Last straw accounted for. Comcast, you're fired.

[Will Collier]

As Ry Cooder would say, listen to my tale of woe:

http://wcollier.blogspot.com/2013/08/mon...mcast.html

[rgG]

I broke the pencil on Comcrap over twenty years ago.
Slower DSL is a small price to pay for not having to deal with those lice.

[C(-)ris]

I wish I could get Comcast. Stuck in a building that the owner won't let comcast wire. Sucks.

[pdq]

C(-)ris wrote:
I wish I could get Comcast. Stuck in a building that the owner won't let comcast wire. Sucks.

In the future when you get cursed with Comcast you'll look back fondly on these days.

[JoeH]

I've been lucky so far with Comcast service guys, only one really messed up. But their office staff, most of the ones I have dealt with should be in another business. Something like septic tank cleaner or crash test dummy...

[rgG]

C(-)ris wrote:
I wish I could get Comcast. Stuck in a building that the owner won't let comcast wire. Sucks.

Seriously, you are a very lucky person. You may not know it, but you are.

[cbelt3]

Time Warned You is not *as* bad, but they're not good either.

If we were Windoze fanbois we'd be used to heartbreak and disappointment.

[Speedy]

"You have reached Comcast customer service. Please press 1. 'We are your friendly monopoly cable provider. You signed a contract. We now own your a$$ and your first born's a$$. You are screwed and we don't care about your petty problems. And there is nothing you or your elected officials can do about it. Nothing. We are Comcast. Bahahahahaha. Press 1 to hear this message again or just remain on the line to automatically hear this message again.' "

[numbered]

I was helping my college-student daughter set up Comcast in her new apartment. We both spent hours simultaneously on phone and chat trying to get problems resolved. When I heard my sweet, innocent daughter issue expletives like the proverbial longshoreman, I knew it finally got to her. She said that she now understood why I would shout at customer service types.....

One of several problems with the install: they shipped the new HD cable box needing 5 VDC. With it, they shipped a transformer providing 12 VDC. Whisky Tango Foxtrot? The box would blink in a way the customer service reps claimed it could not. (I checked the voltage requirements because I found a Comcast forum claiming this had been a problem.)

[Bimwad]

Their elimination of ClearQAM is also forcing a day of reckoning for many folks.

Due to the topography here, I've been reluctant to go OTA, but I may be climbing in the attic soon to at least give it a try.