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On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:10:07 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. The opposite was true with us. Sprint bought my phone company 25 years or so ago and they ran new underground fiber to the hubs and new underground CAT 3 to everyone. My DSL is a solid 10mb 24/7 The cable guys acted like their coax was already all the bandwidth they could ever use so they didn't do anything. It is still on poles tho so any little blow takes it out and a lot of that 40+ year old cable is starting to show it' s age. Until they give a ****, it won't get better. |
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#13
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TV sucks
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:40:23 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:10:07 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. The opposite was true with us. Sprint bought my phone company 25 years or so ago and they ran new underground fiber to the hubs and new underground CAT 3 to everyone. My DSL is a solid 10mb 24/7 The cable guys acted like their coax was already all the bandwidth they could ever use so they didn't do anything. It is still on poles tho so any little blow takes it out and a lot of that 40+ year old cable is starting to show it' s age. Until they give a ****, it won't get better. Our lines were always underground. Power and TV cable is still on poles here. There are places that have everything underground but only new communities. We are the oldest community in the area. |
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#14
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TV sucks
On 10/12/2018 11:10 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:50:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. I understand Comcast may be the gold standard up north but they are just the guy, who bought the guy, who bought the guy, down here and some of their "plant" was left over from South Florida cable 3 companies and 2 hardware generations ago. Irma may have been the best thing that could have happened to them, assuming they build back new and not just put another patch on a lousy network. My neighbor worked for the original company 30 years ago and now he is a Comcast consultant/contractor that they send when they are fixing to lose a big commercial customer. What I say is based on what he told my wife when they sent him to her club. (after the standard pitch) Similar history of Comcast up here. Comcast today is the result of at least two acquisitions of smaller cable companies. When cable was first available back in the late 70's, early 80's it was a small, local operation called "Cambell Communications". It time it was bought out by "Adelphia Cable" which in turn was bought out by Comcast. For years it had shaky service, similar to what you are experiencing in Florida but then they started what I was told was going to be a national project to upgrade all their equipment, cables and the equipment in customer's homes. I think it was when they rolled out the "Xfinity" name. Anyway, they did and the reliability of their service has been excellent since. They now offer three Internet speeds as well for home Wi-Fi. Basic is 25Mbs. For a faster connection they offer 75Mbs (which I have) and then a "Blast" service that is over 200Mbs. |
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#15
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:40:23 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:10:07 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. The opposite was true with us. Sprint bought my phone company 25 years or so ago and they ran new underground fiber to the hubs and new underground CAT 3 to everyone. My DSL is a solid 10mb 24/7 The cable guys acted like their coax was already all the bandwidth they could ever use so they didn't do anything. It is still on poles tho so any little blow takes it out and a lot of that 40+ year old cable is starting to show it' s age. Until they give a ****, it won't get better. Our lines were always underground. Power and TV cable is still on poles here. There are places that have everything underground but only new communities. We are the oldest community in the area. We were built in the early 1970’s. |
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#16
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TV sucks
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:53:22 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:40:23 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:10:07 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. The opposite was true with us. Sprint bought my phone company 25 years or so ago and they ran new underground fiber to the hubs and new underground CAT 3 to everyone. My DSL is a solid 10mb 24/7 The cable guys acted like their coax was already all the bandwidth they could ever use so they didn't do anything. It is still on poles tho so any little blow takes it out and a lot of that 40+ year old cable is starting to show it' s age. Until they give a ****, it won't get better. Our lines were always underground. Power and TV cable is still on poles here. There are places that have everything underground but only new communities. We are the oldest community in the area. We were built in the early 1970’s. Estero River Heights was incorporated in 1956 and my house was built in 63. These are all "on your lot houses", there was never a master builder. No two houses are alike here. Power (and TV cable) is overhead but phone is all underground. The only reason my phone and DSL was out is the fiber to copper conversion up at the end of the street is powered by the utility and they were down. The battery lasted about 30 hours and a few days later they dropped a generator up there. There were stories of vigilante homeowners, cracking into the boxes and hooking it up to their generator. Evidently it runs on a 5-15 plug. I would have done it if the box was in front of my house. Unfortunately POTS is not really that same old "plain" that it used to be. No more running the whole system from a central office battery. |
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:53:22 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:40:23 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:10:07 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. The opposite was true with us. Sprint bought my phone company 25 years or so ago and they ran new underground fiber to the hubs and new underground CAT 3 to everyone. My DSL is a solid 10mb 24/7 The cable guys acted like their coax was already all the bandwidth they could ever use so they didn't do anything. It is still on poles tho so any little blow takes it out and a lot of that 40+ year old cable is starting to show it' s age. Until they give a ****, it won't get better. Our lines were always underground. Power and TV cable is still on poles here. There are places that have everything underground but only new communities. We are the oldest community in the area. We were built in the early 1970’s. Estero River Heights was incorporated in 1956 and my house was built in 63. These are all "on your lot houses", there was never a master builder. No two houses are alike here. Power (and TV cable) is overhead but phone is all underground. The only reason my phone and DSL was out is the fiber to copper conversion up at the end of the street is powered by the utility and they were down. The battery lasted about 30 hours and a few days later they dropped a generator up there. There were stories of vigilante homeowners, cracking into the boxes and hooking it up to their generator. Evidently it runs on a 5-15 plug. I would have done it if the box was in front of my house. Unfortunately POTS is not really that same old "plain" that it used to be. No more running the whole system from a central office battery. There are some same houses, but when they developed the land, was a large area. Was rural area. Fairly rural still in 1979. Only 24,000 people, now near 80,000. Was safflower fields where is now a large mixed industrial / housing area. Headquarters of ATT, Peoplesoft, etc. one of the two main roads is Hopyard Blvd. when I moved here, was friends with a 90 year old guy who was born here. He said he was one of the kids in the tree in the movie Rebecca of .sunny brook Farm. Filmed on 2nd street. He said they rowed down Hopyard in the winter as was flooded. And grew hops for Guinness among others. Hops and cattle. |
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