[mdlug] OT: Comcast rant

[Dwight Brown]

I work for comcast in Engineering....send me an email explaining the 
whole thing. <dw at maserator.com>

Dwight



Michael wrote:
> After the help I got from everyone on this list a few weeks ago I finally
> set up my home network and it has been great. Thanks to everyone.
> This regards trying to access my computer from the outside world. I finally
> go things together to have port forwarding from the router and life was
> great. I was able to ssh into my home computer, and finally through a nice
> tunnel was able to listen to the media at my house over a daap beacon. I was
> in heaven.
>
> It appears that Comcast didn't want to keep me happy. I no longer have
> access to my computer from outside. My ip address hasn't changed, nothing on
> the computer has changed. Even a traceroute to the ip address dies at a
> Comcast station in Southfield. After about 3 hours and at least one
> representive hanging up on me, Comcast finally opened a ticket, saying they
> will get back to me sometime soon (surprise still no callback), but also
> throwing in there that this is probably not anything they will fix.
>
> So beside complaining about Comcast, which is quickly becoming one of my
> favorite past times, I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for
> A.) getting around this restriction, B.) actually getting through to
> Comcast, that they are not providing me with full internet access.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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