[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;43892847]I also live outside Austin and have had to deal with their shit since the late 90s. Every year they jack their rates up at least $5 (with this last year being an exceptionally steep $20) and do absolutely nothing to improve the speed or quality of their service. They also had the audacity to recently start charging rental fees for cable modems (which is like an additional $6 a month.)
They send out letters every year when they have their rate hikes with a long winded and fake apology "we're sorry your rates are going up because ESPN and other content providers wants to charge us more for programming" Uh when the flying fuck does ESPN have anything to do with internet service? Rate hike the people that buy cable TV service, not everyone uniformly just to be scumbags.
I pay [B]$75/mo[/B] for 15/2. It literally can't get any worse than what it is. I honestly don't care if TWC gets bought by whoever, they're dickbags that need to roll over and die already.
I had that problem where they'd keep sending me new modems that would have the transceiver blow out after about a week of use. It only took them 6 different technicians over the course of two weeks and a box full of dead modems [B]to figure out that one of the four multiplexed signals on their cable line was blasting my modem with 100 times the signal strength it was otherwise supposed to get.[/B]
Then it took them an additional week with bucket trucks all over the neighborhood to finally fix the problem.[/QUOTE]
thats exactly my problem, the internet goes WAY over the speed limit, but then will randomly drop constantly. like we are supposed to get 2GM download, but it flies over to 10, then back down to 50KB. its extremely annoying online gaming wise because you will go from 20 ping to 500 randomly. But AT&T keep saying its with the wiring in the house since their super special tool says the outside line is fine.
i have TWC, i'm literally a room away from my modem and my speeds still suck which prompts me to believe throttling
my speeds are going to cry even more
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;43892859]TWC can get fucked because I tried to get a job with them before Comcast, and they turned me down, I consider this Karma. As much as I respect your opinion, I'll stick with mine due to my history with both companies.[/QUOTE]
That is the STUPIDEST reason ever. All this merger is going to do is reduce competition and screw over every customer in the affected areas. I don't give a fuck if TWC said fuck off and did not give you a job. That is the WORST excuse ever.
"Can't just stop spending money... unless it's on me." -My dad just now
Thanks for laying us off of a $65K/yr paycheck with family medical and free cable service, ya bastards.
[QUOTE=meppers;43891424]come to att u-verse
besides the 250GB monthly cap it's very stable internet
well, they advertise that there is a cap but i'm pretty sure i've gone over it and they didn't say anything[/QUOTE]
I switched from Time Warner to AT&T about half a year ago to save some money. The speeds aren't really that bad, but the customer service is atrocious. It can take weeks to get service if your internet goes out. But, at least it's free.
TWC has been my provider for over ten years now and the only real complaint I can say I had is when the router died and kept dropping random connection but it was 10 years old, they came out and replaced it with a brand new one with up to date security that pulls 30 speed. That was 2 years ago, internet has not randomly gone out once since then. They've fixed every issue I ever had and even explained that after the first five years of service the price would increase. Not the best provider but very, very far from the worst, or even top 5 bad for that matter.
TWC is my only option if I want something more than DSL.
I fucking hate this oligopoly.
[QUOTE=meppers;43891424]come to att u-verse
besides the 250GB monthly cap it's very stable internet
well, they advertise that there is a cap but i'm pretty sure i've gone over it and they didn't say anything[/QUOTE]
AT&T is absolute ass, no one in their right mind should give them business.
As has been said before, their support is really shitty and you're better off figuring everything out on your own, then calling and immediately escalating to level 3 service or whatever.
Also, don't forget, it's like a monopoly, but legal.
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[QUOTE=BANNED USER;43892088]This helps my job working at Comcast so I for one actually welcome the buyout. Besides, TWC are bigger assholes than Comcast are, especially to their own employees. Comcast is actually really legit and a great place to work and the products are great, when they work right.[/QUOTE]
Banned User confirmed for Comcast spy.
I have comcast at home and it is the shittiest isp and it is the only isp I can i have (apparently). The internet connection I have is very unstable and I've called them multiple times to fix it. They even sent technicians to my house, but could never find the issue. They constantly raise the prices nearly every month and their support is absolute shit.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;43892127]Google can you get Fiber to the entire US like right now please?[/QUOTE]
Meanwhile, Comcast is fighting as hard as it can against Google because Google might control "as much as 2% of the market."
[url]http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/13/5408084/comcasts-best-argument-against-fcc-action-is-google-fiber[/url]
It's unrealistic to think that the problems people experience with Time Warner or Comcast will get better because of this. The same staff and infrastructure that Time Warner has will just get a new label on it that says Comcast. I bet each company's internal policies of how they deal with customers are roughly the same anyway and we all know that the call centers you reach on either side are a major clusterfuck too. It's shitty business practice and the only thing that could happen from this is slimming down the already horrible choices you have for internet. It's bad news and it's just bringing things even closer to the monopoly.
You will be assimilated into the Borg collective that is Comcast. Resistance is futile.
This is actually probably a good thing, people forget that Time Warner are big traffic shapers; and even actively run cache servers to SLOW DOWN things like youtube and Netflix instead of speed them up like a proper cache should.
Comcast is a terrible company, but at least they aren't doing quite as much shit against net neutrality.
If you're tired of big ISPs switch to local providers, it'll be slower and more expensive but sending Comcast / Verizon the message is worth it. Local ISPs exist, DSLReports and bunch of other websites can help you find them.
Comcast's policies are also highly regional; where I live they have bandwidth metered, but they don't actually CAP (yet) or charge if you go over. They also stopped doing BitTorrent bandwidth shaping and have been doing OK things. I'm not being really nice on Comcast or anything, since It's still terrible compared to UTOPIA / Municipal fiber networks, but it's NOT worse than TWC.
It doesn't really matter which ISP has better policies, less competition is always bad and this is going to reduce the already limited competition in some areas to none at all.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;43898196]This is actually probably a good thing, people forget that Time Warner are big traffic shapers; and even actively run cache servers to SLOW DOWN things like youtube and Netflix instead of speed them up like a proper cache should.
Comcast is a terrible company, but at least they aren't doing quite as much shit against net neutrality.
If you're tired of big ISPs switch to local providers, it'll be slower and more expensive but sending Comcast / Verizon the message is worth it. Local ISPs exist, DSLReports and bunch of other websites can help you find them.
Comcast's policies are also highly regional; where I live they have bandwidth metered, but they don't actually CAP (yet) or charge if you go over. They also stopped doing BitTorrent bandwidth shaping and have been doing OK things. I'm not being really nice on Comcast or anything, since It's still terrible compared to UTOPIA / Municipal fiber networks, but it's NOT worse than TWC.[/QUOTE]
I WAS on a local provider, until they got bought out by TWC. It's just going to happen eventually to all of them.
[QUOTE=Morgen;43899211]It doesn't really matter which ISP has better policies, less competition is always bad and this is going to reduce the already limited competition in some areas to none at all.[/QUOTE]
The ISPs never competed in the US, they are almost all the same now.
I heard the news that time warner cable got bought out! sweet, let's load in the 30 bucks a month for 512 K/S internet connection, and the price rises each month by 15, so we can bankrupt people. Also Data caps of 5 GB and charge people about 30 for each gig overused!
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