Comcast Sucks!!!!

[thronka]

ATTBI has always had 25 MB space.. not 60. I am still (well my dad) has his website running there and it was 25, not 60. WE still haven't changed over yet becasue of the switching stuff.

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by thronka
ATTBI has always had 25 MB space.. not 60. I am still (well my dad) has his website running there and it was 25, not 60. WE still haven't changed over yet becasue of the switching stuff.

Sorry, you're wrong. ATTBI gave 10mb of web space for each email address on the account. You can have up to 6 email addresses. That's 60mb of space. I know because I'm using most of that space.

[vicarious george]

Check it out:

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by Bertus02 Do you have a link or something that says that comcast is discontiung usenet. i have been on attbi for a couple years and they are switching to comcast. i am a avid usent user and this would truelly suck. there are pay usent sites like easynews.com which run around 10 bucks a month.

As a Comcast High-Speed Internet customer, you will receive 1 gigabyte of downloads FREE per month

Comcast does not have their own news servers like ATTBI had. They make their customer go through Giganews. As a Comcast customer we will get 1GB per month of free downloading from a Giganews account. Over that limit and we'll have to pay. 1GB could easily be downloaded in just a couple hours.


http://online.comcast.net/help/faq-d...CategoryID=129

http://online.comcast.net/help/faq-d...sp?intFaqID=48

[osprey4]

So what's the problem? They send you a modem, it doesn't cost you anything extra, and perchance they actually improve the system by means of the upgrade.

[squeech]

I must say that is an interesting letter indeed!

Although, it is not uncommon to see this. DSL and Cable internet use many different types of technology to reach different kinds of customers. I know that when we finally received DSL in our area, we had to connect to the central office through a remote server in the area, and not directly. This required us to use a different modem than others I knew who used the same service who had the freedom to choose.

While it is a slight inconvenience, especially if you bought the modem you use now separately, this is not something that only Comcast does, and I can't really find it in me to blame them.

You'll have to post the specs on the modem when it comes (model no. and such) as I'm curious to check it out versus the one I have picked out to purchase in case they tell me the same thing!

[vicarious george]

Originally posted by osprey4
So what's the problem? They send you a modem, it doesn't cost you anything extra, and perchance they actually improve the system by means of the upgrade.

Actually it does. If you read the letter, it says "If this new modem is replacing a LanCity modem that you currently own and do not lease from Comcast, this replacement modem will be yours to keep."

Well I do not own a LanCity modem, nor do I lease one. The whole reason I bought the Linksys was to avoid the monthly rental fee. And I sure was not paying AT&T $200 to buy it outright.

Now I either have to lease the Motorolla or buy it outright from Comcast. (I have yet to check the price, but I'm sure it's no bargain). This leaves me stuck with a perferctly good $100 Linksys modem, all to continue using a service that worked fine under AT&T.

Now can you see why I think it's a problem?

[rockpile]

Habe you actually contacted them yet to see if your current modem may actually work they seem to be talking about customers who already have one of their old modems and do not own theirs like you. I would actually call them first and see if your current one will work where mine does and I see no reason why it wouldnt.