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Here's The One Sentence That Has Every Comcast And Time Warner Cable Employee Terrified
Business Insider ^ | FEbruary 14, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 02/13/2014 2:48:31 PM PST by lbryce

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To: lbryce

Some how the Dems/Unions/Libs will blame it on Rush Limbaugh.


41 posted on 02/13/2014 3:40:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: suijuris
I would ditch TV altogether but I have a spouse who just can’t survive without Dancing With The Stars...

That show is free over the air.
42 posted on 02/13/2014 3:47:35 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: lbryce

My comcast internet dominates. Im on their blast program and I get 53Mbps down and 12 up. That is insanely fast, damn near business class. My WAN Address hasnt changed in two years either, despite it technically being on DHCP.

As far as the caps go, there is a 300 gig cap but it is not enforced in Texas. With netflix running daily, we use about 200gigs a month.

BTW, comcast routers are total garbage. Same with their modems. Purchase your own and save money. Most of the shows I watch come on Fox so I record them through my tuner in Mediacenter and dump them on the server for later watching. Windows media streaming also works over the net so I can watch everything on my server from any windows computer.

A little tip for comcast users having outages. Record them and call customer service every time it goes out. While we havent had many outages, I have a year free of premium channels due to outages. Some routers can even track and record WAN outages.


43 posted on 02/13/2014 3:48:36 PM PST by drunknsage
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To: Brown Deer
Thanks, I plant to start with Roku, Hulu plus and an HD local antenna this weekend.
44 posted on 02/13/2014 3:52:20 PM PST by suijuris
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To: SomeCallMeTim

One of my sisters has cable TV and Internet with Time Warner Cable.

Almost four years ago I set up the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird client Email app on her PC (TBird, so she could do her Email in and out of Tbird via POP or IMAP instead of and without ever going to the Email web pages).

Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas Tbird quit working, though not a single change had recently happened with or on her PC.

After some investigation, I learned (found some complaint blogs that referenced the situation) that TWC had been migrating a lot of their Email servers, and totally ignoring any customers who were using Email POP/IMAP client apps like Tbird, they notified no one that some server nameas and addresses had changed, which meant some customers “account settings” in their desk top Email program no longer had all the right information.

It turned out that the total migration of the Email servers had started before it affected my sister’s Email and continued after that, with no warnings or notification to any customers like her.

After the 1st of the year I finally got a human being at TWC to discuss the issue, and I got some information from that person (what they said was the right settings). They were different than the settings we had used on my sisters PC (which we got back them from TWC) that had been working since we installed Tbird and up till B4 Thanksgiving 2013.

But, not only was there not any admission that anything had changed, she INSISTED that nothing had changed, that the settings she gave me had always been those she was giving me. Of course if that had been true then those would have always been the settings we had for their Email service on my sisters PC - which is not true, and there never would have been any cause for us to contact them about any problem. Her answer which she kept repeating was that she “did not know where you got your information from”.

I have Verizon - TV/Phone/Internet, but I am no giant Verizon fan, but I have never got any really bad support from them. It has always been competent and honest whenever I needed it.


45 posted on 02/13/2014 3:52:35 PM PST by Wuli
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To: sakic
All industries have been doing this for about 30 years. Odd how large corporations are the ones killing off capitalism.

Once you're established and big enough, you have incentive to disincentivize entry into your field — this is often accomplished via regulatory/licensing schemes.
(This is the essence of crony capitalism.)

46 posted on 02/13/2014 3:53:49 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Mopp4

Cool! We just bought a Roku 3. Mr S LOVES,LOVES,LOVES it!


47 posted on 02/13/2014 3:59:04 PM PST by sneakers ( Quinn: "Liberty is the solution to the human condition.")
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To: SomeCallMeTim

We had Time Warner years and years ago before Comcast bought them out in our area. They were fine in our area. Then when Comcast came in we went to Direct TV. Direct TV keeps adding costs a little at a time and it’s just gotten too expensive for the few channels that we do watch so we got rid of them and got an antenna. Now have 67 FREE channels, 57 in Spanish, one in Chinese, one in Japanese, 4 in English and the rest are religious. Until we can get a Roku set up going I put a note on my wall which says “Just think about all the money you are saving!”.


48 posted on 02/13/2014 4:08:40 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: lbryce
"Operating efficiencies" usually means the closing and combining offices,

Where I live here in Michigan, there is only ONE Comcast office within at least a 20 mile radius........

49 posted on 02/13/2014 4:11:39 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I think I've lost my mojo.....)
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To: lbryce

All they’re doing is bringing their monopoly out in the open. Where are the politicians? Where are the states attorneys general? Bottom line is if you want cable, and that usually means internet, too, there’s only one place to buy it.


50 posted on 02/13/2014 4:16:06 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: DoodleDawg

This will now help get a lot of people out of “job lock”.


51 posted on 02/13/2014 4:18:48 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Chickensoup

Yep. My service went out 2 weeks ago and a truck was in the neighborhood within the hour.

Live Customer service was on the phone in 2 minutes.


52 posted on 02/13/2014 4:18:58 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: SomeCallMeTim
We have Time Warner Cable here... They are SO PITIFUL
I've had TW cable & internet for 12-15 years (Rochester, NY) and I have zero complaints.
I think their pricing sucks, but I've never had a problem with phone calls, service calls, problem resolution, downtime, etc.
53 posted on 02/13/2014 4:21:51 PM PST by oh8eleven (claimer)
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To: lbryce

We love Roku and are thrilled to have cut loose of the Cable Mafia.


54 posted on 02/13/2014 4:59:58 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Pit1

I have had both dishnetwork and directTV in the past and both have had issues during weather events or thereafter. At this point I only use the cable for broadband so I pay for only that ala carte. Still too expensive at ~$60/month but no other choice than TW in my area for the bandwidth...so not looking forward to the price hike. Seriously considering running a T line of my own into the neighborhood and charging for access.


55 posted on 02/13/2014 5:28:15 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What sort of bandwidth speed do you need to have to use ROKU service?? Is 12 mbps enough??


56 posted on 02/13/2014 5:41:35 PM PST by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: CedarDave

Is 12 mbps enough?? definately.

BTW Chromcast is a less expensive alternative to Roku.
Google just released a developer kit so more apps will be coming.


57 posted on 02/13/2014 6:04:54 PM PST by fred42 ("Get your facts first, then you can distort 'em as much as you need." - Mark Twain)
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To: fred42

I’m not sure I want Google tracking my TV surfing, even if it is cheaper.
(Yeah, I recognize they all do it, but I don’t use Google for searching unless I can’t get what I need with another search engine.)


58 posted on 02/13/2014 6:41:07 PM PST by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: fred42
Is 12 mbps enough?? definately.

Thanks, BTW.

59 posted on 02/13/2014 6:41:56 PM PST by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: CedarDave
What sort of bandwidth speed do you need to have to use ROKU service?? Is 12 mbps enough??

12 mbps?? Dude, I have 6 mbps and that gives me more than enough speed. It's much better if you hard-wire Roku. I'm not a fan of Wi-Fi, and besides I live in an efficiency apt.

60 posted on 02/13/2014 6:42:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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