Comcast is no where trouble free where I am either, most of the folks that
have it for internet connections do so cause no other DSL service is
available.
SBC/AT&T hell, phone usually stays up even when the trees take the power
lines down.
Now I technically DON'T have SBC/AT&T I have Cruzio, who has to purchase
from SBC, so I get the same speed as they offer, but since I am using a
local company instead of a multinational conglomerate, I get service along
with my $32 dollars a moth for 3.0 DSL. I can pick up the phone from 9A to 5
P 5 days a weeks and from 9-2P on Saturday and speak with friendly live
people that want my problems to go away so I don't have to call again,
verses those idjits who know if they screw me up, no one will know who did
it.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Allen Coltrin
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:45 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: NNNooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Hi Bill,
Don't rain on my parade, yet. Here the cable company, Comcast, couldn't find
their ass with their collective fingers. We were down more than up and we
eventually kicked them to the curb and signed with Dish Network. But I'm
getting a free-to-air receiver and get what I want without the monthly fee.
If I'm WAY happy you'll know. And if I'm WAY sad you will REALLY know. Best
of luck to me.
Allen
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] NNNooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:33:51 -0600
I just finished talking to sbcglobal.net (yahoo) and they are removing the
> port 25 on my account that deals with spam in or out. It may not take
> until
> tomorrow afternoon. So we shall see if it gets cold in hell!
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
The experience that Moose and I both had predicts snowballs in hell. We both
were unable to get the list in any manner that didn't involve some email
service. SBC was as interested in solving our problems as they were in time
travel or flying on a carpet.
I don't know about moose, but I dropped all from them, including phone, and
switched to our local cable people, Cox. SBC was unreliable, despite the
fact we are less than a quarter mile from the main exchange for nearly half
the town, and not more than a block from their fiber. When the DSL was down,
which was at least weekly, it took literally hours on the phone to someone
in India that had only a slight grasp of english. I've spoken to other phone
banks in India, and this was, by a mile, the worst.
If you can scream and yell enough, and it takes more than an hour, you can
be transfered to someone in the US, and things are fixed, at least for a
week.
With my Cox bundle, we get MUCH faster internet, rock-solid phone service,
and good enough cable (they can't do anything about lousy programs), and I
save a good $20 a month. When I do have a problem, which is about once a
year, I talk to someone about four miles from my home, and they answer in
two or three rings.
I wish you the best of luck, but if I never hear the words SBC/ATT again, it
will be far, far too soon.
Bill Pearce
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