Comment by 🗡️ The_Jackal
Whatever you do, don't ever swap to Viashat. They objectively, and directly lied that we had a grace period, and we did not. We were forced to pay 300 or more dollars to get out after their nearly a hundred damned dollars a month 'high speed data plan' was about a 3mb download rate that dropped to literal dialup speeds or even around 10kb a second after that maybe 15gb of 'high speed data' was used. It even dropped to bytes a second sometimes. The worst internet company I have ever seen in my life, and I genuinely believe they must employ the same people doing scams in call centers.
Mar 22 · 7 weeks ago
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🚀 stack [OP] · Mar 22 at 05:57:
I wonder if they all suck.
🗡️ The_Jackal [Weapons dealer, possibly mutant killer] · Mar 22 at 07:18:
@stack Our current provider seems to be much better. The internet is provided by the power company and is bundled in with the electric bill. It isn't that bothersome handing over a check at their office. No app or website needed, thankfully.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 22 at 08:17:
@stack : they pretty much all suck. People are no longer willing to pay a bit more for a better service, so there's a mad rush to the bottom of the market.
I don't think that's anybody's fault: it's hard to judge quality of service, but it's easy to compare prices. I was bragging earlier about how my VPS only costs 83 cents a month, but that was before I had to contact their tech support. Now I know why it's so cheap.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 22 at 08:19:
Also: I'd never heard of "Cockmast" so I put it into a search engine. Oh, my. That's not a mistake I'll make again.
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Xfinity/Cockmast Bad! — It took me 45 minutes to pay my bill today. I tried 3 different computers with various browsers, and finally did it on my phone with Chrome. It takes minutes for pages to load at their pay system, and you have to disable uBlock and Privacy Badger and all that, even though the site loads tens of web bugs and tracking crap. So it took more than 10 minutes each time, going through 2FA texts and delays just to find out that nope, this won't work. I have to do this every...