Comcast Cable

[wdlove]

Another happy comcast customer here, they even sent me a $40 dollar gift certificate for amazon.com for being their customer....which i used to buy RTCW and a Rammstein DVD

That sounds great, what was the situation that they sent you the $40 gift certificate?

The $29.95 for the first months sounds pretty good.

Going by the comments of OutThere761, I'm leaning toward having a Mac specialist do the install. Several things have been very frustrating. Just this week I spent over 3 hours on the phone with Microsoft, due to a wireless issue and office.

 

[Macpoops]

Going through any other company for DSL you have to get them to then call the local phone company. Then the local phone company works on the actual line. Thats what takes forever. It may be cheaper buy your service gets delayed because of this. Sure you may be paying Earthlink but the inturn have to pay Verizon(or whoever). Your better off paying your phone company for it rather then Earthlink or whoever

 

[Westside guy]

Going through any other company for DSL you have to get them to then call the local phone company. Then the local phone company works on the actual line. Thats what takes forever. It may be cheaper buy your service gets delayed because of this. Sure you may be paying Earthlink but the inturn have to pay Verizon(or whoever). Your better off paying your phone company for it rather then Earthlink or whoever

It certainly is cheaper, but it's not always the right choice. If all you do is Web browsing and e-mail then most certainly it doesn't matter. But with other applications it might get more complicated.

I don't know if Qwest still does this, but at least up until recently they would rotate the DHCP addresses of customer DSL lines (up here in Washington state anyway) every 15 minutes or so. The reason was they didn't want you to try to run any sort of server on your low-cost DSL line. That's perfectly understandable; but it also means you can't run an SSH session that lasts longer than the DHCP lease time. I work from home one day a week, and I have SSH logins open to several of our department servers all day - not to mention when I have to connect in the evenings to deal with problems. This DHCP rotation policy means I basically can't even consider Qwest DSL as an option.

(Note that I'm a Comcast cable user so I fortunately have a workable alternative)

 

[wdlove]

I just visited Best Buy yesterday. They have a special this week regarding Comcast Cable. You can purchase the cable router at the store fro $79.95 plus tax. Then you get a $20 mail in rebate, once you have your service then will get a $60 rebate. So the mode is free except for tax. There is still the $29.95 for the first three months. After that it's $42.95/month, because of no rental fee for the modem. Best buy also give the purchaser a $25 gift card to there store. I'm wondering what Best Buy gets for this promotion. In addition Comcast will give a three month subscription to Rhapsody free, but it doesn't work on the Mac.

 

[applemacdude]

That sounds great, what was the situation that they sent you the $40 gift certificate?


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Just out of kindness i guess