I'll keep my eye on this thread because my Road Runner got bought by them. I'll have to change e-mail addresses sometime next year it appears when the take over happens. Curious to see how others regard them.
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I have Comcast cable tv and Comcast cable internet. I've not had any problems with either, but I do think they are rather expensive. We use only the lowest tier for tv which is only $10 a month, but I think it's a hefty chunk of change to move to the highter tier (tiers determine how many and what channels you get). Because we don't watch a lot of tv, this works well for us. Our cable internet runs $45 a month. I believe if we changed to DSL it would only be $26, but DSL wasn't available in our neighborhood when we moved here and now it just seems like a LOT of hassel to switch.
we had comcast in the earlier years while DSL was still working out the bugs.
we have phone co. phone
Now have DSL, but run email 2 different ways.
1 way is through our relatives back east...they don't use all their accounts available
2 way is with gmail
Cable is expensivem we have DISH now too...switched over when we switched to DSL. have not had 1 price increase in 3 years....cannot say that about cable.
Comcast is positioning themselves. They are advertising nationally, even though they are clearly not in Every market.
The market is going to be changing drastically in the next few years. Cable companies are going to become libraries and offer movies AND tv shows on demand. Some are doing it now. Before the end of the year, all the major networks will have a delivery system. ABC NBC and CBS are testing the waters now. DVR's(Digital Video Recorders) have helped to push that allowing time shifting of shows. They will feed that market if there is a buck to be made.
I missed an episode of a show a few weeks ago and went to iTunes and downloaded the episode the day after it aired. Hopefully the flat rate model of charges will be replaced by a pay per show model.
And a new delivery model is being implemented by Verizon, Fiber Optics. The system has the ability to handle a large delivery system -- total on demand!. The problem is that implementation will take a few years as new fiber optic cable needs to laid down.
The internet has all the communication companies rethinking their models and now they are playing catch up. Hopefully in all of this, multiple choices will be available to the consumer and the prices will come down.
The market is going to be changing drastically in the next few years. Cable companies are going to become libraries and offer movies AND tv shows on demand. Some are doing it now.
Time Warner is doing it now with some of their stations for free and with all of the pay per view when you get the digital cable.
I have Comcast middle-tier cable and Comcast internet. No problems with either. My system used to be Viacom until Comcast bought them out. Much better now.
The middle-tier cable is about $45/mo and the internet is something like $30/mo for the first year. They commited to the $30/mo because I already had a broadband connection and would switch to them. If you don't mind a little deception, ask them if they can give you a better price if you switch from DSL to them. If so, make them guarantee the new price for a year.
The internet has been pretty much flawless. Even though it's supposed to be a dynamic IP address, mine hasn't changed in the 4 months I've had the service, which is very cool for me because I run a Virtual Private Network between work and home. There's something like a 2gig per month quota on the newsgroup server, which shouldn't be an problem unless you have some serious porn issues
Much depends on your individual need and what's available where you are. I presently use cable for TV, computer and phone. One bill is nice and it's always the same. It is a sizable chunk however.
With family living far away, and other friends moving a large distance soon, 34.99 for telephone use, no matter where, or how far is very attractive for us. Some will find a cell phone plan to handle long distance calls to be least expensive
As more broadcasting is becoming digital I don't understand the need for a dish network. I understand the very large assortment of channels could draw many more viewers, but when I used a dish previously, it wasn't worth the cost because the dish was subject to so many local weather conditions. If you live in a rural area, dish networks may be your best choice.
We don't use Com cast. I don't even know if it's available here. We use another cable service from Time-Warner. I know that our area was recently rebuilt in such a way that no user shares the same node as more than 250 others. This keeps quality high.
We have used this cable provider since cable first came to our area more than 35 years ago and have always been satisfied with their service and repair record. Since the system has been upgraded, their service has gotten even better. I don't know if it's the cable provider only who gets this credit. I've seen a number of dishes go up in my neighborhood in the past few years, and quite a number of them come down after the first contract year.
Whatever you're selecting, be sure to read and understand everything in the contract. Sometimes certain good looking advantages terminate after a trial period of time, and you will need to ante up more bucks to retain them.
Well, the local Comcast company here was AWFUL to deal with - - took forever to install, way overpriced, wrong rates on the bill, then would demand you pay first before they looked at the bill. Would not turn my cable OFF until I returned their box - - only open from 9-5 weekdays, so I wasn't going to take off work to drop off a box across the city - - OR I could ship it back to them on my dime. I finally (very nicely ;) ) convinced them that if they could drop it off, they could pick it up, though that took them a month to do.
I finally switched to my phone company (SBC) and get phone, cell, DSL and satellite in a package which saves me a bundle and it's auto billing, so I don't even have to write a check which I love. When I have had to call in for help or questions, they are wonderful to deal with.
