At home, Comcast is my one choice for "high speed" Internet. That -- for the most part -- works ok, although in the past some months it's started to drop for o

At home, Comcast is my one choice for "high speed" Internet. That -- for the most part -- works ok, although in the past some months it's started to drop for one or several hours at a time, which has me worried. (I've heard and read that others are not so lucky.) The pricing they offer means it's about the same to get Internet alone or to purchased it bundled with basic cable, so I have basic cable from them as well. I turn it on, once in a while, and the quality I've observed has decreased markedly in the last couple of years. It seems that very frequently, one or another channel has a major technical glitch. These will -- when I check -- persist for hours or even days. In addition, with the transition to digital, sometimes programs flip mid-scene between different display modes and ratios. A lot of digital artifacting from overly constrained bandwidth, particularly on the "less desirable", i.e. Hispanic, channels -- also at times PBS (gee, I wonder why). Keep in mind that, being basic cable, the final leg is still analog and so is not the problem. What I gather from the programming is that all the channels are more or less under combined control, anyway. The same 5 movies are on different channels, in slightly different timeframes/rotations. A lot else seems the same: "That 70's Show" and "Men" seem to be on every channel. Even though I'm "paying" for it, Comcast displays no interest in even technically maintaining, much less programming, the basic channels. This has left me with no confidence in their being a corporate "good citizen". If you aren't the fattest part of their revenue stream, they couldn't care less.