i've triedUse port forwarding and do torrents through ports they don't block.
Or get a better ISP.
and this is the best isp.
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and this is the best isp.
i've tried
and this is the best isp.
Clearly not, if you can't do torrents!
I don't think any here block the relevant ports, but if they did, that'd be a make-or-break thing for me.
well, it's this or comcast, and i refuse to do any further business with comcast.
Heh, what've they done?
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Is it just me, or do all cable companies suck?
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Yeah, seriously? I'm quite happy with comcast
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I'm walking on sunshine! Woah-oh!
Is it just me, or do all cable companies suck?
They do here, hence I use DSL, with broad ISP choice.
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Comcast got too big, and dropped the customer service part of their business model.
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Comcast has never done anything particularly horrible to me, but their sports channels are terrible/low-budget.
fucked their customers up the ass with no lube.
oh, and manage to come up with the most unreliable cable internet ever. instead of getting MORE reliable over the years (i had cable internet from 98-07), they managed to get LESS reliable.
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They do here, hence I use DSL, with broad ISP choice.
They suck here too. We got cut off for no reason.
exactly
tell me how a big business can NOT offer 24/7 tech support? it's fucking impossible.
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My family has the Comcast Triple Play: Comcast digital cable, Comcast High Speed Internet, and Comcast home phone service. It's all average, but it's a pain in the ass to work through problems with them.
The big ISPs here seem to rely on their good name exposure to hook n00bs who don't know there are much better smaller ISPs out there. So all these people who know nothing about the Internet sign up on plans that are shocking value and think they're getting a bargain since it's bundled with their phone plan and they get a discount on their bill of FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH WOWZ0RZ.
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We don't even have Comcast here. We have Time Warner. 
we have a similar bundle with AT&T. they provide our home phone and dsl company, and we could also bundle our directv, but we like it as is, so there's no point in changing it.
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It's easy to do so, too, since so many people are either lacking in knowledge or don't have the time to look deeper into other options.
we had time warner here for the longest time, but they finally switched to comcast a year or so ago. amazingly, the customer service went from worse to...worser.We don't even have Comcast here. We have Time Warner.
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Was he really listening to Katrina and The Waves? I wouldn't put it past him. Been a while since I've seen the movie. Read the book recently though.
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I will finally be able to see the Big Ten Network come August, after Comcast and them disputed with each other for over a year.
exactly
tell me how a big business can NOT offer 24/7 tech support? it's fucking impossible.
Here, even the little ISPs seem to be able to do tech support from 7am to midnight with short waiting times.
Internode is so the best ISP ever.
i've had it since its inception
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We use Atlantic Broadband, but I hate them with a passion. They shut the internet down whenever they feel like it, and their support is crap.
They wanted us to sign up with their phone service, but fuck them.
They wanted us to sign up with their phone service, but fuck them.
see, even that wouldn't work for me. the only time our internet ever goes down is ~2 am.
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Seriously? I didn't think it could get much worse than Time Warner.
Until we got AT&T...
Cable might've been a pain in the arse but the service from Time Warner was so much more reliable than this. Not to mention they don't even offer us high speed where we live.
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Yes. I LOL'd for all too long at that. Had to take a screencap.
Yeah, and then there are some people who seem to equate being a large ISP with being more reliable and reputable than a smaller one.
In my experience, often the medium sized ISPs are the best. Some small ones are dodgy, so you need to be wary, and ALL big ones are greedy and know nothing of customer service.
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Ha. Ironically, that's always when they turned ours off.
And it's when ours with this service likes to go out.
oh and comcast's tech support. let's see...
"our service is down. the light on the modem is flashing"
"okay, unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
"i've already tried that"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
*wondering how that will fix anything* "fine...okay still the light flashes"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
"how will doing this for the fifth time magically fix it? the signal needs to be resent. works every time"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
i swear the tech support agents acted like it cost them money to send signals to our modem. i know they have scripts to go through, but doing the same thing ten times will always yield identical results.
"our service is down. the light on the modem is flashing"
"okay, unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
"i've already tried that"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
*wondering how that will fix anything* "fine...okay still the light flashes"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
"how will doing this for the fifth time magically fix it? the signal needs to be resent. works every time"
"okay. unplug the modem and reboot your computer"
i swear the tech support agents acted like it cost them money to send signals to our modem. i know they have scripts to go through, but doing the same thing ten times will always yield identical results.
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