[svcw]

We went with direct tv, we will never go back to cable.
Comcast in our experience is the worst.

[Krankor]

This might be an opportunity to read more.

[raccoonradio]

Here was what the lib posted on the mailing list:
I just received my Comcast bill...(snip) and there it was: NO MSNBC AFTER JULY 15TH! Aside from channels 2 and 44 when they're not in begathon mode... the TV channel I watch most is MSNBC, especially Keith Olbermann, who makes me laugh out loud more than Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert do most nights. I can't write another letter to the Globe so soon after having one published, but I will try to call a talk show about this or send an email to one of the media columnists at the Globe or Herald.

[hole_n_one]

In a nut shell.........

• The Lakers won
• The fat broad from Dancing With the Stars lost
• Tiger is in a 18 hole playoff
• Obama went to church
• Tim Russert is still dead
• Iowa is under water...but that fact is to be kept just between you and me.

[Nowhere Man]

We always had problems like that with digital cable where the signal drops out, so we went with just all the analogue channels. I wonder when Comcast will put the whammy on us to get a digital box. If cable keeps going up, we might just go over the air, the new HDTV convertor boxes do a good job, I run three TV’s that way, a 1982 Zenith 25 inch color console, a 1964 Sony B&W portable and a Commodore 1702 computer monitor. The Zenith is hooked to cable, but we like Retro TV Network which we get over the air. Looks like we might have to feed the “cable pig” more.

[backhoe]

We have their laughingly-misnamed “high-speed internet,” and it drops offline every 30 minutes to an hour.

Yes, “they’re working on it...”

While it is marginally better than AT&T’s DSL ( yep, we had that, prior... ) I have really, really considered going back to dial-up, which, for all its shortcomings, at least as long as you can get a dialtone, you can get online.

[Graybeard58]

A few months ago, my local internet cable provider, Insight Communicatios, sold out to Comcast. The first thing Comcast did was raise the price. Every sunday, I have an interruption of service, internet and TV. Yesterday it started about 6:30 PM and was still off at 2:00 AM this morning.

I’m looking for an alternative but I have had DSL and it was terrible, besides I haven’t had a phone line in years. Is satellite TV and internet expensive?