[GLLUG] Alright, I've had it with Comcast....

[David Crampton]

I just moved, and they tried to charge me a 50 dollar deposit as if I was a
new customer with a shaky credit rating. Well, my credit is good enough to
buy a house, and we hadn't had a late payment in five years. I had to call
twice, but they removed the deposit from our bill.
On Mar 31, 2013 12:22 AM, "Jason L. Froebe" <jason.froebe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen several wow trucks in Lansing on the way to work.  you may want
> to double check availability with them.
> On Mar 30, 2013 10:44 PM, "Peter Smith" <psmith.gllug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, looks like I'm about 8000 yards from the CO, 1.5 miles...either
>> just before, or just after, the cut off in performance. Unless someone pops
>> up and tells me they run an ISP here in town, I think I'll grab 2 years of
>> ACD. Thanks for the opinions, and feel free to keep 'em coming, I'm out of
>> town, can't really get moving on this till Monday.
>>
>> As for my Comcast service, I'm not too disappointed in it in general.
>> 3mbit down, 1mbit down, mostly up service. Just been sucking recently. Hrm.
>> Mebbe I should talk to a friend of mine in JAX who is a Comcast rep of some
>> sort. :) See if there's any way to keep a forward on my email for a bit. :)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Peter Christenson <pac1.mi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I would check to see how far away from the head-end for any DSL services
>>> first, but as far as it goes I was pleased with ACD's service, although
>>> full disclosure, I'm not currently able to use them because I'm outside the
>>> distance of usable DSL.
>>>
>>> I don't believe that WOW is in Lansing at this time, however I know that
>>> in mid Michigan they took over broadstripe, so they may have some work on
>>> there hands before they are as good in Chicago.... but I don't have there
>>> service ether. I'm stuck with comcast until I can find something better.
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Jason L. Froebe <jason.froebe at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> no idea about acd but I had wow in downtown Chicago and was very happy
>>>> with them
>>>>
>>>> Jason
>>>> On Mar 29, 2013 4:34 PM, "Peter Smith" <psmith.gllug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So, when I told them 'I don't want your crappy basic digital cable
>>>>> that I can't use', they dropped my rate to $70 a month, but then they
>>>>> cancelled my 400 yard change of service without telling me. So after
>>>>> waiting all day, I rescheduled it that night, to a week from
>>>>> then...tomorrrow. Now I find not only have they rescheduled me from
>>>>> tomorrow to next Thursday, but apparently they also want a deposit. WTF?
>>>>> After at least 8 years of being their customer? My payments weren't THAT
>>>>> bad!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyhow, who should I switch to for service in the Penn/496 area? I
>>>>> detest AT&T, which is all I seem to see when I poke around at places like
>>>>> movearoo.com. How's ACD.net? I've already got pricing from them, and
>>>>> I'm fine with DSL. Is there any other local provider friendly to us that I
>>>>> can use? And get ASAP? I'm starting to twitch in my new house without
>>>>> access!
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Peter Smith
>>>>>
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>> Peter Smith
>> psmith.gllug at gmail.com
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