Uncharacteristic Comcast service this evening

masinick · Last edited by masinick on Sun Sep 14, 2024 4:09 am; edited 1 time in total

OK, people have been getting on the case of Comcast lately, and frankly, I'd like to see some competition for them in my area for phone, Internet, and cable TV service. My most recent bill for HDTV cable with the sports package, VOIP phone service, and Broadband Internet with Power Boost was $162 with taxes. Wow!

I can't wait until Verizon offers FIOS in my area, but I'd really like to see about a half dozen options. They are all too expensive, in my opinion.

I feel all the more so this evening. I finally subscribed to a $3/day wireless service with FON because I was getting 35,000 MS response times on 56 bit ping packets to Yahoo! That's right, the high powered, fast Comcast, which usually gives me a solid 784 KBs base performance with power boosts up to 16 MBs, or about 2024-2100 KBs, can barely get out a half dozen packets of 56 bytes each in a minute! Today a 56 KB modem would do better, so I purchased FON wireless for $3/day and things are back to normal, so it WAS Comcast that was acting up. Holding back my 250 GB per month, huh? This is a good way to do it!

I just reached a one year anniversary with Comcast back at my home address. I had been away for nine months at another address, also using Comcast. They offered me a $159/month bundle, pretty much what I have now. Wish i had other options, and I'd consider taking them. i do like the speed I usually get; this is a VERY RARE problem.

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pbharris · Member Joined: 02 Jul 2024 Posts: 320 Location: chicago

hello,
i have not noticed anything funny with my comcast service - here are a few (typical) ping times for me:

masinick · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2024 4:08 am Post subject:

I suspect the problem is local, either in the local branch or even in my outside connection. Moving over to FON tells me that the Internet as a whole is working just fine. Of course, FON is nowhere near as fast as Comcast. If things are not back to normal tomorrow, I will put in a service call. For now, I am making due with a $3/day wireless service and that is fine.

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masinick · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2024 1:40 am Post subject:

I wrote in another post in Networking that network problems seem to have a correlation to the weather. Tonight the response is awesome - 20 -40 ms ping response to yahoo, which is fine and yields instant results. We had rain earlier, but it wasn't too heavy. If it acts up later, or tomorrow, I will still suspect a moisture issue and log a service call to have them check the outside interface and connections. Otherwise my service is superb.

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