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07-03-2008, 04:50 PM
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Comcast Going Up And Down Like a $10 Whore
Allrighty, I made my 9th support call into Comcast for yet another outage yesterday and the day before.
Last night, I got a call after forcing them to schedule a tech, and 'lo and behold, my connection has gotten stable again and the tech who called me late last night says "we fixed the problem and is it OK to cancel the visit?" I said "OK". Last time they sent a tech it was a hottie, but oh well. So now that I am working from home more often b/c my I-net connection at work sucks... I attached this to the outside leads to my house:  It's strange... the DC power converter has a 12 volt COAX output, which you plug into the upper left side. I then routed the signal cable through this amp, which is advertised to raise the incoming signal by +15dB, and the return signal (upload) by -5dB. Hopefully this will stop the modem from losing signal again. We'll see. As far as all my DTV boxes and my DVR box, they have all been working fine, but I suspect the cable modem needs a louder and clearer signal to work.
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07-03-2008, 04:53 PM
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Speed Test
Hmm... so far so good.
I just went to SpeedTest.net Downlink Speed: 23,293 kb/s Uplink Speed: 1,581 kb/s Server Used: Chicago, IL
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07-03-2008, 06:48 PM
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Comcast cable internet is HIGHLY OVERRATED...
We tried them for several months: -lousy customer service -nowhere near the speeds advertised -Verizon DSL knocks the socks off Comcast in our experience -if you go over a certain amount of bandwidth they actually slow down your connect speed so you can barely even stream any media content -even if you have 'unlimited' service, apparently if you go over a certain amt of bandwidth, they up your rate significantly
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Peace, John My Librarything MySpace My E-Bay World . . . . "The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”" -Randy Pausch, from "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," also known as The Last Lecture
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07-11-2008, 03:13 AM
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Chicago server? Crazy...when I use comcast it comes from a server that actually says something like "columbusblvdphiladelphia". Although I hate comcast, it made me feel close to them.
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07-11-2008, 03:03 PM
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home->comcast->"else wher eon the net"->Chicago Speedtest.net server. If you think you're having signal problems you can check the signal in the router by going to 192.168.100.1 or on your set top box by hitting "Power" and then the Select Button. In Sequence. (After you hit power you've got ~1-2 seconds to hit select). This brings up a diagnostics menu and in there you can browse for ratings on Signal Strength and Signal to Noise Ratio.. Though i forget exactly which menu they're under. But point being.. if you have a weak signal a booster can help. If you have a noisy signal.. a boster won't help as it boosts the noise and the signal together...
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07-11-2008, 03:18 PM
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Where?
Where does one find a $10 whore?
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