Anyone have this at home? I'm looking for an alternative to Comcast for internet. The service is horrible in my immediate area and the speeds aren't that great. According to the folks at Sprint. I can use their wireless router combines with their wireless modem without any worries of service. It will cost me 59.99/month, which is just a few bucks more then Comcast. Any feedback/input/alternate suggestions on service? besides internet surfing we need enough bandwidth for gaming:yumyum:
I work for Comcast, anything I can do to help? If you want you can PM me the phone number the account is under and I can take a look.
Some of that wireless stuff has pretty poor ping speeds. My mom's using wireless at her house, and its decent. Kinda spendy tho.
You wont be gaming much on the Sprint Wireless plan. And I agree with you on the Comcast thing, I'd switch if Comcast didn't have the monopoly on "fast" internet in the area. Qwest sucks, Charter sucks, there really aren't any choices till Verizon gets FIOS up here. But you can expect that on the 12th of Never. I'm going to guess that it has something to do with customer service incompetence and the enormous bill?
Anything I can do to help you as well? I understand Comcast has a bad reputation for customer service, but we are trying lol.
You can start by setting me up with Comcast 16/4 and Basic cable (I already have the 16/4). Then, you'll give me the discount for the Internet service for having basic cable. Once you do that, then send me my Cable TV and Internet bills on separate pieces of paper.
my friend uses the spring wireless because he has a dish and no phone line. it does the trick around the house and is awesome for road trips.
I ditched Comcast because while the speed of the internet service was nice, between internet and TV I was being charged twice what I was for the same services when it was Time Warner. And the signal quality of the TV was awful. I'd switch back to the Internet in a heartbeat if it wasn't so freakin' expensive, but there's no way I'm giving up my DirecTV picture and channnel selection.
comcast? bleh whats that? i have mediacom ROFL actually im just kidding i know what comcast is....i hear they rip you off pretty damn bad...least that's what ive heard from over 80% of the people that have a line with them
Hrm, I <3 my comcast service. While expensive, I get great speeds and rarely have downtime. I don't live in the suburbs, though .
I have a Sprint Wireless broadband account I get less than half the performance I get at home with Comcast. We have a Dlink wireless router that allows us to share the connection. When we are on the road we need it for the business. Just remember you only get 5Gb downloads/month, read the fine print. After you reach the magic 5Gb they clip your wings and slow you to a crawl. That said we are about to switch to Direct TV, but keeping our Internet. Mike
A little birdie told me once that if you have High-Speed Internet through Comcast, you also receive the basic cable signal as well, regardless if you subscribe/pay for the channels or not. I can't say from personal experience, since I have DirecTV + Qwest DSL, and I've never witnessed this working firsthand, so I've taken that rumor with a grain of salt. In vague theory, I can see how it could make sense, you have the coax running to your house and whatnot, but without knowing their infrastructure and how it works you just can't assume it would. Comcast would never voluntarily disclose that info for obvious reasons and most likely would keep it hush-hush if true. I'm sure someone out there has tried it. As for using a wireless cellphone carrier as your main Internet source, I really wouldn't recommend it. I've worked for a few carriers selling wireless and have used wireless cards for both CDMA and GSM 3g networks. They're no where near the speed as the other options like Cable or DSL. The ping times are huge on these setups. Even though the throughput may be decent, the pingtime kills you. You can pretty much forget about online gaming with it. I've never attempted it, but I predict online gaming pretty much useless/impossible through it. Upload speeds, not just download, are surprisingly important for online gaming and these setups are disadvantaged in that department as well vs. an ISP. So there's another hit you'd take. I also can also make these judgements from the everyday use of my iPhone. I have a speed test application installed on it that I run all the time throughout the day. I test to see what to use for web browsing, generally I'm comparing between ATT's 3g network (exactly what you'd get at home with ATT and comparable to other Wireless providers) and any available wifi networks I'm around. I can positively say that 95% of the time the 3g network has a pingtime of >500ms and sometimes substantially more depending on the load on their network at the time. Whereas your regular ISP will have substantially and consistently lower latency. You may see a faster throughout/'speed' with the 3g over ISP, but this only shows the theoretical speed of the network path through which you're using to connect to the other computer. It doesn't tell how fast you'll actually surf, play games, etc since you have to measure the time it takes to send a signal to another computer and the time it takes for a response to reach back to your computer, exactly what latency/ping is. ~Bryan
no problem with comcast here, i pay my bill, get good connection & speed. I use my phone as modem for my notebook when not home and the speed isn't that great.
