I Hate Comcast With a Fiery Passion - Page 6

On June 25 2012 13:01 .kv wrote:
I've tried AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast (in that order) and I'm shocked to see so much for Comcast when AT&T U-Verse (from my experience) is atrocious. From the quality of their internet (ping rather high ~357ms) to their customer support, it was pushed to a point where I relied on myself and the interwebz to solve my issues (using my phone). Luckily I was able to get FiOS in my area and we switched to that. And WOW. I absolutely loved it. I never had consistent hickups (powercycle about once every 2 weeks or so). I had a bad ass ping (5ms). And the speed was just gorgeous for me (15/5). However I moved and was stuck between AT&T and Comcast. I went with Comcast after my horrific experience with AT&T. I had moments where I would receive a very high ping during nights and consistent hickups. However, Comcast's support was actually pretty good in my experience but coming from Verizon FiOS it was really hard to top off the quality I received from FiOS; I can't talk about Verizon's support since I never had to call them. Now the ping wasn't as good as Verizon's (20ms) but download speed was better. The upload speed however was a bit lower than FiOS and I was more about the upload speed than the download speed and I still am since I like streaming and uploading stufff. Plus if I have over 15mbps for downloading, I'm satisfied.

Now this can all be due to the place I reside in (TX).

P.S Typed this up using my phone's data just so I'm not forced to sign a 1year contract with AT&T. I rather wait over a month (now 2 weeks left) when I move to a place that has FiOS available.

On June 25 2012 15:54 ghrur wrote:


Le sigh.

Pretty sure that wasn't the case considering they didn't really have us do anything. And given that my dad's a computer science major, with a master's degree, who works on network development, and has built his own computer before, and understands how the internet works, he would have known if it were something on our end that caused the problem. And I'm quite sure we don't do either of those as we usually power cycle the modem/router when the internet just randomly decides to stop working and our computers can't connect to it at all.

But thanks for assuming I don't know shit and belittling me.

On June 27 2012 12:03 FlyingToilet wrote:
what is up with comcast? my internet says its fine with ping and dl/ up rate but when i stream or play games its like im watching a slideshow... are they testing the internet servers or something? like verizon did the night before, and why illusion was dropping frames like crazy. Also i would assume destiny uses comcast or something because his stream is dropping mad amount of frames right now, comcast sucks and so does not having fiber optics! :-(