[ale] Xfinity Modem -- lease or buy recoomendations

[DJ-Pfulio]

You can call BS all you want.  Personal experience.

They put in a separate coax line here just for CATV and a residential
CATV account. Didn't cost me a penny. How is your land zoned?  I bet the
TV tech was a contractor. The Business Tech was a comcast employee.
Depending on who came last, I could see you getting something they
aren't supposed to do "because it is easier/quicker" and the contractors
are paid by the task, not the effort.

After the line was dropped, and 3 months later when it hadn't been
buried yet, I called about kids tripping on it in my yard. The 1 inch
deep trench was dug 3 days later.

I was also told that with static IPs (have 5), that I had to lease their
equipment.


On 09/29/2015 05:55 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> I have to call BS on the statement that residential address can't get TV
> over the same cable as business... Being as how I'm writing this email
> on a Xfinity Business class internet line while we watch residential TV
> in the bedroom & living room. We only have one cable line from the box
> in the yard to the house.
> 
> On 9/29/2015 11:23 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> On 09/29/2015 10:51 AM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> I felt the same way until yesterday when I got a text that we had
>>> reached 90% of our 300G. In researching our usage I found that up until
>>> July we used less than 60G. Our household has jumped from my wife and I
>>> to 9 people in mid August, so our numbers started to increase rapidly.
>>> After going round robin with sales and support we found that they are
>>> giving you a 3 month grace period where they will not charge more. (The
>>> actual wording was that for every month you go over you get 1 month
>>> overage N/C). After that it's $10 for every 50G extra. They are also
>>> rolling out a trial no cap in Nov. for $39.99 over our current package
>>> which is the extreme (105) staying in the residential service. From what
>>> what I could see that is close to what I'd pay for the bundled business
>>> package. We currently have a 3 pak so I don't know what the equiv would
>>> be in the business side.
>> 3-pak?  Is that "triple-pay"?
>>
>> Residential addresses can't get TV over the same cable as the business
>> ISP. It is a utility commission thing. Roughly, business connections
>> provide 50% less bandwidth for the same price as a residential plan.
>>
>> Don't forget that today is 9/29 - just a few days shy of the month. But
>> check your billing cycle dates to be sure.
>>
>> Comcast phone service is VERY expensive at $30/month - about 3x more
>> than reputable VoIP services. I pay $5/month with free inbound calling.
>> Email off list if you want to know more.
>>
>> I'd have a household meeting to discuss the current situation and come
>> up with a solution, especially if these are adults.
>>
>> $10 might not be a big deal if the house is full of adults.  If kids are
>> causing the huge bandwidth use - that is a completely different thing,
>> IMHO.  Many routers have time of day limit controls that can be enforced
>> by MAC.  I'd want to know exactly what the traffic was.
>>