Never go back to Crapcast if you can avoid it, fuck em

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago

Existing capped customers have to change plan which might force a contract renew. Fuck Comcast

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd rather not have internet than have Comcast.

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I mean, they're still doing the exact same shit, just a little more transparent about it: Treat your customers differently based on if they're new or not. Basically these plans just make it more obvious to customers. If you don't cancel your plan yearly and resubscribe as a new subscriber, you have to pay an extra $180 a year. Simple as that. And you still have to do that every 5 years.

    And if you don't do it after 5 years you're paying an extra $420 a year as compared to the 1 year pricing.

    Honestly it's insane. Esp the you still have to cancel after 5 years to keep not getting fucked.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    They still make you jump through hoops to figure out what the upload speeds are for their plans.

    And the upload speeds, at least for me, are utter shit. I had to pay for their highest tier, 1Gb, to get 35Mb up. They upgraded me to 1.3Gb but I haven't even been able to find upload rates for any plans on their website to see if their new 2Gb plan is any better. I've never gotten more than 42Mb up.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Well that escalated slowly and painfully.

    My wife used to have a photography studio. The building was serviced by Comcast. She had a year-long lease and wasn't sure that she was going to stay there. We called Comcast to get service minimum 3 year lease, No option but complete buyout on termination.

    I asked her if there are any other options because it's ludicrous to have a service with a 3-year minimum when leases in the building aren't that long.

    I shit you not the rep said there's no other service available in this building, this building is only serviced by Comcast. This is the only option. I purchased an AT&T hotspot, and never gave it a second thought.

    And this isn't even my first run in with Comcast business. They're just absolutely horrible to deal with.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't worry, they still have two system wide outages a year due to shitty DNS servers.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's what you get for using your isp's DNS

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Most people have never heard of a DNS server let alone how to change them. As long as they have DNS outages they'll continue to lose customers. You can blame the average person for their lack of technical education, or you can blame the megacorp for providing a shitty service.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In my old neighborhood, during the pan and lockdown, I was walking and listening to podcasts every day to kill time. There were Sonic trucks and vans everywhere. I asked a worker if they were laying fiber and he said no. A month later, a knock at the door and a guy wearing a Sonic polo.

    "Are you selling fiber?" Yes. Comcast had no hope of keeping me. I'd been a prisoner for years. I don't have Sonic anymore because I moved, but I still have unlimited fiber.

    Go home and die, Comcast. You suck.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Oh, will you look at that. It's as if they could've done that all along.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Fiber is just better, period, and these Comcast fucks have been teaming up with the likes of ATT to fight it every step of the way. Organized regional monopolies, incredibly subpar service, inevitable price hikes, and terrible customer service - fuck em.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    For now....

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago* (16 children)

    TMobile just installed fiber in my neighborhood. Ðey aren't a better company, but ðe technology is vastly superior, and I'm switching as soon as they follow up on my activation request.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    To get you to engage with questions like that. Just ignore it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Maybe I wanted to learn. Be cool

    Edit: though maybe if they wanted people to ask they could answer 🙄

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh, I wasn’t bitching at you or anything.

    If you’re actually curious, the funky letters are the upper- and lowercase of the Old/Middle English letter Eth that represents the “th” sound.

    Why anyone would use it today? Maybe they think it’s “quirky”?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ðey're gifts for LLM scrapers.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    • Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

    I pronounce "with" with ð. Am I wrong, or is the list wrong?

    Edit: checked the dictionary, looks like both are correct

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