Your statement about component video (RGB) into a TV is misleading; it is actually YPbPr. RGB implies that each cable has red, green and blue with each containing sync. You would be hard pressed to find a TV with actual RGB (not RGBHV) on any TV let alone a consumer TV.
YPbPr is as follows: Y=luma, Pb=different between blue and luma, and Pr is difference between red and luma.
If they didn't keep pushing the date out, they would have to change it from "near" to "here". Clearly they can't have this, thus they keep moving the date.
I wasn't bragging. I was simply stating that DSL is not much cheaper and I was fine with the price point. Of course cheaper would always be beter, but for my area, this is a great speed and price.
Sure, I have had Comcast outages and had to call them, but SBC was not perfect by any manner. After waiting the 2 week 'firearm waiting period' in order to receive DSL, I would ocassionally have some problems. I never called them because their phone support was a nightmare, even when reporting "I know whats wrong" problems. I did use SBC's online support at DSLReports.com and that was great. But should a company pride themselves in poor phone support and great unofficial non-company hosted forum support?
And just for giggles, a summary of the problems I can recall with Comcast:
-Entire cable outage in middle of night. Was resolved by morning -Various DNS issues when I first signed up. Was quickly resolved by using 4.2.2.2 like a good monkey -Slower than provisioned rates while a major fiber trunk was being worked on -Loss of cable after a major storm - node did not have battery backup at the time
Keep in mind all of these were resolved, or had a suitable solution, within 24 hours of reporting the problem.
Your story is pretty interesting and an example of how customer service is SUPPOSED to work, but you'd have to agree that a story like yours seems to be the exception and not the rule with Comcast. I'm not sure how Comcast has their helpdesk setup, but every call to them has been answered quickly, professionally and the person that answered the phone has access to all resources.
My previous call to them was regarding slow internet speeds. The technician that answered the phone did not see any flags on my account but noticed some working being done on a major fiber feed to the neighboring city. While she was not able to resolve my problem, she did ask that I wait the few days through during the work and to call them back if it was still slow after the date teh work was suppose to be complete. Sure enough, the date she gave me, everything was up and running.
I understand people have issues with their support, what I dont understand is how I seem to get perfect support.
Is that speed really worth the money though? To be honest, it is not really that expensive when compared to DSL.
I used to have SBC/AT&T DSL for many years and loved it. However, I did not like the fact that I had to purchase phone service. My last bill I had was $15.00 for phone service, ~$42 for 6Mb internet and about $10 in taxes/fees. My monthly bill was in the $65-$70 range for 6Mb/600Kb service. When I moved and switched to Comcast (no install fee, 6mo discounted service and no contract), I fell in love with it. My current plan is like $65 for the 8Mb plan and a few more dollars for the modem and taxes. I pay about $69/mo out the door (no cable service).
I just called AT&T the other day to get an idea on prices. Since unbudled DSL is not offered for elite (6Mb), I need to get phone service. The phone service is as low as $12/mo, plus the $35/mo DSL and probably another $10 in taxes/fees (I HATE telco fees). So if I purchase the DSL plan, I will be paying slightly less than I am now but will have far slower speeds.
So yes, the price is worth it. Just today I have downloaded 5 different Linux ISOs within an hour.:)
While I agree that it sucks they are blocking P2P apps, I will have to admit their service is pretty darn good. A few case examples:
1) My cable went out at 12am. At 1am I dedcided to give their tech support a ring. I called the number, selected the broadband option, entered my phone number and within 30 seconds I was connected to an AMERICAN technician. I told him I thought our entire cable system went out. He logged into our local node and confirmed our entire area was out.
This being a Saturday night I asked him if it would be fixed over the weekend. To my suprise he said it would be fixed in a couple hours after rolling a truck. Sure enough, I wake up at 8am and all was better.
This is about the 6 call to Comcast and every call has been answered promptly by an American and handled in the upmost professional manner. The same cant be said for SBC/ATT 1st level phone support.
2) I subscribe to their 8Mb/768Kb plan and consistantly receive 8Mb plus transfer rates. The Speedboost to 16Mb is AMAZING! I purchased TF2 over Steam and started the 7GB download. To my suprise I was receiving it at 1.5MB-2.0MB/sec and it was completed in 60min!!!! The same couldn't be said for ATT's DSL.
Sadly, I may be moving soon and out of the Comcast area. At least AT&T's DSL is cheaper than what it used to be (and hopefully the same reliability).
Odd. In my town (and all the surrounding areas I know of) you have no choice as to who provides your power, gas or cable. It's pretty much if you live in X area, Y and Z are the providers. Telco is the only one where you get a choice; and even then, some areas are 'AT&T only'.
