Exactly.
The only other option was the dish that goes out in rain and snow.
Everything with Comcast was a disaster : Equipment was crap, cable was coax buried 3 inches below the ground surface, and the only way to briefly describe their technical and phone support is that they must hate us, I could complain for an hour
In 2008 Verizon FIOS put in their fiber optics and there is no price that Comcast can offer me to go back.