Comcast Meltdown
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:



That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Dec 31, 10:40*am, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:

That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. *Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

I know of five people who have it in my area, and none have had any
problems. I rarely lose my connection, I have net and TV. I can't even
remember the last time that happened.
The people with phone really like it, it's got a lot of cool and
useful features.

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Dec 30, 5:42*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message

...



You should've just called Harry he can fix anything.

Anybody should. *Heck, I am far from a computer expert, but I successfully
installed and setup a wireless home network system for my son at his
Beachouse. *All you have to do is carefully follow the instructions.

Our system was dependent on Comcast. * *That* was the problem.

Eisboch

Hey, now you are as much of an expert as Harry;)

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Dec 31, 10:58*am, wrote:
On Dec 31, 10:40*am, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:

That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. *Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

I know of five people who have it in my area, and none have had any
problems. I rarely lose my connection, I have net and TV. I can't even
remember the last time that happened.
The people with phone really like it, it's got a lot of cool and
useful features.

About 6 months ago our cable system (Cox) introduced a new sales pitch
called "power boost" which immediatly caused us intermittent down time
which we had never had in 4 previous years, and slowed my download
times by half. I can't even watch most youtube vids now without breaks
and catch up time. What a joke...

Now that the cable companies have everyone going digital in Feb, and
there will really be no options for many to use sattelite (simple line
of sight issues in many cases), they will be heading for network
neutrality and cutting services. I saw an alert on "Spike TV" last
night to Time warner customers that 10 channels including Spike, MTV,
The commedy Channel, TV land, and many others that seem pretty main
stream would be cut as of last night.. This is only the beginning.
Cable is not happy with 100-150 dollars a month, they will certainly
bring these "standard package" channels back a pay channels. I am sure
they would like to cut their "basic" packages down to a half dozen
channels or so if they can...

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:58:56 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 31, 10:40Â*am, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:

That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. Â*Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

I know of five people who have it in my area, and none have had any
problems. I rarely lose my connection, I have net and TV. I can't even
remember the last time that happened.
The people with phone really like it, it's got a lot of cool and
useful features.

Probably a local thing. But it doesn't matter. All I care about with
a phone is getting a dial tone and voice mail.
All the time. I had one couple hour outage with Ma Bell copper in 40
years when a squirrel chewed through a wire's insulation.
With a few years of Comcast it's already added up to DAYS.
And not because of storms. Incompetence with their software.
Besides, they cost too much. They're paying turtles to go
skateboarding with human chicks with my money. It's a sick outfit.

--Vic

Comcast Meltdown
 

Vic Smith wrote:
They're paying turtles to go
skateboarding with human chicks with my money. It's a sick outfit.

--Vic

I have to ask what this means?

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:12:06 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Dec 31, 10:58Â*am, wrote:
On Dec 31, 10:40Â*am, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:

That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. Â*Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

I know of five people who have it in my area, and none have had any
problems. I rarely lose my connection, I have net and TV. I can't even
remember the last time that happened.
The people with phone really like it, it's got a lot of cool and
useful features.

About 6 months ago our cable system (Cox) introduced a new sales pitch
called "power boost" which immediatly caused us intermittent down time
which we had never had in 4 previous years, and slowed my download
times by half. I can't even watch most youtube vids now without breaks
and catch up time. What a joke...

Now that the cable companies have everyone going digital in Feb, and
there will really be no options for many to use sattelite (simple line
of sight issues in many cases), they will be heading for network
neutrality and cutting services. I saw an alert on "Spike TV" last
night to Time warner customers that 10 channels including Spike, MTV,
The commedy Channel, TV land, and many others that seem pretty main
stream would be cut as of last night.. This is only the beginning.
Cable is not happy with 100-150 dollars a month, they will certainly
bring these "standard package" channels back a pay channels. I am sure
they would like to cut their "basic" packages down to a half dozen
channels or so if they can...

Comcast has already moved about 5 channels we watched from our
"standard" package. They want another 15 bucks a month for the next
step up to for us to get them back.
Plus they dropped the giganews usenet feed from their internet
service, which cost $8 month to replace.
Only reason I don't go to satellite is we watch 4 different TV's in
the house and with the sat box charges we would end up paying even
more.
A big piece of what we're paying is going to salaries for
multi-millionaire ball players, some who torture dogs.
We don't even watch sports.
I could do without most of the TV, but my wife would raise hell.
Oh well.

--Vic

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:30:58 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
They're paying turtles to go
skateboarding with human chicks with my money. It's a sick outfit.

--Vic

I have to ask what this means?

It's a Comcast TV commercial. I don't know about where you're at, but
every other commercial here seems to be a Comcast commercial.
I swear there's one on now as I write.

--Vic

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Boater wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:54:42 -0500, Boater wrote:


If by "next Windows," you mean Windows 7, it won't be "truly different"
from VISTA, or a new OS built from scratch, but will be evolutionary.

Here's a semi-official blog that keeps track of it without being too
technical:

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/default.aspx


I don't follow Windows development, but I do remember there being
speculation that a hypervisor would be included. Apparently, the beta
is out now.


That's the rumor! :)

It will be a support nightmare.

Comcast Meltdown
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:45:38 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:12:06 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Dec 31, 10:58*am, wrote:
On Dec 31, 10:40*am, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:19:37 -0800 (PST), wrote:

That's odd, I don't know of anybody who doesn't like Comcast phone.

I don't like it. *Mine drops the connection too much.
Besides that, when I lose service to the phone, which has happened far
too often, I also lose the net and TV.
I'm looking at alternatives.

--Vic

I know of five people who have it in my area, and none have had any
problems. I rarely lose my connection, I have net and TV. I can't even
remember the last time that happened.
The people with phone really like it, it's got a lot of cool and
useful features.

About 6 months ago our cable system (Cox) introduced a new sales pitch
called "power boost" which immediatly caused us intermittent down time
which we had never had in 4 previous years, and slowed my download
times by half. I can't even watch most youtube vids now without breaks
and catch up time. What a joke...

Now that the cable companies have everyone going digital in Feb, and
there will really be no options for many to use sattelite (simple line
of sight issues in many cases), they will be heading for network
neutrality and cutting services. I saw an alert on "Spike TV" last
night to Time warner customers that 10 channels including Spike, MTV,
The commedy Channel, TV land, and many others that seem pretty main
stream would be cut as of last night.. This is only the beginning.
Cable is not happy with 100-150 dollars a month, they will certainly
bring these "standard package" channels back a pay channels. I am sure
they would like to cut their "basic" packages down to a half dozen
channels or so if they can...

Comcast has already moved about 5 channels we watched from our
"standard" package. They want another 15 bucks a month for the next
step up to for us to get them back.
Plus they dropped the giganews usenet feed from their internet
service, which cost $8 month to replace.
Only reason I don't go to satellite is we watch 4 different TV's in
the house and with the sat box charges we would end up paying even
more.
A big piece of what we're paying is going to salaries for
multi-millionaire ball players, some who torture dogs.
We don't even watch sports.
I could do without most of the TV, but my wife would raise hell.
Oh well.

--Vic

Ditto on the wives bit!
--
** Good Day! **

John H