something must be wrong because her family is on their 2nd wireless router

http://www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/3833

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Down To DSL


> that sounds like cabling issues in to the house or wireless router issues,
> both of which could be fixed easy enough. I never have problems other than
> their spam filtering and the lies you get when you do call about a 
> problem.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Down To DSL
>
>
>> my friend also has comcast and her internet is  down about 85 percent of
>> the
>> time and thats hard to have reliable chats that way in my opinion
>>
>> http://www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/3833
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: Down To DSL
>>
>>
>>> Comcast lies to people when there's problems and everything, if they
>>> weren't
>>> the only game in town I'd switch, but they screwed us real bad on the
>>> package deal so I only have them for  internet now, dish network for TV,
>>> and
>>> the main phone in the house has verizon, my private line is with
>>> voicewing,
>>> either way, it's cheaper now than with the package when they got done
>>> with
>>> us..
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:43 PM
>>> Subject: Down To DSL
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am always curious about other people's experiences so here is
>>>> mine for what it is worth.
>>>>
>>>>     I started out with high speed internet service probably about
>>>> 7 or 8 years ago.  Maybe even further back than that.  I tried
>>>> starting with DSL but my phone company didn't have that service in
>>>> my area so I called, what used to be home.com at that time,
>>>> because they handled cable service for the Denver area at that
>>>> time.  It was about 55 to 60 dollars a month.  home.com later was
>>>> bought out, after a big court battle, by ATT but eventually, and
>>>> only after a couple of years, they were bought out by the local TV
>>>> cable company which is comcast.  I always enjoyed my cable days
>>>> and rarely had a problem.  The customer repair service wasn't
>>>> anything to write home about, though, but nothing went wrong,
>>>> normally, so it generally wasn't a problem.  Then about a year
>>>> ago, or more, comcast put on a big push and you could get cable,
>>>> TV, and digital phone for a dad gum reasonable price.  Well, stuff
>>>> like that never lasts for ever and eventually they jacked all the
>>>> prices up and before too long, the 75 dollars a month we were
>>>> saving, was turned into a negative.  I didn't want to go to DSL,
>>>> since it was slower, even though they had it in our area now, but
>>>> there were some little things about digital phone that bothered me
>>>> once and awhile but everything else was fine.  We even went from 4
>>>> megs to 8 meg service but I swore, my hand on the Bible, my
>>>> internet connection slowed down both for email and the web when we
>>>> went to 8 megs.  It could have been updates they were doing and
>>>> things they were working on but it definitely was slower access.
>>>> Anyhow, we saved a few bucks going back to Qwest and got Direct TV
>>>> with the package, or bundle, from Qwest, DSL, and of course the
>>>> standard wire land line phone service.  The phone service, no
>>>> matter what digital comcast phone says, is better and especially
>>>> overseas and I do some overseas stuff.  The digital phone comcast
>>>> service has a lot of nice features but there are a couple of
>>>> things they don't have, convenience items I missed with landline
>>>> service, The TV stuff is, of course, the same, but the DSL is
>>>> nothing short of amazing.  Well, compared to all I did on cable.
>>>> Now I realize downloading huge files is going to be different over
>>>> all but I rarely do that anyhow.  The email and web access,
>>>> however, is just the same.  In fact, I honestly believe my email
>>>> connections are faster.  So I am assuming that comcast has a lot
>>>> more people on the cable line in this neighborhood than years ago
>>>> when I was probably the only one in miles around me on cable
>>>> internet years ago.  Anyhow, I have not run any tests of download
>>>> speeds, either before or after.  Streaming seems the same,
>>>> however.  I don't need to run some speed tests, although I am
>>>> curious up to a point, but the basic, every day activities, are
>>>> the same.  I felt a little sheepish going to Qwest, which is now
>>>> owned by MSN, you know, anti big business and all, but becoming
>>>> q.com changed my mind.  The shorter the better, at least I think
>>>> that's how it goes, or is it the longer the better?  I don't know.
>>>> I forget now at my age.  So, I thought I might report, for what it
>>>> is worth, on my experience to date.  I even checked into a
>>>> wireless company but they wanted 50 dollars a month for just two
>>>> computers.  Oh, by the way, the customer service from Qwest makes
>>>> comcast look ridiculous.  In fact, that's why we finally changed.
>>>> A couple of weeks ago, comcast jacked our services up so badly,
>>>> nobody knew what was going on, and they hosed up our phone
>>>> service, calling services, and internet connections and everybody
>>>> you talked to would tell us something different.  Qwest comes out
>>>> in 8 hours minimum.  Then again, I miss the old dial up days.
>>>> Scratch that.  I don't miss the dial up days, so I take that back.
>>>>
>>>> Phil.
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>>>>
>>>>