StryfeX
10-11-03, 06:35
/set rant_mode 1
Ok, this is more of a buyer beware thread than anything, but it also gives me a nice place to vent.
(This is only dealing with the U.S. since I don't think Comcast services any other countries.) So, what am I venting about you ask? Well, it's Comcast cable. Players using Comcast who are within about a 1 state radius of Chicago might have noticed some pretty hefty lag over the last 3 months at times, especially in the evening hours and even more so in the evening hours on weekends.
It appears that Comcast has decided to completely fuck their customers in the ass this time and I'm sick and tired of it. I, for one, am looking for other broadband providers in my area.
So anyway, here's an "official" post by Kevin (whom, I should also note, seems to be the only one that's remotely helpful in the company) showing that Comcast was aware of the problem by Sept. 11, 2003, if not before. Also note that there's *41* pages on that thread since it was started.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_2.jpg
(On a side note, Comcast probably won't like the fact that I posted stuff from their official customer-only Help Forums, but at this point, they can go shove it where the sun don't shine.)
As I was looking through the thread, I found references to an even earlier thread that was either deleted or locked. I'm willing to bet it was completely deleted since I can't find the actual thread anywhere. Apparently it was of the same nature as this thread, meaning that it was about lots of people being rather irate at Comcast's piss-poor service.
And here's a post that I made tonight showing my pingtimes.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_3.jpg
(Yes, that story about crashing a server with lag is true... It was one of clan [Xit]'s Firearms servers. Soz, guys.)
Note that it's on page 41. When I went and checked on it about 5 minutes later, there were already about 6 more posts then when I posted. They also auto-edit posts and block out words as benign as "crap", (o_O) hence all the little asterisks in my post. :p
Now check out this pic, in which you can see that there's only one more forum that's bigger than the Connections problem forum. Which is pretty damn sad in my opinion.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_1.jpg
In closing, I would stress that you NOT get Comcast broadband. When it's good, it can be very good, but when it goes down, you will be in for more hurt, more incompitence, and more stonewalling than even KK about Monk-o-cron. (That was a semi-joke, btw.)
Ok, that's it for me.
*steps off the soapbox*
/set rant_mode 0
--Stryfe
Ok, this is more of a buyer beware thread than anything, but it also gives me a nice place to vent.
(This is only dealing with the U.S. since I don't think Comcast services any other countries.) So, what am I venting about you ask? Well, it's Comcast cable. Players using Comcast who are within about a 1 state radius of Chicago might have noticed some pretty hefty lag over the last 3 months at times, especially in the evening hours and even more so in the evening hours on weekends.
It appears that Comcast has decided to completely fuck their customers in the ass this time and I'm sick and tired of it. I, for one, am looking for other broadband providers in my area.
So anyway, here's an "official" post by Kevin (whom, I should also note, seems to be the only one that's remotely helpful in the company) showing that Comcast was aware of the problem by Sept. 11, 2003, if not before. Also note that there's *41* pages on that thread since it was started.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_2.jpg
(On a side note, Comcast probably won't like the fact that I posted stuff from their official customer-only Help Forums, but at this point, they can go shove it where the sun don't shine.)
As I was looking through the thread, I found references to an even earlier thread that was either deleted or locked. I'm willing to bet it was completely deleted since I can't find the actual thread anywhere. Apparently it was of the same nature as this thread, meaning that it was about lots of people being rather irate at Comcast's piss-poor service.
And here's a post that I made tonight showing my pingtimes.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_3.jpg
(Yes, that story about crashing a server with lag is true... It was one of clan [Xit]'s Firearms servers. Soz, guys.)
Note that it's on page 41. When I went and checked on it about 5 minutes later, there were already about 6 more posts then when I posted. They also auto-edit posts and block out words as benign as "crap", (o_O) hence all the little asterisks in my post. :p
Now check out this pic, in which you can see that there's only one more forum that's bigger than the Connections problem forum. Which is pretty damn sad in my opinion.
http://home.comcast.net/~cydog2001/comcast_sucks/comcast_sucks_1.jpg
In closing, I would stress that you NOT get Comcast broadband. When it's good, it can be very good, but when it goes down, you will be in for more hurt, more incompitence, and more stonewalling than even KK about Monk-o-cron. (That was a semi-joke, btw.)
Ok, that's it for me.
*steps off the soapbox*
/set rant_mode 0
--Stryfe