Comments on: Oops! Comcast forgets to lay cable to customer’s house http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/23/oops-comcast-forgets-to-lay-cable-to-customers-house/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:01:30 -0500 hourly 1 By: Andy V http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/23/oops-comcast-forgets-to-lay-cable-to-customers-house/comment-page-1/#comment-1008401 Andy V Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:00:05 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=30735#comment-1008401 Last time they came in my house, it took them 8 hours to install a 2nd modem for my phone service, run a coax like 4 feet, and in the end the cable was installed 4 feet off of the ground, far from where it could ever be hidden or useful, basically just where the guy happened to be sitting - then in the end he left as I came back in to find a chunk of wall cut out, drywall dust EVERYWHERE and the wall-plate not installed, but just left sitting on the ground, cracked.. The install before was when my line from the street to my main drop went bad.. The install involved someone digging a 16" deep trench up my FRONT LAWN.. Not uncommon? Yeah well they usually don't make the trench any wider than the cable, this one was the width of the shovel, deep as hell, and went up my perfect lawn from the street to backyard about 35 feet.. But my service is incredible for the area.. Speedboost is life for http - and I even flipped my ports so dang much they finally stopped blocking 'em lol. long live TPB Last time they came in my house, it took them 8 hours to install a 2nd modem for my phone service, run a coax like 4 feet, and in the end the cable was installed 4 feet off of the ground, far from where it could ever be hidden or useful, basically just where the guy happened to be sitting – then in the end he left as I came back in to find a chunk of wall cut out, drywall dust EVERYWHERE and the wall-plate not installed, but just left sitting on the ground, cracked..

The install before was when my line from the street to my main drop went bad.. The install involved someone digging a 16″ deep trench up my FRONT LAWN.. Not uncommon? Yeah well they usually don’t make the trench any wider than the cable, this one was the width of the shovel, deep as hell, and went up my perfect lawn from the street to backyard about 35 feet..

But my service is incredible for the area.. Speedboost is life for http – and I even flipped my ports so dang much they finally stopped blocking ‘em lol. long live TPB

]]> By: Davis Freeberg http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/23/oops-comcast-forgets-to-lay-cable-to-customers-house/comment-page-1/#comment-778181 Davis Freeberg Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:18:34 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=30735#comment-778181 The same thing happened to me three years ago in San Francisco. I had regular cable, but wanted to make the jump to HDTV and I learned that Comcast had juiced up every house on the street, except for the building I lived in. They flat out refused to fix it unless the landlord was willing to pay to have the sidewalks dug up. My landlord said no way and wouldn't even let me put DirecTV on the roof of the building so I ended up moving instead. I'm not sure how their techs managed to wire an entire city, but missed one building, but I'd bet that this is more common then Comcast would lead you to believe. The same thing happened to me three years ago in San Francisco. I had regular cable, but wanted to make the jump to HDTV and I learned that Comcast had juiced up every house on the street, except for the building I lived in. They flat out refused to fix it unless the landlord was willing to pay to have the sidewalks dug up. My landlord said no way and wouldn’t even let me put DirecTV on the roof of the building so I ended up moving instead. I’m not sure how their techs managed to wire an entire city, but missed one building, but I’d bet that this is more common then Comcast would lead you to believe.

]]> By: Bob Caswell http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/23/oops-comcast-forgets-to-lay-cable-to-customers-house/comment-page-1/#comment-777918 Bob Caswell Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:12 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=30735#comment-777918 With the latest Comcast complaining going on, I thought it would be a good time to share my latest Comcast story (fun stuff involving phone spam): http://bobcaswell.com/2008/07/23/comcast-screws-up-but-then-makes-it-up-to-me/ With the latest Comcast complaining going on, I thought it would be a good time to share my latest Comcast story (fun stuff involving phone spam):

http://bobcaswell.com/2008/07/23/comcast-screws-up-but-then-makes-it-up-to-me/

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