CA2OR Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Today is a wonderful day. I just saved $90+ on my cable, internet, and phone bill's....plus a bunch of headaches....at the same time I raised my up and down speeds to 25mb each way. How do you ask? By ditching comcast's incompetent arses. I am so happy. The most rewarding part about it was listening to comcast beg to keep me....like Mcdonalds says....I'm loving it. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefnjunkie Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Today is a wonderful day. I just saved $90+ on my cable, internet, and phone bill's....plus a bunch of headaches....at the same time I raised my up and down speeds to 25mb each way. How do you ask? By ditching comcast's incompetent arses. I am so happy. The most rewarding part about it was listening to comcast beg to keep me....like Mcdonalds says....I'm loving it. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk That is who I am stuck with-if the wind blows to hard I loose wireless, or if it rains to hard-gladly I live in Portland and rain is something we only see 266 days out of 365. What did you switch to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this FIOS and Vonage for phone....FIOS is honoring promotions for length of contract....we are getting over 100 channels more than we had....I actually put comcasts crappy equipment outside on the porch and let them know they should probably come get it fast just in case it rains Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciao Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Yeah, FIOS rocks! When I moved here from Corvallis, where I had Comcast, they said they would charge me $40 to rehook it up here in Beaverton. This really annoyed me since I was a pre-existing customer and they usually have some kind of deal for free installation. I said screw it and went to dish and fortunately FIOS was available in my area already. Comcast speeds always sucked in Corvallis and I was luck to get 20kB/sec. upload. Went the Qwest DSL route and was getting roughly 80kB/sec upload for the same price. When I got the FIOS here in Beaverton, I'm getting ~180kB/sec upload and 1.1 MB/sec download upload for the price of my old DSL. I'll never go with Comcast if I can help it. Couldn't stand all those hidden fees................a franchise fee really piss#d me off when I started seeing it on the bill! Even went the Dish Network route to avoid them! I think the only way I would ever go back to them is if they offered ala cart programming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefnjunkie Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I only have comcrap for my phone and internet-I am on an old plan through Direct TV and would not switch- But would kick the phone and internet to the curb if there was something more appealing. I feel sorry for anyone that has comcast cable-They feed on the Blazer fans since they own a monopoly on those broadcasts-for now anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I have comcast and have not had any problems with the internet or cable. I had Direct TV but will never get them again. I liked the NFL sunday ticket but cancelled when i moved last year. Major ripoff artists! We cancelled their service and they said since we got another DVR that that committed us to another 2 year contract even though there was nothing stating this and charged us 300 bucks for breaking the contract early! Piss poor customer service. Could not speak to anyone who had a brain cell and they refused to let me speak to anyone with a brain cell. Probably are all sharing one brain cell between them. Reported them to the BBB and still no resolution. Then they had the nerve 2 months later to charge our credit card even more money.(flame) Major greedy a holes. Sad part is I probably would have switched back to them but never again!(scratch) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this lame customer service? you sure you arent talking about comcast? their techs are a joke...both their tier one and tier two's...give us REAL techs a bad rap. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this did I mention verizon also discounts our cell service for being fios customers? also I can program our dvr from my phone....nice Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 lame customer service? you sure you arent talking about comcast? their techs are a joke...both their tier one and tier two's...give us REAL techs a bad rap. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk At last I could speak to a person at Comcast more fun then yelling at a computer voice! I agree Comcast can be bad but Direct TV actually made me appreciate them. That's saying more about my truly awful experience with Direct TV. I have verizon cell service but was going to wait and see if FIOS was all it's cracked up to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciao Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I have not had one bad thing happen on FIOS from a service or price standpoint. Super fast speed and reliable. I get close to the advertised speed and don't have the speed fluctuations I had with Comcast waaaaaaaaaaaaay back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Algae Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 LOL. Yeah, but is so much fun gripping. When I cancelled they told me that I had to have a reason! I told them that that was illegal to require a reason. So they just hawwed around and finally I told then that my reason for cancelling service was "that the sky is blue, when it is not cloudy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this they tried to do the same thing and my "reason" that I gave them was because they suck and I am sick of it Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I love comcast. I get a ton of HD channels, super fast internet that never has connection problems, and I call them every 6 months to have 50-70 bucks knocked off my bill for 6 months at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackaninny Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Haven't seen the HD quality on FIOS but on Comcast it was HORRIBLE - they compressed the living cr@p out of every HD station they carried. Comcast DVR wasn't even worth the trip to the garbage can to throw it out. DirecTV does a nice job with their HD channels - customer service is just OK but most of my account management is done through their website so it's kind of a push. The iPhone app they have makes it dead simple to record something on the DVR if I'm away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefcam Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Does FIOS give you a fix IP address? if you renew the IP address on your router, do you get the same IP address back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Haven't seen the HD quality on FIOS but on Comcast it was HORRIBLE - they compressed the living cr@p out of every HD station they carried. Comcast DVR wasn't even worth the trip to the garbage can to throw it out. DirecTV does a nice job with their HD channels - customer service is just OK but most of my account management is done through their website so it's kind of a push. The iPhone app they have makes it dead simple to record something on the DVR if I'm away. My dad has DirecTV and everytime he's at my place he makes a statement about how much clearer my HD is compared to his. Different areas i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 I thought Direct TV's picture quality was a little better but did I mention their customer service sucks! sucks! sucks! and they are rip off artists! My comcast picture quality is fine but it could be the sony tv I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7Max-GTE Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I considered becoming a comcast tech because I am bad at network stuff :] I asked the guy who did my setup (the jerks lock their box outside so I couldn't hook up my own internet...then they hooked up the wrong line on me.) what certifications he had...A+, Net+, CCNA, MCSE...He said he had none, and comcast does their own training. I loled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackaninny Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this My dad has DirecTV and everytime he's at my place he makes a statement about how much clearer my HD is compared to his. Different areas i guess. So many variables here such as dish alignment, HDTV settings, set top box connections and on and on. If you hop on the Google you can see I'm not the only one noticing the picture quality at Comcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Re: I have been waiting for this well I have had direct tv, dish, comcast, and now fios....so far fios takes the cake. I have 42" Sony Bravia so tv helped on a lot but as stated fios has seriously brought the wow factor back Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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