Comcast High-Speed
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You know you're in a room full of nerds, when you post a thread with a humorous video about High-Speed internet using a Rabbit-Panther-Jet-Enabled-Hairless-thingie being driven by an overly-caffeinated-jet-pilot-with-a-led-foot and everyone's discussing what their actual download speeds are ... I feel like I've just told a joke to Mr. Spock, and he's standing there, staring at me, eyebrow raised, saying "It's not logical Douglas, they didn't mention actual speeds.". ;p
Now I did think the video was funny, quite funny at that.. However my involvement in the discussion about speeds is because I do not believe a darn word that they say. There is no other company that I have business with that I trust less. And most of this is distrust is generated by the constant barrage of false adverts / borderline lies that I see every single day as a customer. Eventually, when I call them to disconnect my service this will be one of the reasons I mention. The other will be the rate hikes and service changes (moving popular channels to different packages forcing upgrades).
John
modified on Friday, February 27, 2009 2:14 PM
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Ok that was funny, but CrapCast still sucks :laugh: They will only stop sucking when (if!) they fix their P2P policy and their inconsistent lying about it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Did Ghandi have the slowest fast?
No, but Gandhi definitely has the most commonly mis-spelt name among well known people in history :-)
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkUp there with Gurta and Neechee? :-D
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The interesting bit about the ad is that there's absolutely no mention of the speeds :-) Just saying "fast" or "fastest" or "fastest fast (sic)" is all nice, but it'd be nice if they mentioned some actual mbps numbers.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkI've been getting a bunch of flyers from some ISP (I forget which); the flyers and the Website give the speeds but not the technology. I assume it's neither cable nor fiber, so I'm not interested, but I'd like to know.
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Now I did think the video was funny, quite funny at that.. However my involvement in the discussion about speeds is because I do not believe a darn word that they say. There is no other company that I have business with that I trust less. And most of this is distrust is generated by the constant barrage of false adverts / borderline lies that I see every single day as a customer. Eventually, when I call them to disconnect my service this will be one of the reasons I mention. The other will be the rate hikes and service changes (moving popular channels to different packages forcing upgrades).
John
modified on Friday, February 27, 2009 2:14 PM
John M. Drescher wrote:
The other will be the rate hikes and service changes (moving popular channels to different packages forcing upgrades).
I've discussed this with many people here in my office as well. My rates just went up, and the wife and I decided to downgrade to their lowest basic package, because we're sick of their B.S. FYI - I was also guilty of speed discussions, I just find it funny that none of us can seem to escape our nerdism.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Did Ghandi have the slowest fast?
No, but Gandhi definitely has the most commonly mis-spelt name among well known people in history :-)
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
No, but Gandhi definitely has the most commonly mis-spelt name among well known people in history
I can also never remember if it's Khan or Kahn.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.
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Up there with Gurta and Neechee? :-D
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Up there with Gurta and Neechee?
I assume Gurta is a misspelling for Gupta (an Indian name). I've never heard of NeeChee.
Regards, Nish
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dan neely wrote:
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Well a lot of Indians would mis-spell that too I'd think. Sadly for me, a lot of Indians mis-spell my name as "Nishanth" :-( Luckily no westerner has done that to me yet.
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
Sadly for me, a lot of Indians mis-spell my name
Alternatively, May be it was mis-spelled by your parents and you came to think of mis-spelling as the real spelling.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Sadly for me, a lot of Indians mis-spell my name
Alternatively, May be it was mis-spelled by your parents and you came to think of mis-spelling as the real spelling.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Alternatively, May be it was mis-spelled by your parents and you came to think of mis-spelling as the real spelling.
Google has 5 times the search results for "Nishant" as it has for "Nishanth" - so I doubt if that is so. Even assuming that they misspelled my name originally, people who reply to my posts should know to use the right spelling.
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I am already on Comcast and I think I get 8 Mbps (or perhaps only 6 Mbps).
That is what I got the last time I checked with speedtest. http://www.speedtest.net/[^]
John
Do you know how slow my internet connection is compared to the rest of the globe? Its faster than 1% of other connections worldwide, and I have a decent connection to the internet. Sad.
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maybe, OTOH outside of india; I suspect almost everyone who knows of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar misspells his name.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
You'd be astonished by how many people misspells my name... :omg:
I see dead pixels
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Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]
Can't wait for El Corazon to meet one of those critters, whilst out on the range.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Up there with Gurta and Neechee?
I assume Gurta is a misspelling for Gupta (an Indian name). I've never heard of NeeChee.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkIntentional manglings of German philosophers.
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Can't wait for El Corazon to meet one of those critters, whilst out on the range.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Unlikely to be any ice there, but the rest is feasible.
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You'd be astonished by how many people misspells my name... :omg:
I see dead pixels
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Unlikely to be any ice there, but the rest is feasible.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Unlikely to be any ice there
Are you sure? My local supermarket has a large section for Frozen Desserts.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Unlikely to be any ice there
Are you sure? My local supermarket has a large section for Frozen Desserts.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Henry Minute wrote:
Frozen Desserts
Yes, but what about frozen deserts? (Though we have had a few hail storms in recent months...)
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Henry Minute wrote:
Frozen Desserts
Yes, but what about frozen deserts? (Though we have had a few hail storms in recent months...)
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Yes, but what about frozen deserts
Well Coyotes, Camels and Scorpions don't have fur coats for nothing. So it must get cold there sometimes?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Yes, but what about frozen deserts
Well Coyotes, Camels and Scorpions don't have fur coats for nothing. So it must get cold there sometimes?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Yeah, I was gonna say that Scorpions wear Spandex.
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If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you. Mine was 16MBit and I am pretty sure 30MBit FIOS is in my neighborhood so not the fastest where I live..
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you.
And if it is not in your area, they ask you to move in new area where you get comcast, :-D also providing link to a realestate site, great work !!!! :)