Comments on: Comcast PowerBoost Is PR BS http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/ On Databases, Recovery, Tech Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: admin http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-7150 admin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:49:11 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-7150 @dustin Wow, i have no idea how you managed to go from talking about Comcast to this political bashing. I don't agree with most of what you said, but it sure was entertaining to read. @dustin

Wow, i have no idea how you managed to go from talking about Comcast to this political bashing. I don’t agree with most of what you said, but it sure was entertaining to read.

]]> By: dustin http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-7149 dustin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:25:43 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-7149 I WORK for comcast in Ms and from EXPERIENCE i can tell you realistically that YES it IS faster than most if not all dsl speeds. in order to HOPE to get 6.0 dsl Extreme as they advertise, You would have to live LITERALLY next door to the broadcast tower. Now POWERBOOST is a f"#$kin JOKE. I CUSTOM BUILD my pcs. I try many of them *(swapping them out once per month to give each pc a real chance.room for fluctuation). I have had comcast's 8 mg internet at two locations. One was a house and the other now where i live is in an apartment. the house had MUCH faster downloads, webpages load the same at both places. part of the reason..the tech refused to CORRECT my too high upstream power signal and too low of downstream weak signal. but when I was living at the house last year...I would log and test download speeds from 20 different sites for weeks straight. NO MATTER WHAT time of the day or night. example. downloading itunes from Apple.com when you click " ipod+itunes" tablink at top middle of page and then "download itunes" at far right of screen, at the house I would start with 3.2 mbps, then it would drop to 2 mpbs, then would jump to a measley 2.3 mbps and stay pretty much there throughout the rest of the download. THIS IS AT 3:30 a.m central time. one of the best times to download something you would think. Lest people accessing the site than during day right? Main idea. That powerboost that comcast claims is such a big deal amounts to bearly adding a measly .2 to .6 mbps to downloads REALISTICALLY between 1.5 and 4 at best for an up to 8 mg speed package. Anyone who's ever downloaded from Microsoft.com, different internet sites, and compared to Apple's download I mentioned earlier will OBVIOUSLY see that you Apple does theyre home work...AND/OR their products work great so they dont have alot of people needing to access the site or redownload the products...so i think SO FAR the apple site is a decent REALISTIC test for what REAL download speeds you can expect to get with whatever package ( 1mg economy, 6 mg high performance, or 8mg high performance internet), you choose from comcast. and YEAH..i agree the advertisement IS SHADDY...the 99.99 deal that you see Shaquil o neal and Ben Stine on..is NOT 99.99... It's actually 103.00 plus your sales taxes because of the emta ( phone modem) that is required. my trainers and manager tell me comcast is now offering to SELL these emta's to customer on a wide area basis but i haven't see any area's that sell them yet. I research this stuff EVERY day. so to me..YES..that partial false advertisement. the ad should show 103.00 plus your taxes. now..if comcast woud just ADVERTISE on A HUMBLE AND HONEST level..then that would be great..because even IF they cleaned up their act on everything, customer service ( this means kicking all out all the female black women that sit their filling their nails..and responding to legitimate customer complaints with " uuuuuuuhuuuuuuuu m" shaking their heads side to side like they have some kinda brain disease, and get more variety of races of works in there, get ALL their freaking techs to ACTUALLY walk up to a home when schedule to.and actually knock on the door and ACTUALLY WAIT a measely 2 to 3 minutes to give the elderly customers a chance to answer so that the few compitent workers at the call centers wouldn't have to apology to the customer for a tech that acted like he was going to do the job, then showed us he couldn't care less, then we have the outside moron contracters...Poole Cable, who employ guys that think it's ok and professional looking enough to PHYSICALLY run a cable line THROUGH the shingles of your outside backyard of the home straight through the wall. when he's ALREADY made the appropriate hole near the box junction on the side of the house. Yes the speeds overall MAY be better than dsl , AND I USED to be a Bellsouth cutomer before at&t took them over, the ONLY time it went down ( once we finally got a compitent tech out that could finally figure out why our signal would drop) was when Hurricane Katrina hit.......but I tell ya...as long as the company keeps employing one particular skin color full of snobish, stuckup, big mouth, trash tv jerry springer women at these call centers...you'lll ALWAYS get the same reliable bs service you have come to expect from CONcast. Unless you're lucky enough to get the few compitent THOROUGH white people that still work there because they have the patience of a GOD. People, customers all over, Please understand no company is perfect. Every company has it's cons and pros, but when you ACTUALLY work for them, then you will see what I see goes on EVERY DAY. customer's NOT being told about all payment options and processing speeds..then customer's