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.
>> The Q\
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