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    • J
      Jason Banned @PSX_Defector
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      @PSX_Defector said:

      So judging by the rest of your post, I would expect that Comcast did fire it up, you just don't have wiring to the inside of your house. They should be able to extend the tap out to you, or you can trench a RG6 yourself. Before screaming at Comcast for something make sure your side is 100% up.

      My cables are all ran. Outside of the Demarc point is the utilities responsibility. I'm pretty sure I could get in trouble for messing with the lines on their side.

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        travisdh1 @RamblingBiped
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        @RamblingBiped Even better, if a tag get's moved to the wrong place they'll cut you off for 3 days before they send someone out to fix the problem. All of the big ISP companies are guilty until proven innocent in my book now. We literally had a TWC truck at the end of the drive, and we had lost internet access just before the truck pulls away. Called up support "We don't have anyone in the area, the best we can do is send a service truck in 2 days." I've never been so hot in my life. If we wouldn't have had hotspot access we would have lost 2.5 days of shipping product. So now we've got TWCBC and Com????.

        Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location. Don't get me started on the other location that's near the end of having any DSL signal.

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          NattNatt @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          This is the natural state of anything with a monopoly. Doesn't mean that they will not make an effort to show up on time, but it does mean that they have no reason to be concerned with customer service issues. Bad customer service is still better than what their competitor does... because they don't have one.

          So much this, where I was working last one company had a monopoly on EVERYTHING telecoms...was mental, £90 a month for 5GB...and 8p a MB overage charge...I don't see why any government would agree to a monopoly on that scale...just kills it...

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            dafyre @travisdh1
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            @travisdh1 said:

            Com???? is just slow

            In my circles, we call them Comcrash.

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @dafyre
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              @dafyre said:

              @travisdh1 said:

              Com???? is just slow

              In my circles, we call them Comcrash.

              I edited myself because they're a dirty word to me.

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                Jason Banned @travisdh1
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                @travisdh1 said:

                Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location

                Comcast is great as far as internet service here. You can get from 25mbps connections up to 250mbps. I had the 40meg connection at my last place. There customer service just sucks. Verizon has okay customer service but the DSL is slow and goes down a lot (Most because they aren't using the fiber like comcast is. We have a lot of fiber around (aside from the last mile) paid for by a federal grant (Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program), but while comcast has taken advantage of this free to use fiber (it's an OAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_network). Verizon has not and the majority of it is copper still.

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @Jason
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                  @Jason said:

                  @travisdh1 said:

                  Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location

                  Comcast is great as far as internet service here. You can get from 25mbps connections up to 250mbps. I had the 40meg connection at my last place. There customer service just sucks. Verizon has okay customer service but the DSL is slow and goes down a lot.

                  The only competition they have in the area is DSL. Neither of them offer any sort of decent speed for a reasonable price.

                  We used to have a WISP in the area as well, but I don't think they're still operating after the latest going out of business episode. One of the people that first started it back in the dialup days, latter his partner convinced him to sell the business to another company that it turned out was just in the business of buying local WISP. Literally all they did was buy up all the WISPs they could, and went out of business. I can't help but wonder if they were a front company for one of the big nationwide networks.

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                    BRRABill
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                    This topic could also have been called
                    "The Sun Rose Today"

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                      Jason Banned @travisdh1
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                      @travisdh1 said:

                      @Jason said:

                      @travisdh1 said:

                      Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location

                      Comcast is great as far as internet service here. You can get from 25mbps connections up to 250mbps. I had the 40meg connection at my last place. There customer service just sucks. Verizon has okay customer service but the DSL is slow and goes down a lot.

                      The only competition they have in the area is DSL. Neither of them offer any sort of decent speed for a reasonable price.

                      We used to have a WISP in the area as well, but I don't think they're still operating after the latest going out of business episode. One of the people that first started it back in the dialup days, latter his partner convinced him to sell the business to another company that it turned out was just in the business of buying local WISP. Literally all they did was buy up all the WISPs they could, and went out of business. I can't help but wonder if they were a front company for one of the big nationwide networks.

                      The WISP here is great aside from the Latency. I don't like latency though.

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                        Jason Banned
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                        It's connected. 150mb Advertised. 90 Actual. Not to bad.
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                          aaron-closed account Banned @Jason
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                            Dashrender @aaron-closed account
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                            @aaron said:

                            @Jason said:

                            Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

                            They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

                            It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

                            And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said:

                              @aaron said:

                              @Jason said:

                              Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

                              They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

                              It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

                              And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

                              We've lost the Republic and are solidly into Fascism/Corporatism.

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                                scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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                                @travisdh1 said:

                                @Dashrender said:

                                @aaron said:

                                @Jason said:

                                Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

                                They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

                                It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

                                And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

                                We've lost the Republic and are solidly into Fascism/Corporatism.

                                I thought that corporatism was the natural extension of a republic. Once you allow people to vote, you had the control to the media. Once the media is in control, businesses own the government. It is the direct concept of a republic to be controlled by those that control the media, which is quite naturally businesses.

                                It's not a loss of a republic, it is the pinnacle of it.

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                                • travisdh1T
                                  travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @travisdh1 said:

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  @aaron said:

                                  @Jason said:

                                  Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

                                  They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

                                  It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

                                  And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

                                  We've lost the Republic and are solidly into Fascism/Corporatism.

                                  I thought that corporatism was the natural extension of a republic. Once you allow people to vote, you had the control to the media. Once the media is in control, businesses own the government. It is the direct concept of a republic to be controlled by those that control the media, which is quite naturally businesses.

                                  It's not a loss of a republic, it is the pinnacle of it.

                                  That's the pinnacle of a Democracy, which is different than the Republic we were supposed to be. Really the US started in Fuedalism before the Constitution was enacted. With the Constitution a Republic was created. With the passage of the 12th and 17th amendments was changed to a Democracy. Which is how we get to today, where government has near direct control of business. Or is it business has near direct control of government? Either way, it's just bad for the little guy.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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                                    @travisdh1 said:

                                    That's the pinnacle of a Democracy, which is different than the Republic we were supposed to be.

                                    That's true, but a republic is just a slow democracy - some minor mitigating effect over a democracy but no mechanism to actually stop democracy problems. A Republic is less likely to cave to whims, but is exactly the same in its trends.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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                                      @travisdh1 said:

                                      Which is how we get to today, where government has near direct control of business. Or is it business has near direct control of government? Either way, it's just bad for the little guy.

                                      I think this thinking is what allows it to happen. The fault cannot be that of the government nor can it be of business. They act as they are told and are predictable. The fault is always with the people. Always.

                                      The problem is, business has control of the people. This is at the request and permission of the people, of course. But that is the essential problem. It's a democracy, the people control the government. But the businesses control the people. The people could stop it anytime they want, but they don't want.

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