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buckweat420

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Dropping Comcast since my cable is unreliable and constantly delivers only 10% of the throughput I am paying for. I have tried everything, new modem, new cables, ETC. Tech states the area I live in just has bad cable service.

I had Verizon a few years back but had no problems with the service at all, only reason I left was they did not have anything higher then 768/128 at the time.

I was wondering if anyone has just a standard Verizon telephone box on the outside of their house? Any recommendations or suggestions before I start running a new phone cable from the box to inside my house?
 
there is nothing really to suggest. you can try to figure out how your house is wired. in an ideal situation you would want the wiring from the NID to connect directly to your DSL modem. You can do that by running a direct line. But your existing wiring is likely daisy chained to various phone outlets within your house. It may cause some signal loss depending on the number of outlets that are wired up. You can disconnect unused wiring but it will probably cause problems for someone down the road.
 
If you are planning to do phone service as well as DSL then just make that call and there really isn't much to be done. If you don't want phone at home just DSL call them and tell them you want dry-loop DSL setup (no PSTN connection) and they can take care of that for you, and you may pay a bit more for the setup (if they have to run cable etc) but your monthly bill is less.
 
What they said.

I ran a chunk of Cat5 from the phone box (just screwed it down under the terminals with the existing wires) to a new location inside. I don't have voice on the line, but I didn't want to mess with the existing wiring in case I decide to use VoIP in the future or something.

If you do want to do voice and DSL, you can run a dedicated line to your modem and put a single whole-house filter at the box to filter all your phones. The benefit is that all your phone lines work normally without having to mess with filters at each jack, but the downside is that you can't plug your modem into a different jack.
 
I'd troubleshoot your Comcast cable before downgrading to DSL. 10% of your speeds, disconnects....gotta be something basic like lines in the house or hosed splitters. Many of my clients are on Comcast internet...they're my favorite ISP to work with, and most problem free....and that's out of a pretty big list of ISPs that I commonly work with. Their speeds are crazy fast too compared to others.
 
As much as I hate Comcast's random network issues here every once and a while they've been fantastic about it, and I have to back up YeOldeStonecat here. If there is absolutely nothing you can do, then my next suggestion would be go with what C7J0yc3 or InvisiBill said depending on if you need voice or just internet.
 
I have had several technicians come out to check out my lines and every time I get told the same thing. Cable lines in my small town are just very very bad, it seems to bad they wont even dare offer high definition cable service. I have lots of channels on my TV that are very fuzzy and ghosting with other images. It seems to happen on lower channels, but it also affects my digital service making the sound cut out and the channel display blotchy(like when it rains really heavy when you have DirectTV).



I called and my service will be activated Friday. Verizon offers 7.1 and Comcast is charging me for 8Mbps when I only get 2Mbps or less most of the time.
 
I ended up getting a pretty good deal,

For $50 I got unlimited local and long distance calling with the 7.1/768 DSL package.
 
Finally got my new service installed and I am glad to report no issues currently. Thanks for all the feedback but I have tried everything but Comcast is still unable to provide me with reliable high speed internet.
 
Comcast business class available in your area? I just left the Home side for the Commercial side, and all I can say is WOW. I am paying for 22/5, but I bench at ~70/15.
 
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