get ticked off when a LOCAL comcast clerk tells them, b/c the line is a mile long and the comcast office is closing in a minute, to go to any other payment center ( not specifying that it needs to be a COMCAST office for the payment to show up today if using any other method other than check),.." aaa yeeaah.just go to any other pymt center baby." they go to tobacco mart, or Pete's Star Service, or Mississippi Discount Drugs, etc etc..make a CASH payment..and the clerk there tells them the payment will post today. EEEEEK..wrong. every center is different. Some air mail it, some dont, 99 percent of the time..they either send US ..comcast a check or money order..that often takes between 2 to 6 business days for it to arrive in OUR hands..let along if it's a check..that's an extra 1 to 2 business days to process. at this point the customer is very irrate because she was told WRONG and NOT THOROUGHLY enough in the end or should i say..beginning , by WHO....another black female clerk that does not believe in being THOROUGH when she tell a customer something that way IF SHE WOULD have been thorough and explained about third party payment centers and why it wouldn't show up on her comcast account yet..then yeah..the customer would have still been annoyed but at least..that would have covered the black female work's butt and the customer would have calmed down eventually and still maybe would have had the option of paying OVER THE PHONE..with either a live comcast call center rep for 4.00 fee ( in our area MS) or free of charge on the IVR or automated phone pay service. also. the company puts a 5:00 average call time restriction on US the call center reps and when you think about it. THERE IS NO WAY to 100 PERCENT and THOROUGHLY serve our customer's giving them ALL the information they need BEFORE hand to prevent these such headaches and more AS THEY COULD AND SHOULD be prevented..with such a ridiculously short call time restriction. we have THREE big products to explain and deal with..not to mention when box drivers go down, outages in areas happen, new customers..explaining billing cycles, payment methods, services inclusions, hours of comcast office operations, etc...it's too much info to explain in 5 min or less..and people WONDER why many agents sound like fast talking robots..THE COMPANY requires that we be this way...and what happens..when you have a guy like me..who in the immortal words of George Carlin >..." thinks logically" and chooses to be a HUMAN..meaning..and i quote " i dont believe in RUSHING my customers off the phone..and im NOT going to assume that it's THEIR responsiblity to THINK or remember to THINK to ask about all our payment options and processing speeds. THAT'S MY JOB to remember this stuff and OFFER it to them..they shouldn't HAve to remember to ask...and then end up in the before mention situation to where they're services would be cut off if they decided to go on vacation for 2.8 weeks YES...rare situation but i am HUMBLE and sometimes..customer will take a vacation for almost 3 weeks. and come back JUST before our collection calendars schedule the tech to come out and physically cut them off at the pole or green box on the ground. the BEST thing any comcast customer can do is get a TON of signatures and send them to your nearest corporate manager saying " we got the inside info and we know how your treating your employees with these ridiculously short call time maximums. If you are THAT INTEREST in RUSHING your customer's off the phone.then perhaps we need to go to Direct TV and Dish, they seem to be granted the time they need to be thorough with us THE CUSTOMER..THE BOSS...Customer is TOP priorit RIGHT...PROOF it.. let your employees at the call centers know this by at least giving them enough talk time to explain everything to us..that way YOU KNOW..YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB WITH THE CUSTOMER and then customer has no excuses as to why the service got turned off. It's not spoon feeding..it's called being THOROUGH..something many companies have shunned down the drain and replaced with SELL SELL SELL QUANTITY QUANTITY QUANTITY, MARKET SHARE VALUE MARKET SHARE VALUE..the moment ANY company quits WORSHIPPING the all might fico score and dollar sign..and focusing more on customer service, product performance and dependability, and HONEST THOROUGH advertising...that company WILL BE TOP DOG AND IT WILL HAVE EARNED IT..and you will KEEP MORE CUSTOMER'S BUT ALSO THE KEY IS..YOU WILL KEEP MORE HONEST, DEPENDABLE AND RESPONSIBLE CUSTOMERS... lifelong responsible customer's + a business that takes care of them completely ......equals DEE DEE DEEEEEEEE a lifelong great relationship and renewal in bonds between people and a company that keep making them money in the stock market... while im on the rant about USING COMMON SENSE... SLAP SOME F KIN SOLAR CELLS AND WIND MILLS ON the roofs why dont ya and then you'll notice EVERYONE BENEFITS...NO MORE ELECTRIC BILL OF 1000 TO 20000 PER MONTH.MEANS..you can keep prices the same..for all services and package deals MUCH MUCH LONGER. raise employee wages or benefits or both, while all the time NOT taking a risk in how much you are worth on the stock market....NOTHING ....NOTHING ECONOMICALLy is higher in value and REALISTIC goal thatn FREE ENERGY PRODUCTION. hey OBAMA INSANE BARACK...since you're so in the pissing away our freedoms and our medical services with this FACISTS, COMMUNIST thinking that you have...why not take back that stupid bail out you gave to the auto industry..and put half of it into FREE ENERGY PRODUCTION..something that will benefit..EVERYONE IN THE U.S.A. from the middle class working to pay your sorry