BEST cable / interent / phone BUNDLE PROViDER?

[atoz350 10+ year member]

the hell with comcast!!!!had them for almost 2 years this last time and had them for a few years before that. they keep raising their prices......and to me their service wasnt that good. probably just me but my internet service was horrible. intermittant connection. would go out for a few hours almost everyday. on top of that i had vonage........well if the internet is out then the phone dont work!!!!
i switched to ATT a few weeks ago, and the service has been good. prices are going to be comparable. it might just be me but the channels on dish network seem to be clearer than from my comcast cable

Sounds like there was a lot of noise in your system. This has to do with tech management and lazy techs in your area for not fixing it. The company as a whole is good though.

Verizon is going to go through the same thing as soon as their system gets old like Comcast. The problem is, they spent all of their money up building this new plant, hiring Comcasts lazy techs, and paying off the government for their mistakes in laying the Fiber.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I have Time Warner cable and for the most part is straight on. I have had problems, but they were always worked out in a timely manner and their techs coming out to fix the problems were always cool. Now their billing department and phone techs can **** both my nutz! Cept, Jeff, he helped me out as I think it was his last day there, lawlers! Anyway, I have pretty much everything from digital cable, all the HD tiers, all movie channels, 3 boxes, 2 DVR's, cable phone and internet and runs me 150 a month. Is a little much, as I will eventually cut back.

Is better than the satty's and anything else in my area. I would say go with them, but not in your area. I do believe someone said comcast and TWC are the same, I don't know as I don't get into it that much, but friends have sattys and goes out all the time on them, both from dish and the other main one, not coming to me right now. Heard good things about At&t till I went to my grandfathers house to hook it up for him. Nothing but problems and he went with TWC.

I say hit up RCN for 102 a month. Sounds good to me.

 

[Doingstuffwell 10+ year member]

Atoz... them are some great ideas ya got there...

Oh... and I think I might know a little bit about the business plan seeing ive been a fios CX and employee on a FSC management team in Tampa for about 5 years running...

in home we push Moca (multimedia over coax) at 108MBS for all coax wiring.... because cable tv has to come from well.. CABLE tv.. when it gets to a set top..

the internet is done via a gigabit port on the routers uplink and a gigabit ethernet port on the ONT (optical network terminal).. which converts 3 freqs of laser light ( upstream 1490, downstream data 1600 and downstream video 1550) from a single fiber into your 3 services.

using Juniper routers (google it) on the backbone, the smallest connection any one user shares is a Gig-E between 8 customers... (Gigabit ethernet backbone / 8 = 125MB backend)...

this all joins up into the combination of over 32 companys (PRE verizon telecom) and their networks that span the globe including VODAphone in europe and the north africas..

phone is tied off on T-1's sharing 20 phones per Line with extra headroom... and video is all running on individual multiplexers per Video Serving Office... which averages one per county. they work in local channels, weather, etc.

so.. no... it really isn't a 30 year old technology... you really do get a larger backend, front end, and transport than almost any other carrier... and last time i checked... our stocks are up to $38 a share... almost 2 times what it was when i first started working with verizon.

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

Atoz... them are some great ideas ya got there...
Oh... and I think I might know a little bit about the business plan seeing ive been a fios CX and employee on a FSC management team in Tampa for about 5 years running...

in home we push Moca (multimedia over coax) at 108MBS for all coax wiring.... because cable tv has to come from well.. CABLE tv.. when it gets to a set top..

the internet is done via a gigabit port on the routers uplink and a gigabit ethernet port on the ONT (optical network terminal).. which converts 3 freqs of laser light ( upstream 1490, downstream data 1600 and downstream video 1550) from a single fiber into your 3 services.

using Juniper routers (google it) on the backbone, the smallest connection any one user shares is a Gig-E between 8 customers... (Gigabit ethernet backbone / 8 = 125MB backend)...

this all joins up into the combination of over 32 companys (PRE verizon telecom) and their networks that span the globe including VODAphone in europe and the north africas..

phone is tied off on T-1's sharing 20 phones per Line with extra headroom... and video is all running on individual multiplexers per Video Serving Office... which averages one per county. they work in local channels, weather, etc.

so.. no... it really isn't a 30 year old technology... you really do get a larger backend, front end, and transport than almost any other carrier... and last time i checked... our stocks are up to $38 a share... almost 2 times what it was when i first started working with verizon.

Good for you . However, talking to me like I am new to this and asking me to google terms doesn't do anything to make you sound smarter as I am a Communications Engineer and actually partly designed YOUR infrastructure that is over 30 years old. Verizon's whote structure is a direct rip-off of AT&T's test structure built in Kentucky in 1982. Yes digital multicasting has changed in the last 30 years, but its still the same structure. Fiber to the home is nothing new at all.

And Verizon's stocks were at $52/share this time last year.

 

[15nissen 10+ year member]

comcast is out of the question.

Its down to AT&T (dish network) or RCN (Digital Cable)//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif:veryhapp:

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

comcast is out of the question.

Its down to AT&T (dish network) or RCN (Digital Cable)//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif:veryhapp:

If that's the case go with AT&T. You'll hate RCN.

 

[mk_ 10+ year member]

Go for the FiOS

 

[mk_ 10+ year member]

Forgive me if FiOS has nothing to do with this thread, I just really wanted to post my speeds somewhere //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Good luck on your decision.

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

What's your point? J/K

 

[15nissen 10+ year member]

Go for the FiOS

Forgive me if FiOS has nothing to do with this thread, I just really wanted to post my speeds somewhere //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
Good luck on your decision.

What's your point? J/K

This is a family thing, with phone etc......Why should i stray from RCN? I cannot find much about them other then they are newer in the area.

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

This is a family thing, with phone etc......Why should i stray from RCN? I cannot find much about them other then they are newer in the area.

Absolutely horrible customer service. If there is a problem, sometimes it takes up to 3 weeks before a tech will come out.

 

[mk_ 10+ year member]

What's your point? J/K

My point is that my ping is better than yours! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif jk

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

My point is that my ping is better than yours! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif jk

Maybe I should've chosen a closer server...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

I pay $60 per month for phone and 1.5MB/s internet. TV = Free Suddenlink cable. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Doingstuffwell 10+ year member]

wireless while running Utorrent at around 500kb down.. piratebay FTW