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07-18-2020, 02:17 AM | #426 |
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Over the last decades the big providers have developed legal strangleholds on municipalities regarding broadband infrastructure. Many (most?) cities are legally restricted on what physical wires they're allowed to permit, per the agreements they've made with comcast/at&t/turner/etc. It's extremely difficult for anybody, even google, to break into the market with new lines.
One day, some day, it'll just be a utility. Kind of irritating that Internet provision isn't just like water or power, which I know is a whole can of worms, at least it would be in this country.
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07-18-2020, 01:34 PM | #427 |
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Funny how this thread was bumped and showing in my subscribed threads list.
My sister moved into an apartment on Thursday. She bought a modem (Xfinity approved) and router. I hooked it up around 7pm and activated it. I configured the router with a password. Everything was working fine from 7pm Thursday evening until yesterday (Friday) morning around 9am. So basically 12ish hours later and it stops working... She power cycled the equipment.. same issue. I stopped by after work yesterday and power cycled the equipment again and checked all the cables to make sure everything was connected properly and it was. Power Light - Lit Downstream Light - Flashing Green No other lights on Called Comcast and the woman (super nice) sent a refresh signal to the modem. The modem rebooted and about 10 minutes later same issue with no connection. Unfortunately they have to send a tech out on Tuesday between 3pm-5pm. |
07-18-2020, 02:23 PM | #428 | |
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07-18-2020, 02:26 PM | #429 |
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What's your signal strength? The tech might charge you, stop by a store and pick up a comcast modem and see if it works - just pay a weeks rent. I've never had issue with my owned modem.
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07-22-2020, 09:35 AM | #430 | ||
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My sister said the X1 TV box arrived Monday afternoon. Yesterday (Tuesday) the tech was scheduled to be out between 3pm-5pm so I went right after work to connect her X1 TV box to see if it got a signal. And just as I suspected "no signal - please check connections". The Comcast tech arrived around 3:45pm and I let him into my sisters apartment. He went over and checked the jack for signal strength and nothing... I let him know that my sister moved in last Thursday and I set everything up for her and it was working fine until Friday morning. I told him contractors are doing construction out behind her building (new concrete pads for porches) and he said well let's go outside and test the connection out there. He tested the connection outside of her apartment from where it goes up to her apartment and nothing. He tested the box where everything feeds into and it was getting service. So it is the run from the main box to her apartment. He said he can't run a temp line because the contractors are still working out back and they would just dig it or cover it with concrete. He said if she was a bottom apartment he would run a temp line but with how far she is from the main feed it won't work. Then I read this on Comcast's website... "If there are no delays, it can take up to 14 business days from the date the technician places the order for your new underground line to be installed. Unfortunately, we do encounter occasional delays." https://www.xfinity.com/support/arti...rground-wiring |
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07-22-2020, 11:27 AM | #431 | |
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The guy that runs the new line probably won't be the guy to bury. "Oh, that's a different group. Once I close out the work order to install the new line, I'll open a new work order to have it buried." There's got to be at least a dozen houses in my neighborhood where Comcast had to run a new line from the stub in the yard to the house. And the big orange coax is still laying on the lawn or across the driveway years later. Repeated calls to Comcast have failed to get anyone to bury it. Usually a guy will show up with a gardening trowel, and say "Oh, it needs to go under the [driveway, walkway, sidewalk, other obstacle]. I don't have the tools to do that. I'll have to open another work order and send another group out." Rinse. Repeat. |
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07-22-2020, 12:12 PM | #432 |
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Then they bury it an inch deep... don't ever aerate your lawn.
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07-22-2020, 01:49 PM | #433 |
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It was nice when google came to bury their fiber at my house. They had the special trencher to run under all the cement.
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11-24-2020, 09:17 AM | #434 | |
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Comcast to impose 1.2 TB data cap limit on North East states starting in 2012
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11-24-2020, 01:20 PM | #435 |
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^ Came here to post that.... Just saw it this morning.
Wait.. you said 2012?! |
12-16-2020, 04:32 PM | #436 |
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Fuuuuuuuuu.
