[Novalug] comcast vs. verizon

Scott Talbert swt@techie.net
Thu Aug 2 21:02:26 EDT 2012


You can buy the cable modems that also do VOIP (EMTA's).  They sell them 
at Best Buy (or at least they used to).

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> Well, it also has to do VOIP. I think they split the cable if you buy
> their TV.
>
> JIM
>
> On 8/2/2012 6:52 AM, William Sutton wrote:
>> I recommend buying your own cable modem.  Usually a cable modem is in
>> the $30 range.  That pays for itself in 6 months at $5/month.  After 6
>> months, if you're still renting the cable company's cable modem, you're
>> throwing $5/month away.  If you don't mind throwing $5/month away, talk
>> to me about depositing it directly into my checking account :-)
>>
>> William Sutton
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/18/2012 2:16 PM, sean@mcgowanet.com wrote:
>>>> I know this has been discussed a little recently, and I even responded
>>>> touting how awesome I thought fios is; however, simply because I am
>>>> moving, verizon will not let me keep the price that I have been
>>>> paying for
>>>> internet and wants to jack it up by 36%.  Moving, according to them,
>>>> means
>>>> that I must start a new account.  So, not enjoying being bullied to pay
>>>> 69.99-74.99/mo. for 15/5 internet, I set up with comcast.
>>>
>>> How hard did you try pushing back? Did you tell them..."If you take that
>>> stance with me, I will simply go to Comcast"? Besides...New Customers
>>> often get Sweetheart Deals.
>>>
>>> Customer Service is actually Pretty Decent. Even wait times for home
>>> visits are shorter than they used to be. If you lost Service for even a
>>> Day they will Credit you, and they can often be arm-twisted into making
>>> better deals in order to keep you from switching to VZ.
>>>
>>>> My questions are as follows:
>>>> 1.)  Am I crazy?  I have been burned by comcast before with random
>>>> outages
>>>> and while they say I will get 30/6, I am a little skeptical.  How is
>>>> comcast's performance these days (I will be in Ashburn)?
>>>
>>> I am in Montgomery County MD, specifically Damascus. Comcast is mostly
>>> Rock Solid. Outages have been getting rarer.
>>>
>>> Remember that underneath "Comcast" is "whatever cable company they
>>> bought", at least until they have rebuilt it. Some areas were better
>>> than others.
>>>
>>> Our original company was called Cable TV Montgomery, and I have been a
>>> customer in the same house since 1986.
>>>
>>>> 2.)  comcast has a datacap of 250GB.  the salesperson swears there is no
>>>> throttling, simply a letter is sent to offer other services.  Has anyone
>>>> had any experience with this?
>>>
>>> Yes, they do, but it's about as enforced as often as Jaywalking. I have
>>> exceeded it several times (May, 478, Jun, 248, July 398) and never
>>> noticed any throttling.
>>>
>>>> 3.)  If I do continue down this path, I will need to purchase a cable
>>>> modem and a router.  I have been relying on the lousy actiontec with
>>>> FIOS,
>>>> but would like something I can flash if I am going to buy my own.  Does
>>>> anyone have any experience/reccomendations for these two items?
>>>
>>> I just rent their EMTA, the new name for their Cable Modem, for
>>> $5/month. It connects to a Linksys Router, which I reflashed with DDWRT.
>>> We also have our Phone thru them, and since we cut the wires to the
>>> outside, we can use our existing jacks. We get TV thru DirecTV, but I
>>> have had their TV as well and had no problems.
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> JIM
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Novalug mailing list
>>> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
>>> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>



More information about the Novalug mailing list