butt for screwing us over...to the big corporate businesses that wont have a light bill anymore...DING DING DING..WE HAVE A WINNER. we can solve the other problems later. LONG LIVE FREE ENERGY, LONG LIVE COMMON SENSE, LONG LIVE DR RON PAUL, DAVID RAMSEY, Rev Manning, Tyler Perry's House of Pain, George Carlin ( bless his crazy soul lol), AND F K the Trilateral Commision, F K all the bushes, clinton, juliani who wanted to put the mark of the beast in us, and above all else... F K Barack INSANE OBAMA for trying to screw over our medical system. A GOVERNMENT CONTROL medical world ( just ask canadian and european citizens they know all about it's pathetic waiting times for service) NEVER BENEFITS THE CITIZENS...EVEN IF IT SAVED THE TAX PAYERS MONEY..YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR....NOTHING!!! in american you can get a blood test schedule within usually a few days to a few weeks tops..in canada or Europe....TRY MONTHS OR YEARS....got an emergency? need to be rushed to the E.R.? in america...you may have to wait seconds..or bearly a minute or 3....in the other two places...hehehehhe...try hours or days. in those SOCIALISTS medical societies...most oven..the people have to resort to going to private clinics...and pay double if not quadruple the costs they ORIGINALLy would have paid if they stuck with our kinda of medical society. WHY? because the government in those countries is NOT making enough money ...not enough customers..because they RATION out medical care when they have an abundace of workers and products and services ready...WHY AGAIN would it cost 9000 for a simple blood test in canada at a private clinic...because..the government has to tax them severly to make up for the lost in less customer giving revenue B/C this socialist medical system SUUUUUUUCKS....in the end...who suffers the most....YOU the tax paying consumer who was promised that this new " EFFICIENT" medical system would do better.... bullshit! as George Carlin once said folk..." it's all bullshit and it's bad for ya" PLEASE PEOPLE..FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN....THEIR CHILDREN..PLEASE..I BEG OF YOU....GET ALL THE SIGNATURES YOU CAN ....REMIND THESE MORONS IN CONGRESS, BOTH DEMOCAN AND REPUBLICRAT ( in the end their both equally as crooked) that they WORK FOR YOU..AND THAT YOU are their boss(es) and that you're not going to go through this silent under the rug genocide b/c that is EXACTLY what this type of gov piss poor ran system will cause.. HEY GOV if you want population control...this is NOT the morally proper way to do it. START HANDING OUT CORKS AND CONDOMS and tell people to take a few days off from making 10 babies and trying to live off welfare WHICH COMES OUT OF MY POCKET!!! while your at it. close the damn borders and stop allowing everyone in the word to come in and get free social security benefits when they HAVE paid ONE DIME into the system yet. and one final thing....as David Ramsye once said...TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS..CONGRESS NEEDS TO HAVE TERM LIMITS...2 years max...and no social security benefits UNLESS they can stay in office at least 25 to 30 years..after all THE REST of america has to work that long..and they get taxed...congress member's retirement benefits..( social security included) DOES NOT GET TAXES...talk about hypocritical living above the law. I WORK for comcast in Ms and from EXPERIENCE i can tell you realistically that YES it IS faster than most if not all dsl speeds. in order to HOPE to get 6.0 dsl Extreme as they advertise, You would have to live LITERALLY next door to the broadcast tower. Now POWERBOOST is a f”#$kin JOKE. I CUSTOM BUILD my pcs. I try many of them *(swapping them out once per month to give each pc a real chance.room for fluctuation). I have had comcast’s 8 mg internet at two locations. One was a house and the other now where i live is in an apartment. the house had MUCH faster downloads, webpages load the same at both places. part of the reason..the tech refused to CORRECT my too high upstream power signal and too low of downstream weak signal. but when I was living at the house last year…I would log and test download speeds from 20 different sites for weeks straight. NO MATTER WHAT time of the day or night. example. downloading itunes from Apple.com when you click ” ipod+itunes” tablink at top middle of page and then “download itunes” at far right of screen, at the house I would start with 3.2 mbps, then it would drop to 2 mpbs, then would jump to a measley 2.3 mbps and stay pretty much there throughout the rest of the download. THIS IS AT 3:30 a.m central time. one of the best times to download something you would think. Lest people accessing the site than during day right? Main idea. That powerboost that comcast claims is such a big deal amounts to bearly adding a measly .2 to .6 mbps to downloads REALISTICALLY between 1.5 and 4 at best for an up to 8 mg speed package. Anyone who’s ever downloaded from Microsoft.com, different internet sites, and compared to Apple’s download I mentioned earlier will OBVIOUSLY see that you Apple does theyre home work…AND/OR their products work great so they dont have alot of people needing to access the site or redownload the products…so i think SO FAR the apple site is a decent REALISTIC test for what REAL download speeds you can expect to get with whatever package ( 1mg economy, 6 mg high performance, or 8mg high performance internet), you choose from comcast. and YEAH..i agree the advertisement IS SHADDY…the 99.99 deal that you see Shaquil o neal and Ben Stine on..is NOT 99.99… It’s actually 103.00 plus your sales taxes because of the emta ( phone modem) that