<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm not a fan of the forced donation of power for hotspots either, but so far for me Comcast has been less of a liar than AT&T, whose DSL offering maxed out at 1.5M, and who was willing to keep telling me to reset my equipment when a simple check of their equipment would clear out the problem....<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[Disclaimer]<br>
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I gave up on Comcast years ago. Even if they offered me twice the<br>
bandwidth they do now at half the price they do now, I would refuse. I<br>
got tired of all the lies they told me (multiple documented occasions)<br>
years ago. I can tolerate incompetence or ignorance but malice<br>
aforethought will not stand. I have plenty of bitching points with ATT<br>
Uverse but, at least, willful lies are not one of them...<br>
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That all being said...<br>
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[/Disclaimer]<br>
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The saga of Comcast using your premises and your electricity to promote<br>
THEIR wifi services is well documented. I saw this first hand just this<br>
last month where the clutter of Xfiniti public access points (on all<br>
possible channels) were drowning out (beaconing) the legitimate services<br>
in a residential neighborhood, making non-xfiniti services unreliable<br>
even within a single home where we were staying.<br>
<br>
The horror stories of their so called "customer support" is also well<br>
documented... Safe advice is now to ALWAYS record any support call with<br>
Comcast... Latest in that saga...<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141231/01553029553/yet-another-horrible-comcast-customer-service-experience-goes-viral.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141231/01553029553/yet-another-horrible-comcast-customer-service-experience-goes-viral.shtml</a><br>
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Now, they are increasing your "rental fees" by 25% for the privilege of<br>
providing their "service" to their customers using your facilities. The<br>
rental fee on "their" cable modem is going up...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/on-comcast-buy-your-own-modem/" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/on-comcast-buy-your-own-modem/</a><br>
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I still have a couple of my old DOCSIS 2 modems from the last time I was<br>
wasting my time with Comicalcast. But now, at $120 a year to rent their<br>
"we advertise our own open service from your property" modems, why is<br>
anyone still renting their modems? Morotola DOCSIS 3 cable modems are<br>
starting around $70 on Amazon? That's what? 7 MONTHS return on<br>
investment?!?! And you are not providing them with free electricity and<br>
facilities for their network or cluttering the air with their access<br>
point beacons. How do they continue to get away with this???<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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