Comcast Curiosity
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Comcast Curiosity
Comcast Internet rolled out their digital phone service in Spokane recently....
I have Vonage at home and LOVE it, Im curious if Comcast is gonna get their undies in a wad since they are providing me bandwidth with which to use their competition's service.
Im wondering if they will tell me I cant use Vonage anymore, or if they can even legally do that.
anyone have any thoughts?
I have Vonage at home and LOVE it, Im curious if Comcast is gonna get their undies in a wad since they are providing me bandwidth with which to use their competition's service.
Im wondering if they will tell me I cant use Vonage anymore, or if they can even legally do that.
anyone have any thoughts?
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the comcast setup has more features than vonage. comcast has better safety features built in i think. vonage if you call 911 they will not be able to tell where it is coming from. comcast solved that.
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Thats not true......
911 calls know where Im calling from, Ive filled out the form tying my phone number to our address, it spells it out clearly on their site, The only way Comcast has "solved" it is by doing it for you, since they know the address your cable goes to probably.
Im a CURRENT customer of Vonage and am Very happy with them, If Comcast didnt have such great internet Id tell them to jump in a lake, their cable is too expensive, but all that aside, Im curious about, and my question is, whether or not they will start throwing a fit to their cable internet customers who are Vonage subscribers?
And BTW, your up early
911 calls know where Im calling from, Ive filled out the form tying my phone number to our address, it spells it out clearly on their site, The only way Comcast has "solved" it is by doing it for you, since they know the address your cable goes to probably.
Im a CURRENT customer of Vonage and am Very happy with them, If Comcast didnt have such great internet Id tell them to jump in a lake, their cable is too expensive, but all that aside, Im curious about, and my question is, whether or not they will start throwing a fit to their cable internet customers who are Vonage subscribers?
And BTW, your up early
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I've had absolutely terrible service since installing Vonage last September. I have spent hours, and hours with their customer service people running different ping, speed, and trace-route tests, and they can't fix the problems
I have had. Time Warner is coming today to install their VoIP, it's worth $10 / month to get a reliable, telephone service!!!
I have had. Time Warner is coming today to install their VoIP, it's worth $10 / month to get a reliable, telephone service!!!
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interesting, sorry to hear it, I simply set our router up to give the box bandwidth priority, and its been wonderful, call quality is good, service is great, price is right.
Anyhoo, back to my question......
Anyhoo, back to my question......
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I have comcast and use vonage. They have never said anything to me. When the comcast phone service orginally came to my area comcast even called trying to sell me the service and I said sorry I have vonage unless u can beat the $24.95 price I'm not interested.
The rep said sorry the digital comcast phone service is $39.95.. I was like sorry not interested.... I get the same service for $24.95.
The rep said sorry the digital comcast phone service is $39.95.. I was like sorry not interested.... I get the same service for $24.95.
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Comcast doesn't care what VOiP service you use. The difference is that Comcast VOiP runs on the Comcast network and is/will be priortized data. Unless it's illegal, against the TOS or causes problems on Comcast's network, Comcast doesn't care what you do with your connection.
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Im wondering if they will tell me I cant use Vonage anymore, or if they can even legally do that.
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Originally Posted by Icicle
I have Vonage at home and LOVE it, Im curious if Comcast is gonna get their undies in a wad since they are providing me bandwidth with which to use their competition's service.
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that traffic unless they look at where the packet is going and what is in the packet with a packet sniffer.
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One thing to remember with things like packet sniffers... you do not have a fundamental right to privacy in this country. So what you may consider a breach of privacy isn't unless there is a law or contract dealing with the specific issue.
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