wonderwall
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I live a little too far from the city to have many options so I am stuck with Comcast, in my experience the worst ISP one can be connected with. The connection speed is unreliable. I occasionally get 2mbps which is nice, but kind of rare. Upload is complete **** at times. And this bandwith cap... never had a problem with it until this month and I have always used the service quite liberally. Then we get a rather threatening phone call from some "Customer Security" guy with a bad attitude tossing out threats before we even knew what the hell was going on. Seriously one of the rudest people I've ever had to deal with.
So basically, if we go over our limit one more time (still not sure how we did this time but never before) we will be disconnected and not "allowed" to have their service for one year. Like we would seriously come crawling back. The other thing that REALLY bothered me is that the guys claimed he was monitoring our usage. Whether or not he meant how much data was going in and out or actually viewing the data itself, he was not clear. I don't think the latter is even legal but that bothers me to think someone could be reading my every post/conversation or the music I download to try before I buy.
I desperately want to switch to another provider and flip Comcast the bird, as I'm sick of their policies, threats and out-right lies in some cases. But yeah, no other choice besides Hughes-Net at the moment (which we are probably gonna switch to anyway because this crap has gotten old). Just been trying to hold out for FiOS for the past couple years.
So how about you guys? How has your experience been with your ISP? Did you have one before that you were glad to get away from?
So basically, if we go over our limit one more time (still not sure how we did this time but never before) we will be disconnected and not "allowed" to have their service for one year. Like we would seriously come crawling back. The other thing that REALLY bothered me is that the guys claimed he was monitoring our usage. Whether or not he meant how much data was going in and out or actually viewing the data itself, he was not clear. I don't think the latter is even legal but that bothers me to think someone could be reading my every post/conversation or the music I download to try before I buy.
I desperately want to switch to another provider and flip Comcast the bird, as I'm sick of their policies, threats and out-right lies in some cases. But yeah, no other choice besides Hughes-Net at the moment (which we are probably gonna switch to anyway because this crap has gotten old). Just been trying to hold out for FiOS for the past couple years.
So how about you guys? How has your experience been with your ISP? Did you have one before that you were glad to get away from?