Yesterday was one of those days when you yearn for the days before our dependency on electronics. You may remember my ranting about Comcast a few weeks ago. Well, we gave them all the patience we had. They came out and did a bunch of re-wiring, etc. Thursday, and it worked great for 12 hours.
Yesterday, service went down. Of course this means no internet or phone. So I called on my cell, and a woman in the corporate office said it was a node issue in our area. Great.
In the meantime, my cell phone died. I noticed that we had service, and connected my phone to the computer. Itunes popped up with an update for the phone and starts the process. Halfway through, I kicked myself for doing it. The phone froze completely. The internet and home phone were down. My main hard drive ran out of space. So from 8:30 last night until this morning my umbilical cord was severed, and I was going into shock.
I survived. The internet and phone were back on this morning. I googled answers to my iPhone issue and actually figured it out. The I made a call to Verizon to solve my Comcast fiasco.
I still remember our first telephone number 1465-M! A simpler life for sure.
—Sharon
Good Morning Gloucester 
1465-M WOW Sharon your really dating yourself….LOL…I’m gald you have evrything back. Hang in there kid
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Ah the good old days when all you had to do was pick up the phone and the operator’s voice would ask….”Number please”!
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Verizon DSL, had it in Massachusetts for years and now down here in Florida. Rarely ever goes down!
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How’s Verizon DSL treating you? We just got our comcast bill yesterday and it went up… a measly 3 bucks but still enough for me to think about switching. We live in E. Gloucester and the internet constantly goes out. 70 bucks a month for internet and BASIC cable consisting of about 20 channels. I haven’t been able to watch the playoffs this year because we don’t have the channels so I was thinking switching to Verizon to solve my Comcast fiasco. 🙂 Plus, if I switch everything over (Verizon DSL and DirectTV) I’ll get more and save money. I’m just worried about reliability.
So, whatcha think about it so far?
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Verizon dsl sucks ass. I have it down the dock and my comcast at home gives me three times faster speeds.
It takes me 20 minutes to upload a video with comcast that would take an hour with Verizon dsl.
I can’t speak to Verizon food though. That might be better. But Verizon dsl like I said sucks
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Thanks Joey. I figured that would be the problem. I wish they provided fios in our area. Looks like I’m going to have to deal with crappy comcast.
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It’s amazing what can screw up one house’s download speed.
1) Cable in your house is flaky.
2) Your modem is old.
3) There was a lightning strike in your neighborhood and your modem is flaky crispy (but still works.)
4) The router on the end of your street is old.
5) Salty air in any of the above connections.
6) a hundred other reasons.
So how do you know if your download/upload rate is as good as everyone else’s?
Easy. Go to http://www.speedtest.net/
and click “begin test”
Then, once a few people on Cape Ann do that and submit their numbers to the website (very easy and anonymous) we can go to the map and compare the Gloucester numbers.
For what it’s worth I have had 1 through 4 occur. Once you know your lousy download speed just call the company and complain. They eventually replace the faulty equipment.
USA average right now is 8Mbps
Comcast in Mass is 15Mbps
If your download speed is less than 7Mbps I would check it a couple days in a row. You might have a simple salty problem.
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Just checked the Gloucester/Rockport numbers:
Comcast Business 23.06 Mbps
Comcast Cable 14.42 Mbps
Verizon Internet Services 2.66
Yup, Verizon sucks.
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I wonder if I have any juice being as we have a blog that pulls 10,000 views on average a day?
maybe the kind folks at verizon would like to help a brotjher out for a kind word.
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