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

[Peter Smith]

http://www.wowway.com/our-products/bundles/mid-michigan ... Apparently WOW
*is* available here...but not their 30MBit or 50MBit services. I'll have to
ponder it in the morning. :)


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David Crampton <dave.crampton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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