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Comment on Comcast digital voice? by Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:55:12 +0000

I’ve had the phone service for two years now living in a 70 year old house in Tacoma, WA. Never had a problem with the service, we call long distance every day and not having to pay for long distance was more than welcome.

However, I do work for Comcast. I did have the service before i worked here and I still really enjoy my phone service.

Comment on Comcast digital voice? by Saul

Saul — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:44:00 +0000

Very helpful posts, guys. I’ll chime in now, even though the thread is over a year old. I live in Chicago have had unlimited nationwide digital phone service and internet service averaging about 400KB/s downloads. Only issue I have with these services is pricing.
BTW, make sure you setup and change your digital voicemail to your liking ASAP, if you decide to get the digital phone service.
FYI - I’m trying to give AT&T DSL a try(it’s cheaper), but having issues installing - maybe because I have Comcast digital voice.
AT&T said it may have something to do with a “dry loop(?).”

Comment on Another lousy headline: “Comcast Cuts Off Bandwidth Hogs” by Joseph W. Berlinger

Joseph W. Berlinger — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:42:33 +0000

Add this to Comcast trying to be the worst compnay in America. Thye now cut off part of your email because of ads on either side of it, so even if you go down to the scroll bars at the bottom, and move your mail left and/or right you often cannot read your email in its entirety. Simple solution, just have your email forwarded to most any other supplier and ditch Comcast as I have done. With the automatic forwarding, I don’t even have to let people know I am no longer using Comcast. I thought Adelphia was bad, Comcast stinks! When I asked them about unreadable emails, the answer I got was ” well, we have to advertise!”

Comment on Avoid Fifth Third Bank at all costs… by Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:09:43 +0000

I have never been treated so unhumain by any bank as I have with Fifth Third bank.

I had a minor overdaft and tried to resolve it quickly but they frefused to give me any gace. They allowed it continue to draw overdraft fees up to three hundred dollars. All over what they consider their timing in realtion to a twenty dollar overdraft that I made a deposit to cover. They however, posted my charges before the deposit allowing this to ring up many dollars in overdraft. When trying to resolve the problem, they were not understandable in anyway, in fact, did everything they could to get more money.

I have had accounts with several other banks and they have never treated me with such disrespect.

I would highly suggest to investigate other banks before ever getting involved with fifth third.

Comment on Bye-bye GNOME by Aijaz Baig

Aijaz Baig — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:17:03 +0000

Hay folks with xfce..ive got xfce3 on my box and I cannot turn on wire frame dragging.

Id like my windows to be transparent save the borders when I move them.

Is this available on xfce3?

Comment on Comcast digital voice? by Adonis

Adonis — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:32:42 +0000

Hello, I live in Florida, I’ve been using the phone service from a company called Lightyear Network Solutions for 10 months now, going into 11 months and I have to say, it’s a good service. It’s way cheaper than the At&t service I used to have. It’s also cheaper than the C.D.V service, unless you get one of those 6 months deal with them.

Anyway, my monthly charge is 24.99 plus tax. Once I add on the tax it comes out to $29.20, that’s a great saving. I had never paid so little for a phone service that inlcudes all the great features plus long distance calling to all the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and a few other countries for free. If I call customer service, of course I have to wait a bit before they answer, but I don’t have to go through 10 automated prompts before reaching the rep. I just dial 1 twice and wait for the rep.

Another great thing is that if I travel I can take my adapter with me, connect it and have a dial tone. Say goodbye to high phone bills. I wish cellphone bills were that cheap. Read more about it at http://focusvoip.en.mylightyear.com/products_xstreamvoip.html

Comment on Comcast digital voice? by Maia Kelley

Maia Kelley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:21:26 +0000

Update to my previous post: Comcast came out and checked everything over and (at first) couldn’t find anything wrong. The the phone kept hanging up on the tech so he knew I wasn’t crazy. Anyway, he swapped out the modem and that fixed it. Since I did announce to the world that my service was (initially) pretty crappy I thought I should be fair and repost saying that since getting a new modem I haven’t had any problems.

Comment on Comcast digital voice? by Karen

Karen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:22:14 +0000

I just signed up today to get Comcast Digital Voice, but you have all scared me away and now I think I’ll cancel. I’ve had Qwest for years and their service has been great with reasonable costs. I have Comcast cable TV and love it. I am still planning on switching to the highspeed internet service because I can save a lot on the current special. I was also told that the customer support techs are local (speak American English) and, after spending an hour with Earthlink’s Indian techs today, I’m ready for a change.

Comment on Avoid Fifth Third Bank at all costs… by L

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:08:58 +0000

If it’s any consolation (and probably not much), I’ve been hatin’ on Fifth Third for going on five years now. Abysmal customer service and absolutely no accountability. Sorry they’ve been teh suck for you too.

Comment on Upgraded to 2.5 by jed

jed — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:21:05 +0000

I’m going to wait a bit before upgrading. See if a .1 release shows up quickly.

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