is required. my trainers and manager tell me comcast is now offering to SELL these emta’s to customer on a wide area basis but i haven’t see any area’s that sell them yet. I research this stuff EVERY day. so to me..YES..that partial false advertisement. the ad should show 103.00 plus your taxes. now..if comcast woud just ADVERTISE on A HUMBLE AND HONEST level..then that would be great..because even IF they cleaned up their act on everything, customer service ( this means kicking all out all the female black women that sit their filling their nails..and responding to legitimate customer complaints with ” uuuuuuuhuuuuuuuu m” shaking their heads side to side like they have some kinda brain disease, and get more variety of races of works in there, get ALL their freaking techs to ACTUALLY walk up to a home when schedule to.and actually knock on the door and ACTUALLY WAIT a measely 2 to 3 minutes to give the elderly customers a chance to answer so that the few compitent workers at the call centers wouldn’t have to apology to the customer for a tech that acted like he was going to do the job, then showed us he couldn’t care less, then we have the outside moron contracters…Poole Cable, who employ guys that think it’s ok and professional looking enough to PHYSICALLY run a cable line THROUGH the shingles of your outside backyard of the home straight through the wall. when he’s ALREADY made the appropriate hole near the box junction on the side of the house. Yes the speeds overall MAY be better than dsl , AND I USED to be a Bellsouth cutomer before at&t took them over, the ONLY time it went down ( once we finally got a compitent tech out that could finally figure out why our signal would drop) was when Hurricane Katrina hit…….but I tell ya…as long as the company keeps employing one particular skin color full of snobish, stuckup, big mouth, trash tv jerry springer women at these call centers…you’lll ALWAYS get the same reliable bs service you have come to expect from CONcast. Unless you’re lucky enough to get the few compitent THOROUGH white people that still work there because they have the patience of a GOD. People, customers all over, Please understand no company is perfect. Every company has it’s cons and pros, but when you ACTUALLY work for them, then you will see what I see goes on EVERY DAY. customer’s NOT being told about all payment options and processing speeds..then customer’s get ticked off when a LOCAL comcast clerk tells them, b/c the line is a mile long and the comcast office is closing in a minute, to go to any other payment center ( not specifying that it needs to be a COMCAST office for the payment to show up today if using any other method other than check),..” aaa yeeaah.just go to any other pymt center baby.” they go to tobacco mart, or Pete’s Star Service, or Mississippi Discount Drugs, etc etc..make a CASH payment..and the clerk there tells them the payment will post today. EEEEEK..wrong. every center is different. Some air mail it, some dont, 99 percent of the time..they either send US ..comcast a check or money order..that often takes between 2 to 6 business days for it to arrive in OUR hands..let along if it’s a check..that’s an extra 1 to 2 business days to process. at this point the customer is very irrate because she was told WRONG and NOT THOROUGHLY enough in the end or should i say..beginning , by WHO….another black female clerk that does not believe in being THOROUGH when she tell a customer something that way IF SHE WOULD have been thorough and explained about third party payment centers and why it wouldn’t show up on her comcast account yet..then yeah..the customer would have still been annoyed but at least..that would have covered the black female work’s butt and the customer would have calmed down eventually and still maybe would have had the option of paying OVER THE PHONE..with either a live comcast call center rep for 4.00 fee ( in our area MS) or free of charge on the IVR or automated phone pay service. also. the company puts a 5:00 average call time restriction on US the call center reps and when you think about it. THERE IS NO WAY to 100 PERCENT and THOROUGHLY serve our customer’s giving them ALL the information they need BEFORE hand to prevent these such headaches and more AS THEY COULD AND SHOULD be prevented..with such a ridiculously short call time restriction. we have THREE big products to explain and deal with..not to mention when box drivers go down, outages in areas happen, new customers..explaining billing cycles, payment methods, services inclusions, hours of comcast office operations, etc…it’s too much info to explain in 5 min or less..and people WONDER why many agents sound like fast talking robots..THE COMPANY requires that we be this way…and what happens..when you have a guy like me..who in the immortal words of George Carlin >…” thinks logically” and chooses to be a HUMAN..meaning..and i quote ” i dont believe in RUSHING my customers off the phone..and im NOT going to assume that it’s THEIR responsiblity to THINK or remember to THINK to ask about all our payment options and processing speeds. THAT’S MY JOB to remember this stuff and OFFER it to them..they shouldn’t HAve to remember to ask…and then end up in the before mention situation to where they’re services would be cut off if they decided to go on vacation for 2.8 weeks YES…rare situation but i am HUMBLE and sometimes..customer will take a vacation for almost 3 weeks. and come back JUST before our collection calendars schedule the tech to come out and physically cut them off at the pole or green box on the ground. the BEST thing any comcast customer can do is get a TON of signatures and send them to your