Comcast = Bastards
A week ago the cable outlet in one of the rooms of my apartment mysteriously stopped working.
I called RCN to have them fix the problem on Saturday. I tested the line in the room to make sure the line was still not working before the technician showed up. Sure enough, it was still disabled. About 30 minutes later the RCN technician shows up and I start telling him the symptoms of everything as I unhooked the modem from the living room to test it in the bedroom.
The symptoms were as such:
- the modem was was working for the past month
- mysteriously it stopped working on a Wednesday afternoon
- we tested the modem about an hour before he showed up to make sure it was still broken.
When I plugged everything in, the cable modem was magically working. I was dumbfounded: "I swear man, it was just broken before you came in". My roommate was there, too. It's working?
Then the technician pulls a little silver cable filter from his pocket. Comcast had disconnected the cable from some lines in our apartment and placed filters on our plugs while we were away. That stopped the cable from working. Bastards!
If they ever pull that shit again, I wonder if I can sue them.
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Comcast=Bastards
Comcast bought the lowly cable company in a small town in New Mexico where my brother was living in a nursing home. He used to have cable in his room for $6 a month. Comcast raised the rate to $40 and proceeded to clean out my brother's funds: he got $30 a month from the government.
I complained, and they sent me a letter saying "look how many more channels he's getting"(!!) Well, they took all his money & then shut his cable off, of course. I complained to Pete Domenici, but of course, all I got from HIM was a letter asking if anything had been done. It hadn't.
Comcast=Bastards!!