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...