Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-11 Thread Brandon Ross
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Matt wrote: As far as networking problems, I think most folks on NANOG would agree that to run a stable network, the network needs to be designed and operated by a single organization. I guess it depends on your geographic definition of an organization.

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Austad, Jay
Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever dealt with. I think they are outsourced, they have to go by a script, and many of them probably hardly know what a computer even is. Once I called because of a problem on their network, and I told the person on the phone that

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 9:29 AM -0500 10/9/03, Austad, Jay wrote: Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever dealt with. I think they are outsourced, they have to go by a script, and many of them probably hardly know what a computer even is. Once I called because of a problem on their

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: At 9:29 AM -0500 10/9/03, Austad, Jay wrote: Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever dealt with. I think they are outsourced, they have to go by a script, and many of On the couple of occasions where I got

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Miles Fidelman writes on 10/9/2003 9:25 PM: Anybody know to what extent Comcast and the old MediaOne/ATTBI customer support organizations have been merged? I think all the cable infrastructure from ATTBI has migrated to comcast. And people on attbi got transitioned to comcast email addresses

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Kagan
: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:20 PM To: Miles Fidelman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finding clue at comcast.net Miles Fidelman writes on 10/9/2003 9:25 PM: Anybody know to what extent Comcast and the old MediaOne/ATTBI customer support organizations have been merged? I think all

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Sirius F. Crackhoe
-Original Message- From: Sirius F. Crackhoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:37 PM To: 'Howard C. Berkowitz' Comcast's Technical and Customer Support is outsourced to EDS and is based in the EDS call center in Hallifax. I believe they were also taking

Re: RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Alan Spicer
From: Austad, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/09 Thu AM 10:29:25 EDT To: 'Howard C. Berkowitz' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Finding clue at comcast.net Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever dealt with. I think they are outsourced

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Alan Spicer
- Original Message - From: Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: RE: Finding clue at comcast.net At 9:29 AM -0500 10/9/03, Austad, Jay wrote: Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
- Original Message - From: Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: RE: Finding clue at comcast.net At 9:29 AM -0500 10/9/03, Austad, Jay wrote: Comcast's phone support department is the *worst*, WORST, I've ever

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Eric Kagan wrote: I was informed legacy ATTBI setup is still different from the router / infrastructure side. (i.e. Old ATTBI has ping and ports blocked that native Comcast does not) That is true for the moment. We're in the process of rectifying that. -- Brandon

Re: RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Alan Spicer wrote: Now I'm not suggesting anyone lie ... or such a thing ... but say you called the local office on a cold sales call asking for the person that handles their data networking. As you work your way through that try to find out who is the Head Engineer(s).

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: *sigh* Y'know, I could live with it if I could even have a mailbox to which I could send detailed trouble reports, even if no one looked at them on the next day. While their routing seems to be fairly stable these days, there would be times I'd

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Matt
snip I wouldn't recommend that actually. The local folks do not have any control over the IP infrastructure, they only handle the HFC plant. Do you think that may have anything to do with the complaints cited here?

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Matt wrote: I wouldn't recommend that actually. The local folks do not have any control over the IP infrastructure, they only handle the HFC plant. Do you think that may have anything to do with the complaints cited here? Nope, most of the complaints here seem to be

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:40 PM -0400 10/9/03, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Matt wrote: I wouldn't recommend that actually. The local folks do not have any control over the IP infrastructure, they only handle the HFC plant. Do you think that may have anything to do with the complaints cited here?

Re: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Matt
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: At 10:40 PM -0400 10/9/03, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Matt wrote: I wouldn't recommend that actually. The local folks do not have any control over the IP infrastructure, they only handle the HFC plant. Do you think that may have anything to do