I have used Comcast Internet since being in my current location. DSL only recently begun being offered. They have been very, very reliable. There have been two outages in the past three years. One of those outages was as the result of a hurricane that came through and blew the lines down. The speed is simply outstanding. The Internet connectivity here in the MD suburbs costs $39 a month on top of the cable TV bill. I think its $49 a month if you don't have cable TV, but am not sure.
Our Internet connection is a 7 MB/S connection, by the way. And from what I understand that is a synchronous connection speed. DSL that is provided to homes is more properly called ADSL (Asynchronous DSL). What that means is that the download speed is a maximum of 1.5 MB/S...and slower the farther away from the telephone central office you are. The upload speed is only 64 KB/S, though. If all you do is surf the web, that upload speed shouldn't matter; but if you have multiple computers hooked up, or even one computer hooked up and want to do things like Video IM, it could impact your quality of service. Also, your ability to use Internet telephony services like Vonage or Skype.
We have six computers and two printers hooked up in a home network (wireless/wired) that connect to the Internet via a router. We can have all of the computers running streaming video simultaneously and there has not been any congestion. (I actually did that once as an experiment). From Comcast's perspective, they really don't care. My parents had Bell South's DSL. They had two computers hooked up to their wireless network, through a wireless router. They got a nastygram from BellSouth ordering them to take one of those computers off the network or face having their DSL service terminated. Apparently their terms of service allowed them to have only one computer hooked up to the DSL connection. So if you are considering getting DSL, you might want to read the service agreement VERY carefully -- I'm not saying if that is universally true, but it was in my parents' case.
So, I guess the bottom line is that ADSL is cheaper but, imho, cable is better. Depends upon which is more importnant to you.
I've been using Comcast Internet and Cable TV services for several years. I love the speed of the Internet service. I have problems every night with the HBO channels and have to turn off my cable box and turn it back on. It's been serviced several times without being resolved. I know we pay way too much for the pay for view channels like HBO, but I must say the Internet access is excellent.
I have my doubts about using the phone system. VoIP is still in its early stages. Find out what happens if someone hijacks your IP address for the phone and makes long distances calls. Also, discount privacy if you use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
I think cell phone providers will be giving long distance away soon in order to sell the other services they are planning now like Pod programming.
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I'll keep my eye on this thread because my Road Runner got bought by them. I'll have to change e-mail addresses sometime next year it appears when the take over happens. Curious to see how others regard them.
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i have cablevision, are they part of comcast ?
my only complaint TOO EXPENSIVE
but everything works fine (well i have regular phone service)
i'm too busy and lazy to investigate other ways to go; sometimes i see a commercial about different service and think i should look into that
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I have Comcast cable tv and Comcast cable internet. I've not had any problems with either, but I do think they are rather expensive. We use only the lowest tier for tv which is only $10 a month, but I think it's a hefty chunk of change to move to the highter tier (tiers determine how many and what channels you get). Because we don't watch a lot of tv, this works well for us. Our cable internet runs $45 a month. I believe if we changed to DSL it would only be $26, but DSL wasn't available in our neighborhood when we moved here and now it just seems like a LOT of hassel to switch.
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we had comcast in the earlier years while DSL was still working out the bugs.
we have phone co. phone
Now have DSL, but run email 2 different ways.
1 way is through our relatives back east...they don't use all their accounts available
2 way is with gmail
Cable is expensivem we have DISH now too...switched over when we switched to DSL. have not had 1 price increase in 3 years....cannot say that about cable.
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Comcast is positioning themselves. They are advertising nationally, even though they are clearly not in Every market.
The market is going to be changing drastically in the next few years. Cable companies are going to become libraries and offer movies AND tv shows on demand. Some are doing it now. Before the end of the year, all the major networks will have a delivery system. ABC NBC and CBS are testing the waters now. DVR's(Digital Video Recorders) have helped to push that allowing time shifting of shows. They will feed that market if there is a buck to be made.
I missed an episode of a show a few weeks ago and went to iTunes and downloaded the episode the day after it aired. Hopefully the flat rate model of charges will be replaced by a pay per show model.
And a new delivery model is being implemented by Verizon, Fiber Optics. The system has the ability to handle a large delivery system -- total on demand!. The problem is that implementation will take a few years as new fiber optic cable needs to laid down.
The internet has all the communication companies rethinking their models and now they are playing catch up. Hopefully in all of this, multiple choices will be available to the consumer and the prices will come down.
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Time Warner is doing it now with some of their stations for free and with all of the pay per view when you get the digital cable.
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I have Comcast middle-tier cable and Comcast internet. No problems with either. My system used to be Viacom until Comcast bought them out. Much better now.
The middle-tier cable is about $45/mo and the internet is something like $30/mo for the first year. They commited to the $30/mo because I already had a broadband connection and would switch to them. If you don't mind a little deception, ask them if they can give you a better price if you switch from DSL to them. If so, make them guarantee the new price for a year.
