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I Hate Comcast With a Fiery Passion

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  tofucake   United States. June 23 2012 23:34. Posts 11478Profile Blog # 
My Comcast DVR went on the fritz. Literally. Sometime during Thursday while I was at work my TV stopped working. After reading online I figured "okay it might work if I leave it unplugged for a couple days. But I wanted to watch TV. So I plugged in one of my computer monitors to my DVR. I turn on the DVR and *bzzt poof* puff of smoke. Monitor is dead. I'm confident the TV suffered the same fate. Different HDMI cables and everything. Monitor isn't even 6 months old.

Now I get to wade through all the bullshit of call customer support -> have tech come out (Monday, 7-9) -> tell me he can't magic my stuff back to life -> call customer support -> get jerked around for a while before I get anywhere.

Odds are they'll give me a new cable box, $20 off my next bill, and tell me to go fuck myself.

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kwark > i will mentor you if you wish, but i'm like the absent drunk father you never wanted
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 nttea   Sweden. June 23 2012 23:55. Posts 4068
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 ghrur   United States. June 24 2012 00:14. Posts 2641
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Remember, they're xfinity now.
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  ecstatica   United States. June 24 2012 00:17. Posts 542Profile Blog # 
Where was you power cord plugged in?
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 Dacendoran   United States. June 24 2012 00:36. Posts 764
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Ask to speak to a supervisor, threaten to change to a different cable company. Call many times angrily that's what I had to do constantly when I had Comcast "It's COMCASTIC! ;D".

I'm guessing your DVR fried your monitor through 110volts straight into your HDMI cable or it shorted through the power cord, which either way is probably comcast's fault. I'm sure you can get more than 10$ off of your next bill.
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  Praetorial   United States. June 24 2012 00:41. Posts 3631Profile Blog # 
Quality 5/5 featured blog.

Also, I hate Comcast too.
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 jpak   United States. June 24 2012 00:44. Posts 3678
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Still waiting for fios to come to my NYC block...
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 TheAmazombie   United States. June 24 2012 00:53. Posts 3643
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Yeah...that sounds about right. I had Comcast when I lived in Cali and goddamn they are a fucking awful company. This is part of the reason that I refuse to pay for cable anymore.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
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  tofucake   United States. June 24 2012 00:54. Posts 11478Profile Blog # 

On June 24 2012 00:36 Dacendoran wrote:
Ask to speak to a supervisor, threaten to change to a different cable company. Call many times angrily that's what I had to do constantly when I had Comcast "It's COMCASTIC! ;D".

I'm guessing your DVR fried your monitor through 110volts straight into your HDMI cable or it shorted through the power cord, which either way is probably comcast's fault. I'm sure you can get more than 10$ off of your next bill.

Unfortunately Comcast has a monopoly around here.



On June 24 2012 00:17 ecstatica wrote:
Where was you power cord plugged in?

surge protector
kwark > i will mentor you if you wish, but i'm like the absent drunk father you never wanted
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 peidongyang   Canada. June 24 2012 00:58. Posts 1368
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Comcast like 80% of telecom companies are pretty much a large glutinous joke.
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  itsjustatank   United States. June 24 2012 01:12. Posts 3121Profile Blog # 
god help me if I ever move to a place where Comcast has a monopoly
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  tofucake   United States. June 24 2012 01:24. Posts 11478Profile Blog # 

On June 24 2012 01:12 itsjustatank wrote:
god help me if I ever move to a place where Comcast has a monopoly

Avoid Philly, Comcast's home town. You can get Verizon FiOS in something like 2% of the city, Verizon DSL in another 10%. Comcast has contracts with almost all of the apartment complexes for exclusivity for internet. Options for TV are typically Comcast or Dish/DirecTV. The burbs are less shitty, but the only high speed internet around here is Comcast.
kwark > i will mentor you if you wish, but i'm like the absent drunk father you never wanted
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 Viperskwa   United States. June 24 2012 01:27. Posts 105
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I have a feeling that since multiple equipment is dying and shorting out that its not comcast's fault here. When ecstatica asked where you plugged in your power cord, I think he was looking more for what kind of grounds do you have in the house?

If you're getting dirty power, not grounded properly, etc, stuff can and will break/fry/surge.

Not here to defend comcast, I just hate to see everyone blame comcast for EVERYTHING that happens.
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  Roffles  *   Tuvalu. June 24 2012 01:43. Posts 14400Profile Blog # 
Comcast net so terror.

Sorry ETT if you read this.
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  Hnnngg   United States. June 24 2012 01:49. Posts 1065Profile # 

On June 24 2012 01:27 Viperskwa wrote:
I have a feeling that since multiple equipment is dying and shorting out that its not comcast's fault here. When ecstatica asked where you plugged in your power cord, I think he was looking more for what kind of grounds do you have in the house?

If you're getting dirty power, not grounded properly, etc, stuff can and will break/fry/surge.

Not here to defend comcast, I just hate to see everyone blame comcast for EVERYTHING that happens.


Shush Brian L. Roberts.
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 Silentness   United States. June 24 2012 01:55. Posts 2396
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lol I use have to Comcast back when I lived with my parents. They still have Comcast. I have Time Warner for internet now (which isn't any better).

LG Dacom is the worst fucking internet I've ever had though. I'm in the Air Force and when I was stationed in Korea they had a monopoly on our Air Base. It felt worse than 56k at certain time periods of the day and on the weekends. Which is hilarious because off base the internet is SUPER FAST of course...

anyways I'm rambling about other ISPs. Comcast still sucks though.
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  fatfail   United States. June 24 2012 02:43. Posts 386Profile Blog # 
I heard google and verizon are the best isps? Is that true?
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  tofucake   United States. June 24 2012 02:58. Posts 11478Profile Blog # 

On June 24 2012 01:27 Viperskwa wrote:
I have a feeling that since multiple equipment is dying and shorting out that its not comcast's fault here. When ecstatica asked where you plugged in your power cord, I think he was looking more for what kind of grounds do you have in the house?

If you're getting dirty power, not grounded properly, etc, stuff can and will break/fry/surge.

Not here to defend comcast, I just hate to see everyone blame comcast for EVERYTHING that happens.

The two things are plugged into separate surge protectors on separate circuits. I was using the monitor for my computer about a minute before it died and it was entirely fine, as is everything else plugged into the same protector (2 other monitors, switch, PC, and a clock). The only thing the two have in common is the DVR.
kwark > i will mentor you if you wish, but i'm like the absent drunk father you never wanted
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 Malarkey817   United States. June 24 2012 03:16. Posts 161
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Who doesn't hate Comcast?

I had a nice twitter chat with @ComcastBill when they accidentally shut off my internet for a week straight.
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 UndoneJin   United States. June 24 2012 03:20. Posts 431
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On June 24 2012 01:24 tofucake wrote:

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Avoid Philly, Comcast's home town. You can get Verizon FiOS in something like 2% of the city, Verizon DSL in another 10%. Comcast has contracts with almost all of the apartment complexes for exclusivity for internet. Options for TV are typically Comcast or Dish/DirecTV. The burbs are less shitty, but the only high speed internet around here is Comcast.


This is the best advice in this thread.
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