i have charter.

charter rules here all but completely unchallenged. they actually seem to provide good service and a satisfactory product...in my experience that's rare for what basically amounts to a total monopoly in an area.

I had to quit EVE when I had Comcast. Very frequent disconnects, it was just too frustrating. My corp mates were employees of a IP company, they investigated my DC problem and saw "traffic shaping" being done by Comcast. In other words, they put delays on each user's packet send rate, so they could squeeze more subscribers into the available bandwidth. Apparently the deliberate interruptions/delays in my packets going back and forth to the CCP server were causing the DCs. When I talked to Comcast tech support about the DCs, the guy said, "Oh the trouble is with playing a game? Connect problems with online games aren't supported. Bye."

Then there were the frequent outages. The box on the light pole outside my house would fill with water and there would be an outage. They'd come get service running again, but they never replaced the box. So the problem would just repeat.

Eventually I moved to another town, which was in Verizon's monopoly zone instead of Comcast's. Have no problem with Verizon service and I can play EVE again.

I've learned that Comcasts service quality can vary greatly even from one road to another in the same town.

Last place I was at the reliability was terrible in the daytime. My new place has had zero drops for 3 weeks now.

Well, speaking of crappy ISPs, I'm not too thrilled about being on Verizon lately. If the CEO gets his way, in a few years I'll be paying exponentially more than I do now simply because I'm a "gamer" who also uses Netflix and other similar services.

I remember when People find out that Bell Canada throttle any traffic that is involved with games.

lucky for us that ruling was in gamer favor that Bell can't throttle anything.

I have xfinity from Comcast, switched my inaws from att to it (they did not have uverse in there area and my inlaws 1.2mb dsl was not cutting eve, and netfix) Things were ok, then we started getting random disconnects, so we ordered a new modem, I hooked it up, activated it, and then we were going fine for a week, then randomly we were disconnecting, again. My house we have 3 pc's 2 ipads, ps3, 2 rokus, 1 wireless tv, and 1 android tablet (stated to get an idea for the rest of the story.) I work in IT. So after a month I was at my wits end, I called up Comcast, and tell them my issue. I get a 'oh I need to send you to advanced support, please hold' I go 'ok cool' I get to advanced support and tell the guy my issue, and he goes 'oh I can fix that for you'
me: great!
him: i'll have to connect to your pc make a few changes, that will cost you $70.
me: come again?
him: yea I need to make a few changes...
me: *cutting him off* um no, its not my one computers its EVERYTHING in the house this is not a pc issue, its an issue on your end.
Him: Well I just need to connect to..
me: *cuts him off again* No... its on your end and this will cost me how much?
him: $70
me: you want to charge me $70 to fix something on your end? what the hell am I paying you idiots for.
him: well sir if you just let me..
me: no... its not my one computer, unless you are going to make a change on the router which you don't need to connect to my pc to do, or connect to every item I have, many of which are not pc's, then I am not paying you $70 to do what I pay you for in the first place.
him: well you don't have to, you can just go through normal support...
me: what the hell... fine have a good day *click*

I called back and got someone, and I explained to them the same issue and said 'if you send me to advanced support and try to charge me $70 to fix an issue on your end, i'll tell you to kiss my ass and cancel right now' the guy chuckled (I liked him) and told me to hold on.. well it turned out the idiots at Comcast forgot to put my stupid modem on there damn network. So even though I followed there instructions, there network kept dumping me.

It seems ok but now i'm having other issues.. sigh. Anyway, yea Comcast sucks. I have used Charter, Adelphia (before they got bought out) slime warner cable, dsl extreme, and fios, and seriously I have had more problems with Comcast then any other company.

Keep in mind that not that I hate comcast or anything. Speed been reliable and great. The biggest grip for me is that comcast wants me to pay the $200 cancellation fee for residential after upgrading to business class within the same provider... It doesn't make sense ...

"The Chicago Tribune is reporting that, over the next few months in Chicago, Comcast is turning on a feature that turns customer networks into public Wi-Fi hotspots. After a firmware upgrade is installed, 'visitors will use their own Xfinity credentials to sign on, and will not need the homeowner's permission or password to tap into their Wi-Fi signal. The homegrown network will also be available to non-subscribers free for several hours each month, or on a pay-per-use basis. Any outside usage should not affect the speed or security of the home subscriber's private network. [...] Home internet subscribers will automatically participate in the network's growing infrastructure, although a small number have chosen to opt out in other test markets.' The article specifically mentions that this capability is opt-out, so Comcast is relying on home users' property, electricity, and lack of tech-savvy to increase their network footprint."

Why did they want to throttle gaming traffic ?

I'm a tech for comcast in Indiana (go fix residential issues / install new service) ask away!

Also, lol a falcon.

Psh. You don't know how good you have it. Try logging in from China..

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Fellow Comcaster, Hi from Colorado

Having fun installing X1 yet?

Fellow Comcaster, Hi from Colorado

Having fun installing X1 yet?

Haha, I'm not a tech but when they installed our X1 here they guy did it totally wrong.

The guy put the MoCA filter right behind my DVR and it was blocking the signal to the other rooms in the house. So I took it off and put it where its supposed to be. On the drop right before it goes to the splitter for the house. All they had there was a regular ground block and not the filter.

I was gonna call them but decided I could fix it in less time it takes to call them.