Comcast

[Backbeach Jake]

Never had a problem with 'em til today. Got a notice that my "expanded basic" will be $49.10. In American Dollars??!! For TV. Well, I guess it's "basic basic" for $9.00. Who ownes these brigands, Exxon-Mobile? Yeah, I'm cheap. But I know how hard I work for my money. Friggin theives!

[Slipknot]

I got the same gripe here BBJ
pisses me off

50 bucks to watch tv?

[mikecc]

To have Comcast internet service you have to have expanded basic or better.
I waited 2 years for a new cable to be brought into my house. They left on the ground across my driveway. I finally had to trench and burry the cable my self in PVC pipe . My reseption is garbage and they will do nothing. cost $96.per Mo.

After seeing a few guys from here with Verizon at $15 I think I'm going to switch. I'll get Direct tv to boot 160 chanles for about $35 less per Mo.
"160 chanels and nothing good to watch"

[Karl F]

I'm frigged....... Verizon can't get DSL to me.. something about the wires between me and the substation in the center of town, too many patches... well, I said, you guys got like 49 godzillion dollars coming in per month... put in some new friggin wires!... Not in the immediate future, was the monotone response.... prolly explains why my phone goes out when we get heavy rain... I tell the repair guy, go to the big box on 6 A in front of the quick oil change place (2 miles from my house)... problems there.. always get a different guy.. he says huh .. they never believe me... track it down...
"Sir, you were Right!"... 2 hours later.......

All "monopoly" type corporations SUCK

[Slingah]

tv...cell phone......internet....they all suck...they charge all the dough and never work right half the time....only problem is that we "need " this stuff oke: ....

[Raven]

direct tv will cost me aprox $35.00 a month
for 160 channels or so
which will be a treat...

i said F.U. to charter permanently

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Raven

direct tv will cost me aprox $35.00 a month
for 160 channels or so
which will be a treat...

i said F.U. to charter permanently

I got DTV raven....63.97 a month with HBO....three recievers
1 is included....5.00 bux each after that.....make sure you have a clear shot at the southern sky too....my pic is not the best at times

[Raven]

i might add additional later on...

to keep the price low...

it's entertainment...

my dad having had seven kids
always said being quite pragmatic
that tv was cheap entertainment
but now adays thats not so true.

net flix is starting to loook good
but their choices for movies
doesnt seem that great... to me.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by mikecc

To have Comcast internet service you have to have expanded basic or better.
I waited 2 years for a new cable to be brought into my house. They left on the ground across my driveway. I finally had to trench and burry the cable my self in PVC pipe . My reseption is garbage and they will do nothing. cost $96.per Mo.

After seeing a few guys from here with Verizon at $15 I think I'm going to switch. I'll get Direct tv to boot 160 chanles for about $35 less per Mo.
"160 chanels and nothing good to watch"

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verizon has a standard DSL modem but it sucks IMO
because it doesnt have a built in router and the Westell 327W
does which you can request for the same exact price from
verizon... i did and already sent the other modem back.
its both a wireless and 4 x modem (the best of both worlds)

[partsjay]

just my .02 cents, but I will never go back to cable...( and my brother is a cable guy ) can't beat the dish....rarely have a problem..1 time during a heavy, heavy rain..and once when we got 3' of snow, and my dish was a block of snow.

[mikecc]

Originally Posted by Raven

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verizon has a standard DSL modem but it sucks IMO
because it doesnt have a built in router and the Westell 327W
does which you can request for the same exact price from
verizon... i did and already sent the other modem back.
its both a wireless and 4 x modem (the best of both worlds)

Thanks for letting me know

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by mikecc

To have Comcast internet service you have to have expanded basic or better.
I waited 2 years for a new cable to be brought into my house. They left on the ground across my driveway. I finally had to trench and burry the cable my self in PVC pipe . My reseption is garbage and they will do nothing. cost $96.per Mo.

After seeing a few guys from here with Verizon at $15 I think I'm going to switch. I'll get Direct tv to boot 160 chanles for about $35 less per Mo.
"160 chanels and nothing good to watch"

The only thing with DSL is that the best Verizon DSL will still feel like 56k compared to the worst cable Internet.

[lurch]

I worked for comcast for 10 yrs and had all services for free....WOO HOO!!

Now that I do not work there I have the basic service as it is just too damn expensive to watch TV. I pay about 90$/month for voice video and data through comcast (49$ for data, 10$ for tv and 35$ for voice).

Verizon is upgrading their network to fiber to the home and will be selling voice video and data services to us and when they do you can kiss Comcast good bye as they will be crushed by Verizon. The only problem is that it will take a few years to get the fiber network rebuilt.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Pete_G

The only thing with DSL is that the best Verizon DSL will still feel like 56k compared to the worst cable Internet.

the slowest cable connection is 384 killibytes per second

verizon dsl is presently 185.....kbps
as ....i just checked mine

but for the price i can't complain thus far...
and they can only go up....from here...
because the dial up isp's speeds
are forcing them to.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by mikecc

After seeing a few guys from here with Verizon at $15 I think I'm going to switch.

Mike, I switched to Verizon DSL for $15 a month from dial-up. It's way faster, had a problem with static in my phones at first but after calling tech support, they sent a tech out to fix the problem. All is good now.