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> my Comcast goes out a few times a day I’m really sorry to read this. Given that you’re a Comcast customer it’s probably because you have no other viable high

> my Comcast goes out a few times a day I’m really sorry to read this. Given that you’re a Comcast customer it’s probably because you have no other viable high speed choices, but please know that regular outages at home are not normal in other parts of the world.

emodendroket 6y ago
What’s he meant to do with this information?
- herewulf 6y ago
  Lament alongside the rest of us Comcast customers paying our "protection money".
nonameiguess 6y ago
Lol, this is great to know but I live in downtown Dallas within spitting distance of AT&T world headquarters and literally the only "high speed" provider available to me is Spectrum (I can't explain why AT&T itself can't provide service to someone in walking distance of their own corporate headquarters compound - do they even provide service to themselves?). It goes out on me all the damn time. Heck, I lost service a few weeks back because someone moving into the house next door accidentally gave the wrong address when signing up for a new service account and Spectrum canceled my account, assuming I'd moved out since apparently someone else was moving into my house. I have never been madder at a service provider of any service. But there is nothing I can do, at least not for six more months until Starlink finally goes online in my area and sends me a dish. This in what? The heart of the 4th largest metro area in the richest nation on the planet? Maybe this is legitimately not a problem in most of the developed world, but U.S. residential communications infrastructure is amazingly pathetic.
astrange 6y ago
Mine has never gone out, but when I had AT&T DSL it dropped whenever it rained and it was impossible to fix. (the other mystery being why we only had 1.5MBit DSL in the middle of Atlanta.)

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> my Comcast goes out a few times a day I’m really sorry to read this. Given that you’re a Comcast customer it’s probably because you have no other viable high

by oarsinsync 6y ago

emodendroket 6y ago
What’s he meant to do with this information?
- herewulf 6y ago
  Lament alongside the rest of us Comcast customers paying our "protection money".
nonameiguess 6y ago
Lol, this is great to know but I live in downtown Dallas within spitting distance of AT&T world headquarters and literally the only "high speed" provider available to me is Spectrum (I can't explain why AT&T itself can't provide service to someone in walking distance of their own corporate headquarters compound - do they even provide service to themselves?). It goes out on me all the damn time. Heck, I lost service a few weeks back because someone moving into the house next door accidentally gave the wrong address when signing up for a new service account and Spectrum canceled my account, assuming I'd moved out since apparently someone else was moving into my house. I have never been madder at a service provider of any service. But there is nothing I can do, at least not for six more months until Starlink finally goes online in my area and sends me a dish. This in what? The heart of the 4th largest metro area in the richest nation on the planet? Maybe this is legitimately not a problem in most of the developed world, but U.S. residential communications infrastructure is amazingly pathetic.
astrange 6y ago
Mine has never gone out, but when I had AT&T DSL it dropped whenever it rained and it was impossible to fix. (the other mystery being why we only had 1.5MBit DSL in the middle of Atlanta.)