Yes he is. Per 47 CFR 91.15
(b) Except as otherwise provided herein, a station antenna structure may be erected at heights and dimensions sufficient to accommodate amateur service communications. (State and local regulation of a station antenna structure must not preclude amateur service communications. Rather, it must reasonably accommodate such communications and must constitute the minimum practicable regulation to accomplish the state or local authority's legitimate purpose. He followed are state and local guidelines and laws. Its just that the HOA couldn't over rule it.
My father in-law moved to a subdivision which had a HOA. Shortly after moving in, he visited the city office to verify the city's limit for radio towers. After doing so he had his nice (I'm guessing) 50ft ham radio tower installed (within city guidelines). Not a day later the person across the street came knocking on his door with the HOA handbook. He told them he is within his legal rights and to have a nice day.
LOL
I love the site of his huge tower in this "upscale" neighborhood.
It doesnt work in the run line (not the wizard)? The quickest way to link to any printer is to go to run and type in \\[server]\[printer]. same for any file share...I cant see them removing this option.
I'm confused by your Simple load example. Obviously the consumers are paying a flat rate for "unlimited data" (in the USA), but content providers are not. When you deal with large websites/providers, they charge by the bit/byte/whatever. So if Google decides to pump out 100TB/day instead of 1TB/day, they will pay for it. Now, since they pay their provider, that provider has to pay its provider for the increased load - isnt this increased charge (from traffic) always hitting the provider? If the ISP for the end user doesnt like the plan they offered at said price, why not raise the price? Cable companies have been jacking up basic cable prices for years, despite the lack of added benefit.
So all in all, can someone CLEARLY explain how this setup would not work?
Example: If a store (website) on a major street (local ISP pipe) all of a sudden has more customers/cars (end user) coming through the parking lot/side road, they work with the city council/city engineers (ISP) to accomidate the needed changes. The city doesnt say "hey, unless you give us MORE money in addition to the increased taxes you are already give us, we are going to divert traffic".
Your comment confused me. If Google Maps provided only 2 results it should have been very easy to find the place. If you drove to said destination and there was no store in sight it should have been obvious the info was wrong.
Why were you drving around for an hour looking for the shops?
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My sentiments exactly. And I work with hundreds of nerds/engineers/etc.
All of the people I know seem to have WoW lives.
Your statement about component video (RGB) into a TV is misleading; it is actually YPbPr. RGB implies that each cable has red, green and blue with each containing sync. You would be hard pressed to find a TV with actual RGB (not RGBHV) on any TV let alone a consumer TV.
YPbPr is as follows: Y=luma, Pb=different between blue and luma, and Pr is difference between red and luma.
If they didn't keep pushing the date out, they would have to change it from "near" to "here". Clearly they can't have this, thus they keep moving the date.
I wasn't bragging. I was simply stating that DSL is not much cheaper and I was fine with the price point. Of course cheaper would always be beter, but for my area, this is a great speed and price.
Sure, I have had Comcast outages and had to call them, but SBC was not perfect by any manner. After waiting the 2 week 'firearm waiting period' in order to receive DSL, I would ocassionally have some problems. I never called them because their phone support was a nightmare, even when reporting "I know whats wrong" problems. I did use SBC's online support at DSLReports.com and that was great. But should a company pride themselves in poor phone support and great unofficial non-company hosted forum support?
And just for giggles, a summary of the problems I can recall with Comcast:
-Entire cable outage in middle of night. Was resolved by morning
-Various DNS issues when I first signed up. Was quickly resolved by using 4.2.2.2 like a good monkey
-Slower than provisioned rates while a major fiber trunk was being worked on
-Loss of cable after a major storm - node did not have battery backup at the time
Keep in mind all of these were resolved, or had a suitable solution, within 24 hours of reporting the problem.
My previous call to them was regarding slow internet speeds. The technician that answered the phone did not see any flags on my account but noticed some working being done on a major fiber feed to the neighboring city. While she was not able to resolve my problem, she did ask that I wait the few days through during the work and to call them back if it was still slow after the date teh work was suppose to be complete. Sure enough, the date she gave me, everything was up and running.
I understand people have issues with their support, what I dont understand is how I seem to get perfect support. Is that speed really worth the money though? To be honest, it is not really that expensive when compared to DSL.
I used to have SBC/AT&T DSL for many years and loved it. However, I did not like the fact that I had to purchase phone service. My last bill I had was $15.00 for phone service, ~$42 for 6Mb internet and about $10 in taxes/fees. My monthly bill was in the $65-$70 range for 6Mb/600Kb service. When I moved and switched to Comcast (no install fee, 6mo discounted service and no contract), I fell in love with it. My current plan is like $65 for the 8Mb plan and a few more dollars for the modem and taxes. I pay about $69/mo out the door (no cable service).
