Comcast is a joke

I say: Go Fuck yourself, Comcast!

Story: I recently moved into an apartment with my girlfriend, we hook up what I thought was the antannae for basic TV channels and lo and behold, we get free cable! Cool. SO I figure we can definitely get cable internet, and I figure if they discover the free cable and disconnect it but i get internet (much more important to me) than that will be ok. So I call them (i live in a rural area so they are the only cable provider) and the dumb bastards tell me that they dont provide *any* service to my building. Ive called 4 or 5 times now, but I get the same stupid shit. They are stupid. The problem is I cant tell them that Im getting free cable from them right now, so I keep saying "well my neighbors are getting cable internet, why cant I?" "Uh...sorry sir...our files show that we dont provide any service whatsoever to your building, so uh...im not sure how your neighbors are getting cable....Do they have a dish on the side of their apartment? Its possible they are getting DirectTV...Here, let me transfer you to them..*Click*..

Bastards. :mad:

Your not getting free cable, believe me they would have known.

Are you sure it's Comcast??? A lot of apartment complex's hook up with random cable companies to provide service and lock out Comcast. I used to live in an apartment like that. We could only get this seriously crappy cable with about 20 channels, we couldn't even get Comedy Central. We found out that the company was paying the apartment complex for the privalege of being the only cable provider to the entire place. Sucked.

That sounds like what might be happening, its probably included in the rent.

We don't have comcast here, instead we have charter.

At my old apartment complex, I was trying to get internet...and they send crap mail to everyone in my complex daily offering their services.

So I call them up...and they literally told me that if I wanted to get internet that I need to get everyone together in my complex and pay them 20,000$ if we want them to install internet and cable tv to us.

Mind you, my complex only had 7 units.

I couldn't believe they actually told me that.

Luckily though a local company did offer services.

So are you sure that you are getting cable from Comcast and not somewhere else???

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Originally Posted by TallulahGreen

We don't have comcast here, instead we have charter.

At my old apartment complex, I was trying to get internet...and they send crap mail to everyone in my complex daily offering their services.

So I call them up...and they literally told me that if I wanted to get internet that I need to get everyone together in my complex and pay them 20,000$ if we want them to install internet and cable tv to us.

Mind you, my complex only had 7 units.

I couldn't believe they actually told me that.

Luckily though a local company did offer services.

So are you sure that you are getting cable from Comcast and not somewhere else???

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LMAO 20 grand for 7 places, id rather look out a window.

Fuck Comcast

Get FIOS. It's twice as fast, twice as many channels, and it's cheaper.

Don't even go there. Comcast is awesome, they're just stupid.

I used to get free cable the same way your getting it then one day nothing. I say fuck comcast they have a monoploy over internet and cable here. Fuck them while you can.:pimp: :pimp: :pimp:

comcast fuckin sucks!!!not only does their product suck, our internet (and everyone we know that has comcast) just randomly stops working for awhile then will turn back on but their service sucks too.

im glad ive never heard of this comcast, it doesnt sound too popular with the consumers.

i have good ol' cox. since i can remember. i can remember being a tiny kid and having a little cheesy cable box.

yeah i got cox back home and it is the shit. a lil more exspensive than comcast but WAY worth it.

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Originally Posted by AlbinoRhino421

yeah i got cox back home and it is the shit. a lil more exspensive than comcast but WAY worth it.

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i have all sorts of cox. the internet, tv, and phone is cox. whole kit n kaboodle and all that jazz.

its nice. i have an awesome computer so my internet is covered, and my tv rules, even if i barely watch it. i just like movies and have a giant collection.

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Originally Posted by AlbinoRhino421

comcast fuckin sucks!!!not only does their product suck, our internet (and everyone we know that has comcast) just randomly stops working for awhile then will turn back on but their service sucks too.

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I've never had problems with our Comcast internet. Once it got working that is. We have a wireless setup in our house and when we first got set up with Comcast they made a big deal about how they should do the installation because wireless was so tricky. I said WTF, but once it was set up I couldn't play some of my online games. I figured it was some firewall in their router and called them up. I spent an hour on the phone with the guy but couldn;t get it working so they said they'd send someone out. Fine, just get it working.

The next day the guy shows up and is totally clueless. I knew a hell of a lot more than he did and I don't know that much. Why the hell send him at all? The guy was barely qualified to do a basic installation, certainly not solve a tech issue. He spent two hours, mostly on the phone talking to someone who had a little bit of a clue and couldn't figure anythnig out. Finally some other guy who ahppened to be in the area came by and told me that it probably would never work. Comcast routers suck and they put their own firewalls in that can't be gotten around. He said just switch it to a standard cable modem then go by my own wireless router. That worked perfectly and saved me $180. So, I figure they have at least one good employee.

^^^

That pretty much sums up Comcast. When I had comcast my internet always had problems. It would go down for absolutely no reasons sometimes days at a time. Only reason I didn't get so irritated was I was able to access a neighbors :) The technicians were clueless. One even changed the wiring of the cable. Didn't do anything, most of them don't even seem qualified. I had 5 techs to come to the house before I said fuck them.

Best thing ever did was getting rid of Comcast. FiOS whoops Comcast's ass.

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The above statements were for informational purposes only and I do not condone unauthorized used of any cable television services

Your cable could just be part of the rent...


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