nearest corporate manager saying ” we got the inside info and we know how your treating your employees with these ridiculously short call time maximums. If you are THAT INTEREST in RUSHING your customer’s off the phone.then perhaps we need to go to Direct TV and Dish, they seem to be granted the time they need to be thorough with us THE CUSTOMER..THE BOSS…Customer is TOP priorit RIGHT…PROOF it.. let your employees at the call centers know this by at least giving them enough talk time to explain everything to us..that way YOU KNOW..YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB WITH THE CUSTOMER and then customer has no excuses as to why the service got turned off. It’s not spoon feeding..it’s called being THOROUGH..something many companies have shunned down the drain and replaced with SELL SELL SELL QUANTITY QUANTITY QUANTITY, MARKET SHARE VALUE MARKET SHARE VALUE..the moment ANY company quits WORSHIPPING the all might fico score and dollar sign..and focusing more on customer service, product performance and dependability, and HONEST THOROUGH advertising…that company WILL BE TOP DOG AND IT WILL HAVE EARNED IT..and you will KEEP MORE CUSTOMER’S BUT ALSO THE KEY IS..YOU WILL KEEP MORE HONEST, DEPENDABLE AND RESPONSIBLE CUSTOMERS… lifelong responsible customer’s + a business that takes care of them completely ……equals DEE DEE DEEEEEEEE a lifelong great relationship and renewal in bonds between people and a company that keep making them money in the stock market… while im on the rant about USING COMMON SENSE… SLAP SOME F KIN SOLAR CELLS AND WIND MILLS ON the roofs why dont ya and then you’ll notice EVERYONE BENEFITS…NO MORE ELECTRIC BILL OF 1000 TO 20000 PER MONTH.MEANS..you can keep prices the same..for all services and package deals MUCH MUCH LONGER. raise employee wages or benefits or both, while all the time NOT taking a risk in how much you are worth on the stock market….NOTHING ….NOTHING ECONOMICALLy is higher in value and REALISTIC goal thatn FREE ENERGY PRODUCTION. hey OBAMA INSANE BARACK…since you’re so in the pissing away our freedoms and our medical services with this FACISTS, COMMUNIST thinking that you have…why not take back that stupid bail out you gave to the auto industry..and put half of it into FREE ENERGY PRODUCTION..something that will benefit..EVERYONE IN THE U.S.A. from the middle class working to pay your sorry butt for screwing us over…to the big corporate businesses that wont have a light bill anymore…DING DING DING..WE HAVE A WINNER. we can solve the other problems later. LONG LIVE FREE ENERGY, LONG LIVE COMMON SENSE, LONG LIVE DR RON PAUL, DAVID RAMSEY, Rev Manning, Tyler Perry’s House of Pain, George Carlin ( bless his crazy soul lol), AND F K the Trilateral Commision, F K all the bushes, clinton, juliani who wanted to put the mark of the beast in us, and above all else… F K Barack INSANE OBAMA for trying to screw over our medical system. A GOVERNMENT CONTROL medical world ( just ask canadian and european citizens they know all about it’s pathetic waiting times for service) NEVER BENEFITS THE CITIZENS…EVEN IF IT SAVED THE TAX PAYERS MONEY..YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR….NOTHING!!! in american you can get a blood test schedule within usually a few days to a few weeks tops..in canada or Europe….TRY MONTHS OR YEARS….got an emergency? need to be rushed to the E.R.? in america…you may have to wait seconds..or bearly a minute or 3….in the other two places…hehehehhe…try hours or days. in those SOCIALISTS medical societies…most oven..the people have to resort to going to private clinics…and pay double if not quadruple the costs they ORIGINALLy would have paid if they stuck with our kinda of medical society. WHY? because the government in those countries is NOT making enough money …not enough customers..because they RATION out medical care when they have an abundace of workers and products and services ready…WHY AGAIN would it cost 9000 for a simple blood test in canada at a private clinic…because..the government has to tax them severly to make up for the lost in less customer giving revenue B/C this socialist medical system SUUUUUUUCKS….in the end…who suffers the most….YOU the tax paying consumer who was promised that this new ” EFFICIENT” medical system would do better…. bullshit! as George Carlin once said folk…” it’s all bullshit and it’s bad for ya” PLEASE PEOPLE..FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN….THEIR CHILDREN..PLEASE..I BEG OF YOU….GET ALL THE SIGNATURES YOU CAN ….REMIND THESE MORONS IN CONGRESS, BOTH DEMOCAN AND REPUBLICRAT ( in the end their both equally as crooked) that they WORK FOR YOU..AND THAT YOU are their boss(es) and that you’re not going to go through this silent under the rug genocide b/c that is EXACTLY what this type of gov piss poor ran system will cause.. HEY GOV if you want population control…this is NOT the morally proper way to do it. START HANDING OUT CORKS AND CONDOMS and tell people to take a few days off from making 10 babies and trying to live off welfare WHICH COMES OUT OF MY POCKET!!! while your at it. close the damn borders and stop allowing everyone in the word to come in and get free social security benefits when they HAVE paid ONE DIME into the system yet. and one final thing….as David Ramsye once said…TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS..CONGRESS NEEDS TO HAVE TERM LIMITS…2 years max…and no social security benefits UNLESS they can stay in office at least 25 to 30 years..after all THE REST of america has to work that long..and they get taxed…congress member’s retirement benefits..( social security included) DOES NOT GET TAXES…talk about hypocritical living above the law.

