!@%!@$!@# DAMNIT I HATE YOU COMCAST

[TheGizmo]

comcrap is right... *waves fist fiercly*

yea so 10 grand eh spidey, looks like thats too far out of my reach lol

i'll stick to my $52.95 comcrap

 

[ultimatebob]

Crappy customer service... It's Comcastic!

 

[Gamingphreek]

We haven't had problems yet and to be honest I love them compared to Adelphia (Not saying much). Adelphia was quite possibly the worst internet service I ever had the displeasure of using. Having said that, we haven't had problems yet at home and the download/upload speeds all appear very very good.

-Kevin

(Nothing beats Campus Ethernet speed-wise though. We have an upload limit, but I have broken a constant 2MB/s before on a download. Absolutely incredible!)

 

[j00fek]

stay away from comcast

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: TheGizmo
ditto.. the only other option I have is verizon DSL but the max speed I can get in my location is 1.5 Mbps / 384 kbps... and comcast is much faster than that at least. Sucks, I really hate to support such a terrible corporation but I'm kinda stuck til FiOS comes around my way.

You have three choices and you are complaining you are "stuck"?

How so? How in the world are you stuck?

Do you realize just how much bandwidth costs? Do you not realize the astounding leaps and bounds that have occured over just 60 months?

OP got what he paid for. I can pick up a phone and call providers and be immediately connected to level4 engineers if need be, but I pay for it. Support and ongoing expense of ANY network is the lions share of the cost of ownership.

You pay for that kind of support for your home usage? I mean, sure I can call and get the support I need for the connections to the various offices but for home? No way.

 

[TheGizmo]

so I called them again and had to go to Tier 3 tech support for them to explain to me why their plan reads: Performace (6 Mb/s Downstream, 384 or 768 Kbps Upstream).. nobody except Tier 3 tech support knew why it said 384 or 768.. WTF man. Anyway, i finally got my explanation albeit it took another 46 minutes, plus the 38 from yesterday. And they don't even offer the 16 meg service in my area. Why the hell did they send me a flyer via snail mail to sign up for it then.

 

[PepePeru]

i had to threaten to cancel service to get to talk to a tier 2 CSR.
only to have them finally admit that they were working on the node near my apt. which was the cause of my slower than dialup speeds for 2 weeks & it was not my computer, NIC, modem or router.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
How much does bandwidth really cost, anyway? About 50 cents per GB of data transfer?

(

(Cost of equipment + cost of installing equipment + cost of cable + cost of laying cable)
+
(yearly cost of maintaining equipment + yearly cost of maintaining cable) * (average years of service for said equipment / cable)

)

/

(

(full bandwidth in GB of said equipment per second) * (# of seconds in a year) * (average years of service for said equipment / cable)

)



So, in other words, not that much.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
How much does bandwidth really cost, anyway? About 50 cents per GB of data transfer?

what the market will bear...

I'd imagine that there is an average price for bulk bandwidth out there somewhere...

Alternator sized?