for anyone else?
Nah, I have Comcast and it always works great. good signal on the TV's and cable modem always works. The only issue was when lightening struck and they fixed that right away. OP just lives in the wrong place.

 
Ha, at least you have choices.

Here we have Shaw. That's it for cable choices, & satellite isn't an option for my apartments...
 
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