]]> By: admin http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-2628 admin Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:00:04 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-2628 @Jon Comcast now offers 22Mbit and 50Mbit internet access in certain areas (including mine), which pretty much makes PowerBoost moot. @Jon

Comcast now offers 22Mbit and 50Mbit internet access in certain areas (including mine), which pretty much makes PowerBoost moot.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-2582 Jon Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:36:34 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-2582 Powerboost is pretty stetchly advertised, but I'm glad I got it. I work a lot with file transfering, hence the need for high speed. Now, if I transfer lots of stuff via FTP, the speed boost initially is up to 7mbps upstream, then it caps down to 2mbps. If I manually pause the xfer for 5 seconds, and start it up again, the connection goes up to 7mbps again. So in theory by doing this, I could have a 4-5mbps line all for $100 a month! I know businesses that pay $1000 a month for symetrical T1 @ 1.544 mbps, I just laugh, cuz im twice as fast, for a fraction of the cost. OUT Powerboost is pretty stetchly advertised, but I’m glad I got it.
I work a lot with file transfering, hence the need for high speed.

Now, if I transfer lots of stuff via FTP, the speed boost initially is up to 7mbps upstream, then it caps down to 2mbps.
If I manually pause the xfer for 5 seconds, and start it up again, the connection goes up to 7mbps again.

