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> An argument can be made the rental is worth it for the ability to tell them "if I can't get x speed off this Ethernet port, it's your fault, hands down, so fi
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
> An argument can be made the rental is worth it for the ability to tell them "if I can't get x speed off this Ethernet port, it's your fault, hands down, so fix it". Whether or not it's worth $10-15 a month depends on how much you loathe arguing with Comcast on the phone.
Have you actually done this? Because I have, and even after telling them, "I'm paying for 25 down and using your modem I'm barely pulling down 7." Their suggestion was that I should upgrade to 50 down.
I told them to go to Hell and switched to Fios.
- Bartweiss 8y agoYep, after trying this a few times I never got anything better than "might be temporary issues with traffic in your area" or "we have this more expensive package..." Which doesn't actually surprise me, since I doubt tech support can fix a problem that's essentially "we blatantly lied to you when we sold you this service".
- 0xffff2 8y agoCable companies have always sold a maximum speed. When you pay for "25 megabit" internet from a cable company, what you're really paying for is up to 25 megabits down. AFAIK, no cable company has ever guaranteed a minimum download speed of any kind.