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Damn you Comcast

IHateMyJob2004

IHateMyJob2004

Lifer
My cable box rebooted right at the end of the Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Now I have to watch the end later via other means. DAMN IT.

And don't laugh. The show is actually good. Season 1 sucked but 2 actually has writers!
 
Comcast SUCKS, I used to do support for them & that was about 15years ago; they've stayed the same if not gotten worse.
 
They likely pushed a new software version to your box. Just be glad that you didn't lose everything on your DVR. That happens about 20% of the time by my unscientific estimate.
 
Comcast has always been really good for me, am sorry you guys are having problems.

Of course, I never watched TV or even got a TV box. I just use them for an ISP.
9 megabit is damn nice.
 
We moved a little over a month ago and when we did, we switched from Dish Network to Comcrap. I have regretted every minute of it. They have the worst DVR in the history of DVRs. I'd go with Tivo HD DVR but I'd lose On Demand which we like.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Comcast has always been really good for me, am sorry you guys are having problems.

Of course, I never watched TV or even got a TV box. I just use them for an ISP.
9 megabit is damn nice.
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I think it's a regional thing. I lived in Western Mass. for a long time and never had a single second of downtime. I moved to Boston and the internet drops at least once per week and cable goes out once per month.
 
My Comcast DVR is terrible. At least twice a week it likes to hang or respond very slowly to action from the remote. Much of the time this results in the DVR locking up and either rebooting itself, or I have to unplug it.

The DVR I had with Time Warner (before I moved to a Comcast only area) was great.
 
I have never had a cable box spontaneously reboot in the 30 some years I've had cable.

I've had them freeze and I had to unplug the power cord to get them to reboot, but not by themselves.
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
My cable box rebooted right at the end of the Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Now I have to watch the end later via other means. DAMN IT.

And don't laugh. The show is actually good. Season 1 sucked but 2 actually has writers!
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At least you weren't watching anything good, though! 😉
 
They're douche-nozzles. They don't even fix their own issues here, they just have a 3rd party do it. This third party doesn't know shit about their work, either. We live in a 3 story apartment complex. For the longest time, we kept getting DC'ed because our coax cable that ran into the switch box downstairs wasn't labeled correctly. They thought it was reading number 9, when it was actually 29. 9 had been scheduled for disconnection months ago, so every time a new service ticket was required for our building due to move-ins or service change, they'd disconnect our cable and we'd have to call them up to look at it again. These frequent visits often took 2-3 hours, because the techs apparently couldn't figure the damn issue out.

Finally, this one genius stoner cable technician (and I'm not being sarcastic, he was the most lucid fucking tech we've ever had the pleasure of meeting, real nice guy!) said - "those morons had your cable mislabeled... I wrote the correct number like 4 times all over it so nobody will ever do this to you again, I'm so sorry!" He then mentioned something about "leaving crapcast for qwest" in a couple weeks. I really hope he made it. The three of us had a soda, played some SSBB together, made some fun quips and then called it a day.

I contacted our closest comcast office and informed them of the terrible inconvenience, and they upped our speed from 12mbit to 16mbit. Shit still get's reset every couple days, making me reset the modem. I had a couple techs look at this issue as well, and they said that it was a "connectivity issue with the main" that's being looked into... Never got fixed.

Comcraptic.
 
Originally posted by: misle
My Comcast DVR is terrible. At least twice a week it likes to hang or respond very slowly to action from the remote. Much of the time this results in the DVR locking up and either rebooting itself, or I have to unplug it.

The DVR I had with Time Warner (before I moved to a Comcast only area) was great.
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Depends on the division of TWC, but here in Tampa, they (and successor BHN) used Scientific Atlanta boxes and PACE boxes with SA's shitty software. I'll take a Motorola box, which is most of what I've seen on Comcast, ANY day of the week.

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
My modem from Comcast had a button to turn on/off the "Internet." Why the fuck is that even on there?
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Every cable modem has a "mute" button, so to speak. Don't ask me why.
 
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: misle
My Comcast DVR is terrible. At least twice a week it likes to hang or respond very slowly to action from the remote. Much of the time this results in the DVR locking up and either rebooting itself, or I have to unplug it.

The DVR I had with Time Warner (before I moved to a Comcast only area) was great.
Click to expand...

Depends on the division of TWC, but here in Tampa, they (and successor BHN) used Scientific Atlanta boxes and PACE boxes with SA's shitty software. I'll take a Motorola box, which is most of what I've seen on Comcast, ANY day of the week.

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
My modem from Comcast had a button to turn on/off the "Internet." Why the fuck is that even on there?
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Every cable modem has a "mute" button, so to speak. Don't ask me why.
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On the four different modems that I have used/bought in the past none of them had it.
 
I actually can't believe I'm saying this, but Comcast has been great for us. We installed the Triple Play pack and when we signed up accidentally sent us a $75 gift card to Target then informed us that we would still get the $100 signup bonus (which came a few days later). The phone service is way ahead of Vonage with indistingiushable quality from POTS. Internet has averaged 12Mbps and TV, well its cable TV, works just fine. We're only going to be there for a year so will cancel before the Triple play discount expires and then do it again when we come back a year later.

 
Comcast used to be great, but their service has been really flaky as of late. Internet just randomly drops at least 3-4 times a month and I'm not even home half the day.

Can't wait for Verizon to move into my neighborhood.
 
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