Comcast upgraded me! Chicago/dekalb area

JonnyBlaze

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comcast absolutely S*CKS!!!

they go out of their way to block vpn so they can tell you to pay $100 a month for it. if i didnt owe the dam dsl company money id be using them!

JBlaze
 

waggy

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Dec 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: boyRacer
oh great... theyre barely in the central usa... yet to reach west coast... :(

yeah not to mention i live in the middle of IL. heh im amazed i even have cable internet! wohoo!
 

wyvrn

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Feb 15, 2000
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Did you experience any service problems during the upgrade? My comcast service has been horrible the past week but support claims there aren't any issues in my area.
 

vi edit

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Oct 28, 1999
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I just noticed my DSL provider bumped me up from a 384 ADSL line to a full 1mb ADSL line.

:Q

Woohoo indeed!

:beer:!
 

waggy

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Dec 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: wyvrn
Did you experience any service problems during the upgrade? My comcast service has been horrible the past week but support claims there aren't any issues in my area.

nope. i just got a email stating they upgraded. I then had to reset the modem and it was fine.
 

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
comcast absolutely S*CKS!!!

they go out of their way to block vpn so they can tell you to pay $100 a month for it. if i didnt owe the dam dsl company money id be using them!

JBlaze

Your company needs to contact NetScaler to purchase an sslvpn solution. Just watch Comcast try and block that!
 

merlocka

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Nov 24, 1999
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I just got the email too!

Ran DSLreports speedtest before and after rebooting modem.

1730/244 before
3500/251 after

I'll take it!

 

waggy

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Dec 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
You don't deserve it! ;)

guess not :brokenheart:

i ran Dsl reports to show my wife and it came up with the 1.5mbits still bah!
 

y2kc

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Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
comcast absolutely S*CKS!!!

they go out of their way to block vpn so they can tell you to pay $100 a month for it. if i didnt owe the dam dsl company money id be using them!

JBlaze

comcast isn't blocking my VPN access.....

<------ gives self cookie

comcast does right by me, 1 outage in 2 or 3 years.
 

Ameesh

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Apr 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: boyRacer
oh great... theyre barely in the central usa... yet to reach west coast... :(

we got the upgrade in seattle already.

you = the suck0r
 

Dunbar

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Feb 19, 2001
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I'm in Chicago, just got the e-mail in the morning. Rebooted the modem but then no pages would load. Didn't have time to mess around with it. Will be nice to pull 3.5 on giganews :)
 

Twista

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Jun 19, 2003
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Well mines with from 215Kb to 290KB after reboot. Let me trying again. ok i ran from chi speedtest and get!

2004-01-29 15:14:26 EST: 3230 / 120
Your download speed : 3230060 bps, or 3230 kbps.
A 394.2 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 120751 bps, or 120 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!


about time for Chicago! Got email also! Text
We need a chicago base server to download a BIG file from to see our max speed.
 

TrailerParkKing

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Jul 12, 2003
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Originally posted by: Dunbar
I'm in Chicago, just got the e-mail in the morning. Rebooted the modem but then no pages would load. Didn't have time to mess around with it. Will be nice to pull 3.5 on giganews :)

I was hoping for the same but they still seem to have my newsgroups set at 250k.......I am on their network, direct like it was before they began forcing people to pay............bastages anyway.........:D
 

KLin

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Feb 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: y2kc
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
comcast absolutely S*CKS!!!

they go out of their way to block vpn so they can tell you to pay $100 a month for it. if i didnt owe the dam dsl company money id be using them!

JBlaze

comcast isn't blocking my VPN access.....

<------ gives self cookie

comcast does right by me, 1 outage in 2 or 3 years.

my VPN access from home isn't blocked either with Comcast.
 

waggy

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Dec 14, 2000
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hmm rebooted and reset the modem again. now im getting 2844kbps rate heh.


need to snag a big file off something fast. any ideas?
 

BatmanNate

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Jul 12, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: boyRacer
oh great... theyre barely in the central usa... yet to reach west coast... :(

we got the upgrade in seattle already.

you = the suck0r


When? I'm in the south sound area and I hadn't realized it kicked in yet, though I hear we were expecting it late January.
 

Entity

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Oct 11, 1999
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Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: boyRacer
oh great... theyre barely in the central usa... yet to reach west coast... :(

we got the upgrade in seattle already.

you = the suck0r

Where? Greenlake is still at 1700/256. :p
 

thomsbrain

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Dec 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: boyRacer
oh great... theyre barely in the central usa... yet to reach west coast... :(

they've been working on the bay area for months now. they still haven't finished even half of the cities, but there's probably 15 or 20 that have the upgrade already.
 

CraigRT

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Jun 16, 2000
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I noticed a few month ago that my Rogers (same network IIRC) upgraded the speed like crazy... it has been soo much faster lately, i absolutely love it !