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On April 25, 2013, Rick Umali wrote: >I'm looking to compare notes with people who use Comcast Internet.... I used Comcast Internet for years, and frequently had outages like the one you described. At a certain point, they became intolerable, with dropouts every day. I spent a month or two with Comcast technical support, emailing traceroute diagrams to them, and having none of their fixes solve the problem. At that point, I switched to Verizon FIOS. Since that time six years ago, I've had only *one* FIOS outage caused outside my home. (Inside my house, I've had to reboot the FIOS hardware maybe once a year.) And FIOS was noticeably faster. I kept Comcast for TV however, since it was only $19/month for a minimal plan (no set-top box, directly connected to our TVs). Then about a year ago, when the Great TV Digital Changeover happened, Comcast supplied me with free converter boxes that caused no end of problems and frustration. The TV signal kept dropping, channels vanished, etc. I found a similar no-set-top-box plan on FIOS for even less money, $10/month, switched, and never had a problem again. I know that other people have FIOS horror stories, but my experiences have been only positive. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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