I just called AT&T the other day to get an idea on prices. Since unbudled DSL is not offered for elite (6Mb), I need to get phone service. The phone service is as low as $12/mo, plus the $35/mo DSL and probably another $10 in taxes/fees (I HATE telco fees). So if I purchase the DSL plan, I will be paying slightly less than I am now but will have far slower speeds.
So yes, the price is worth it. Just today I have downloaded 5 different Linux ISOs within an hour.
While I agree that it sucks they are blocking P2P apps, I will have to admit their service is pretty darn good. A few case examples:
1) My cable went out at 12am. At 1am I dedcided to give their tech support a ring. I called the number, selected the broadband option, entered my phone number and within 30 seconds I was connected to an AMERICAN technician. I told him I thought our entire cable system went out. He logged into our local node and confirmed our entire area was out.
This being a Saturday night I asked him if it would be fixed over the weekend. To my suprise he said it would be fixed in a couple hours after rolling a truck. Sure enough, I wake up at 8am and all was better.
This is about the 6 call to Comcast and every call has been answered promptly by an American and handled in the upmost professional manner. The same cant be said for SBC/ATT 1st level phone support.
2) I subscribe to their 8Mb/768Kb plan and consistantly receive 8Mb plus transfer rates. The Speedboost to 16Mb is AMAZING! I purchased TF2 over Steam and started the 7GB download. To my suprise I was receiving it at 1.5MB-2.0MB/sec and it was completed in 60min!!!! The same couldn't be said for ATT's DSL.
Sadly, I may be moving soon and out of the Comcast area. At least AT&T's DSL is cheaper than what it used to be (and hopefully the same reliability).
Odd. In my town (and all the surrounding areas I know of) you have no choice as to who provides your power, gas or cable. It's pretty much if you live in X area, Y and Z are the providers. Telco is the only one where you get a choice; and even then, some areas are 'AT&T only'.
They are on/off switches. If they were only one or the other, it would not allow you to do the reverse (i.e. turn something off, but not back on).
#2 The crappy interface
#1 The zooming with the scrollwheel does not work as I expect it to and I have not seen any options to customize it to my needs.
Those two reasons alone keep me from using it and staying with Paint Shop Pro.
Have you used the latest version of Acrobat? It is VERY different than any other version.
If I only had mod points. I LOVED that phone call recording!!!
Any PR is good PR.
PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
PBKAC = Problem Between Keyboard And Chair
In other news, the Ford Focus out sells the McClaren F1 and Ferrari 911.
may be erected at heights and dimensions sufficient to accommodate
amateur service communications. (State and local regulation of a station
antenna structure must not preclude amateur service communications.
Rather, it must reasonably accommodate such communications and must
constitute the minimum practicable regulation to accomplish the state or
local authority's legitimate purpose. He followed are state and local guidelines and laws. Its just that the HOA couldn't over rule it.
My father in-law moved to a subdivision which had a HOA. Shortly after moving in, he visited the city office to verify the city's limit for radio towers. After doing so he had his nice (I'm guessing) 50ft ham radio tower installed (within city guidelines). Not a day later the person across the street came knocking on his door with the HOA handbook. He told them he is within his legal rights and to have a nice day.
LOL
I love the site of his huge tower in this "upscale" neighborhood.
It doesnt work in the run line (not the wizard)? The quickest way to link to any printer is to go to run and type in \\[server]\[printer]. same for any file share...I cant see them removing this option.
Did you try \\192.168.1.101\lp1
What is happening is the Sony Execs are thinking "Rootkit!. This is bad". The program managers are misinterpreting it into 'rootkit!=bad'.
I'm confused by your Simple load example. Obviously the consumers are paying a flat rate for "unlimited data" (in the USA), but content providers are not. When you deal with large websites/providers, they charge by the bit/byte/whatever. So if Google decides to pump out 100TB/day instead of 1TB/day, they will pay for it. Now, since they pay their provider, that provider has to pay its provider for the increased load - isnt this increased charge (from traffic) always hitting the provider? If the ISP for the end user doesnt like the plan they offered at said price, why not raise the price? Cable companies have been jacking up basic cable prices for years, despite the lack of added benefit.
So all in all, can someone CLEARLY explain how this setup would not work?
Example: If a store (website) on a major street (local ISP pipe) all of a sudden has more customers/cars (end user) coming through the parking lot/side road, they work with the city council/city engineers (ISP) to accomidate the needed changes. The city doesnt say "hey, unless you give us MORE money in addition to the increased taxes you are already give us, we are going to divert traffic".
Your comment confused me. If Google Maps provided only 2 results it should have been very easy to find the place. If you drove to said destination and there was no store in sight it should have been obvious the info was wrong.
Why were you drving around for an hour looking for the shops?
I meant dont give me crap about not using FF....not "dont give me FF".
I don't see the problem. IE6 and XP work just fine, no need to upgraded.
Yea, yea, dont give me the FF crap.