The internet has been pretty much flawless. Even though it's supposed to be a dynamic IP address, mine hasn't changed in the 4 months I've had the service, which is very cool for me because I run a Virtual Private Network between work and home. There's something like a 2gig per month quota on the newsgroup server, which shouldn't be an problem unless you have some serious porn issues
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Comcast isn't in my area (yet); but my brother (Chicago area) has Comcast cable and internet and is pleased with both.
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Much depends on your individual need and what's available where you are. I presently use cable for TV, computer and phone. One bill is nice and it's always the same. It is a sizable chunk however.
With family living far away, and other friends moving a large distance soon, 34.99 for telephone use, no matter where, or how far is very attractive for us. Some will find a cell phone plan to handle long distance calls to be least expensive
As more broadcasting is becoming digital I don't understand the need for a dish network. I understand the very large assortment of channels could draw many more viewers, but when I used a dish previously, it wasn't worth the cost because the dish was subject to so many local weather conditions. If you live in a rural area, dish networks may be your best choice.
We don't use Com cast. I don't even know if it's available here. We use another cable service from Time-Warner. I know that our area was recently rebuilt in such a way that no user shares the same node as more than 250 others. This keeps quality high.
We have used this cable provider since cable first came to our area more than 35 years ago and have always been satisfied with their service and repair record. Since the system has been upgraded, their service has gotten even better. I don't know if it's the cable provider only who gets this credit. I've seen a number of dishes go up in my neighborhood in the past few years, and quite a number of them come down after the first contract year.
Whatever you're selecting, be sure to read and understand everything in the contract. Sometimes certain good looking advantages terminate after a trial period of time, and you will need to ante up more bucks to retain them.
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Well, the local Comcast company here was AWFUL to deal with - - took forever to install, way overpriced, wrong rates on the bill, then would demand you pay first before they looked at the bill. Would not turn my cable OFF until I returned their box - - only open from 9-5 weekdays, so I wasn't going to take off work to drop off a box across the city - - OR I could ship it back to them on my dime. I finally (very nicely ;) ) convinced them that if they could drop it off, they could pick it up, though that took them a month to do.
I finally switched to my phone company (SBC) and get phone, cell, DSL and satellite in a package which saves me a bundle and it's auto billing, so I don't even have to write a check which I love. When I have had to call in for help or questions, they are wonderful to deal with.
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I use a private internet company,
My tv has the 5 major networks,
My phone company is from Wisconsin (cheaper than Quest)
If I want to watch cable, I do so at work,
And life is good!
Comcast?? It doesn't sound like they have much to offer to me.
:) :)
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I have used Comcast Internet since being in my current location. DSL only recently begun being offered. They have been very, very reliable. There have been two outages in the past three years. One of those outages was as the result of a hurricane that came through and blew the lines down. The speed is simply outstanding. The Internet connectivity here in the MD suburbs costs $39 a month on top of the cable TV bill. I think its $49 a month if you don't have cable TV, but am not sure.
Our Internet connection is a 7 MB/S connection, by the way. And from what I understand that is a synchronous connection speed. DSL that is provided to homes is more properly called ADSL (Asynchronous DSL). What that means is that the download speed is a maximum of 1.5 MB/S...and slower the farther away from the telephone central office you are. The upload speed is only 64 KB/S, though. If all you do is surf the web, that upload speed shouldn't matter; but if you have multiple computers hooked up, or even one computer hooked up and want to do things like Video IM, it could impact your quality of service. Also, your ability to use Internet telephony services like Vonage or Skype.
We have six computers and two printers hooked up in a home network (wireless/wired) that connect to the Internet via a router. We can have all of the computers running streaming video simultaneously and there has not been any congestion. (I actually did that once as an experiment). From Comcast's perspective, they really don't care. My parents had Bell South's DSL. They had two computers hooked up to their wireless network, through a wireless router. They got a nastygram from BellSouth ordering them to take one of those computers off the network or face having their DSL service terminated. Apparently their terms of service allowed them to have only one computer hooked up to the DSL connection. So if you are considering getting DSL, you might want to read the service agreement VERY carefully -- I'm not saying if that is universally true, but it was in my parents' case.
So, I guess the bottom line is that ADSL is cheaper but, imho, cable is better. Depends upon which is more importnant to you.
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I've been using Comcast Internet and Cable TV services for several years. I love the speed of the Internet service. I have problems every night with the HBO channels and have to turn off my cable box and turn it back on. It's been serviced several times without being resolved. I know we pay way too much for the pay for view channels like HBO, but I must say the Internet access is excellent.
I have my doubts about using the phone system. VoIP is still in its early stages. Find out what happens if someone hijacks your IP address for the phone and makes long distances calls. Also, discount privacy if you use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
I think cell phone providers will be giving long distance away soon in order to sell the other services they are planning now like Pod programming.
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Thanks everyone, we had heard that COMCAST customer service was BAD, we heard that the phone was cheap as all long distance is free.
We are still deciding.
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