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Is it that rare of an occurrence that it's worth reporting in the newspaper? Comcast goes down in my area a few times a year, every year, for the 20 years I've been handcuffed to them. It's not ideal, but I wouldn't describe it as a newsworthy event.
I can’t help but wonder if this is the result of a cyber attack on Comcast’s infra.
One nice thing about San Francisco is we have many great alternatives for ISPs. Comcast truly is terrible. Wave Broadband is an excellent competing cable Internet company. Sonic is the best ISP I have ever had or could even imagine; reliable symmetric gigabit fiber, super low latency (4ms to the edge, it's all glass), tech support that knows what they're doing. There's also MonkeyBrains for 100+Mbps fixed wireless. N…
And as far as alternatives, in the Southbay it's very limited. I looked into this when I moved earlier this year and even Sonic only had DSL available where I live now. AT&T didn't even offer gigabit, and I'm not exactly in a bad spot other than that it's a suburb area (but I'm extremely close to a HQ for a FAANG).
North bay here. My Verizon cell service (calls + data) went down at the exact same time (10pm last night, for about 1-2 hours), and started working again at the same time Comcast came back online. Did that happen to anyone else? Felt like I was going crazy.
One nice thing about San Francisco is we have many great alternatives for ISPs. Comcast truly is terrible. Wave Broadband is an excellent competing cable Internet company. Sonic is the best ISP I have ever had or could even imagine; reliable symmetric gigabit fiber, super low latency (4ms to the edge, it's all glass), tech support that knows what they're doing. There's also MonkeyBrains for 100+Mbps fixed wireless. N…
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/fcc-siding-landlords-a...
One nice thing about San Francisco is we have many great alternatives for ISPs. Comcast truly is terrible. Wave Broadband is an excellent competing cable Internet company. Sonic is the best ISP I have ever had or could even imagine; reliable symmetric gigabit fiber, super low latency (4ms to the edge, it's all glass), tech support that knows what they're doing. There's also MonkeyBrains for 100+Mbps fixed wireless. N…
That's a relatively new "nice thing", though. Amongst a lot of techies it was actually a joke how bad SV and SFO had it with internet options until recently. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/fcc-siding-landlords-a...
One nice thing about San Francisco is we have many great alternatives for ISPs. Comcast truly is terrible. Wave Broadband is an excellent competing cable Internet company. Sonic is the best ISP I have ever had or could even imagine; reliable symmetric gigabit fiber, super low latency (4ms to the edge, it's all glass), tech support that knows what they're doing. There's also MonkeyBrains for 100+Mbps fixed wireless. N…
ISP monopolies are a huge problem and I find smaller ISPs tend to have better services. My previous apartment has a dedicated support team from a small ISP, and the tier 1 rep on the support line was capable of explaining the building's network topology and how they do natting.
Comcast/xfinity is horrible, last month during the atmospheric river my parents lost internet for 4 days. There was no update ever of when it would come back and their CS agent actually suggested that although they are working from home they should go use a public xfinity wifi spot... I suggested to him that he turn off his internet and go work at a public wifi point and tell me if that's a good solution
> their CS agent actually suggested that although they are working from home they should go use a public xfinity wifi spot
That's a reasonable workaround, given that their home Internet is unavailable.
Their twitter feed was hilarious - individuals were reporting outages as part of a collective 'me too' and instead of Comcast saying there's a big issue with our network, they replied (probably with a bot) to every message asking to be be DM'd with the account details so they could look into it. To get to the outage map, the default path from their site (which was also down), you had to sign in to see that your very…
Their twitter feed was hilarious - individuals were reporting outages as part of a collective 'me too' and instead of Comcast saying there's a big issue with our network, they replied (probably with a bot) to every message asking to be be DM'd with the account details so they could look into it. To get to the outage map, the default path from their site (which was also down), you had to sign in to see that your very…
Hmmm. My tinfoil hat tells me that Comcast may be doing this to tie users Twitter accounts to their real names and addresses.