After Comcast arbitrarily moved a bunch of channels I pay for to IPTV-only tier (and didn't decrease my bill), they bumped me up to the 1Gbps tier (from 100Mbps)...knowing full well its bandwidth I'll never use. Of course, my cable modem is older and won't support Gigabit. I found a refurb one for $35 that supports up to 1.4Gbps 32x8 channels and got that working. Then Comcast informs me that they will only support Gigabit speeds on DOCSIS 3.1 standard...yeah, not buying a $200 modem for that. |
12-17-2020, 12:20 PM | #437 | |
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12-17-2020, 10:31 PM | #438 |
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So I wake up to the internet/cable being down this morning. Obviously, this results in eleventy useless calls from their tech support, continuously trying to convince me to plug and unplug the boxes until the problem fixes itself. I won't go on, but it's ridiculous.
There are two cable boxes and a modem in the house. The splitter is outside and everything is down...so obviously, the problem is outside. The modem won't connect even when plugged in directly to the line outside the house. Not that anyone on the phone cares, or understands what that implies. Keep ****ing that checklist chicken! Anyway, I'm WFH and their next appt. is in three days. So I yank open the box at the street (which looks like it had been hit by a car recently), cut the end of the cable (hard fold in it) and replace the connector, doesn't fix it. Next I pull the HPF they had on the line (not realizing why it would be on there, I thought maybe it was damaged too): (same filter, but at the street box) Suddenly, after 12 hours of downtime, everything works again. Oh, and they mentioned they were performing updates in the area last night when it went out. Think those "system updates" included slapping on that HPF, and not checking that everything still worked? Or do we think the filter actually went bad? Anyway, I canceled the service call seeing that everything is working. Bets on if a new filter magically appears at some point? /rant |
12-18-2020, 10:07 AM | #439 | |
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Ironically, it appeared that most of those complaints were the fault of Comcast for never having removed the old modem from their system when the previous owner upgraded to a new one. Fingers crossed. |
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12-18-2020, 10:10 AM | #440 | |
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12-22-2020, 05:29 AM | #441 |
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Apparently even with the 'courtesy adjustment' for reduced sports programming, my monthly bill is up by $11 even while I'm under contract. Currently too tired (lazy) to figure out what they're ****ing me with. Anybody else?
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12-22-2020, 10:19 AM | #442 |
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12-22-2020, 05:20 PM | #443 |
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That's why I gave up getting content from Comcast and ATT, their bills keep changing and after 2+ decades I'm tired of fighting\haggling them over it. I just pay (too much) for the pipes and go to YouTubeTV, Hulu, Prime etc for all content. Easier to keep track of internet only promotions then those frigging triple play deals and ever changing options\lineups.
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12-22-2020, 06:29 PM | #444 |
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I'm sure they have departments that do nothing but think up bull**** fees to charge that most people won't notice or care enough to dispute.
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12-22-2020, 08:43 PM | #445 |
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12-22-2020, 10:36 PM | #446 |
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comcast sent me an email stating rates are going up...thanks couldnt of happened at a better time with all the **** going on with a pandemic
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12-23-2020, 10:02 AM | #447 | |
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The bill changes randomly from month to month, making it difficult to figure out what the hell is going on. That also makes it impossible for most people to set up an automatic recurring payment in the same amount each month with their bank. So the customers are forced to pay it manually each month (which Comcast heavily discourages in a variety of ways) or submit to Comcast's autopay and electronic statements. They know full well that without paper statements, nobody will log in each month to review their bill. And since its on autopay, nobody really stops to think "Wait, that's doesn't seem like the amount I've been paying" and go check it out. So Comcast knows they can dick around with how much they charge within some % each month before the average customer notices and starts saying WTF? And for those that do start disputing the bill, the cust serv people are trained to throw "free" extras at you rather than reduce your bill to what it should be. |
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12-23-2020, 10:12 AM | #448 | |
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We've done that. Twice. The last time, Comcast, rather than deal with us to fix their errors, threatened to stop all service. But my wife had them dead-to-rights with a massive amount of correspondence and screen captures of online chats. Submitted it to the FCC, who within 24hrs called my wife and told Comcast they couldn't do jack to our service until they resolved the issue to our satisfaction. Comcast had created such an enormous clusterf**k for themselves that my wife spent nearly 8hrs on the phone with one of their senior Directors sorting all the billing garbage out over a 2 day period. |
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12-23-2020, 11:17 AM | #449 |
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01-22-2021, 09:31 PM | #450 |
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Bill is going up by $5 due to Broadcast Fee going up to$20
I dont even use their TV services |
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