So in theory by doing this, I could have a 4-5mbps line all for $100 a month!
I know businesses that pay $1000 a month for symetrical T1 @ 1.544 mbps, I just laugh, cuz im twice as fast, for a fraction of the cost.

OUT

]]> By: Mason http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-664 Mason Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:00:21 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-664 I had Comcast for years , my only problem was that i had to pay for cable TV just to get internet service. So one day i decide to switch to verizon. I sign up for the FIOS service. And a few days latter a DSL modem shows up and I it is so slow I am disgusted. The DSL speed difference changed how i used the internet because it was just to slow to do most of the type of downloads i was used to. Plus my router would not work with Verizon's service and they wanted me to rent a different one from them. I went back to comcast now and I pay the extra ten bucks to get 16mbs. I love it. All is well. but then i find out Comcast is going to screw all of us with this new download limit starting Oct. 1st. I had Comcast for years , my only problem was that i had to pay for cable TV just to get internet service. So one day i decide to switch to verizon. I sign up for the FIOS service. And a few days latter a DSL modem shows up and I it is so slow I am disgusted. The DSL speed difference changed how i used the internet because it was just to slow to do most of the type of downloads i was used to. Plus my router would not work with Verizon’s service and they wanted me to rent a different one from them. I went back to comcast now and I pay the extra ten bucks to get 16mbs. I love it. All is well. but then i find out Comcast is going to screw all of us with this new download limit starting Oct. 1st.

]]> By: Cerem http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-589 Cerem Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:18:06 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-589 That would be nice except for one thing. I have comcast, and I've downloaded files over 700mb in very short order. Much shorter than that. That would be nice except for one thing.
I have comcast, and I’ve downloaded files over 700mb in very short order.
Much shorter than that.

]]> By: admin http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-549 admin Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:47:26 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-549 @Expert Even so, 6mbps isn't "way" faster than 3mbps. That's like saying 56k is "way faster than 33.6k". The difference in web browsing, between 3 and 6mbps, isn't significant to the average user. Downloading large files is a different matter, however. @Expert

Even so, 6mbps isn’t “way” faster than 3mbps. That’s like saying 56k is “way faster than 33.6k”. The difference in web browsing, between 3 and 6mbps, isn’t significant to the average user. Downloading large files is a different matter, however.

]]> By: Expert http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-548 Expert Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:16:09 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-548 In a lot of areas that Comcast services, Verizon is the DSL provider, and only offers up to 3mbps DSL. So even if you get 6mbps Comcast, which is the slowest, crappiest package they offer, you're still downloading twice as fast. Most of Comcast's "PR Bull" is against Verizon, not faster, modern DSL providers. In a lot of areas that Comcast services, Verizon is the DSL provider, and only offers up to 3mbps DSL. So even if you get 6mbps Comcast, which is the slowest, crappiest package they offer, you’re still downloading twice as fast. Most of Comcast’s “PR Bull” is against Verizon, not faster, modern DSL providers.

]]> By: Protag http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-538 Protag Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:56:21 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-538 @ Huggs: Competition? No way. Look at the speeds in Europe and Japan. They are SO much faster than in America. Why? Forced obsolescence. It is much easier (and cheaper) for corporate ISP's to maintain their infrastructure that can only handle so much traffic instead of make the necessary upgrades to provide state-of-the-art/state-of-the-world service. This is another instance of an American corporation simply putting profit above the providing a service that rightfully earns them profit. @ Huggs: Competition? No way. Look at the speeds in Europe and Japan. They are SO much faster than in America. Why? Forced obsolescence. It is much easier (and cheaper) for corporate ISP’s to maintain their infrastructure that can only handle so much traffic instead of make the necessary upgrades to provide state-of-the-art/state-of-the-world service. This is another instance of an American corporation simply putting profit above the providing a service that rightfully earns them profit.

]]> By: admin http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-533 admin Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:02:42 +0000 http://blog.charcoalphile.com/2008/06/16/comcast-powerboost-is-pr-bs/#comment-533 Qwest now offers 20mbps access in select areas. It's FTTN, though, so you won't see speeds nearly as fast as FiOS. It's way overpriced. Qwest now offers 20mbps access in select areas. It’s FTTN, though, so you won’t see speeds nearly as fast as FiOS. It’s way overpriced.

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