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Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 12:49 AM

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No internet access - MDU rewiring needed but nothing is done

Hi,
I'm having an extremely frustrating experience with setting up Xfinity Internet.
I've been an xfinity customer for several years now. I moved to a new apartment as a tenant at the end of August 2022. I tried to get my service transferred from my previous apartment, using the app I was told I would have to have a technician come over to do the installation and that self-install wasn't possible.
A first technician came (Tuesday 8/30 I believe), we went around the apartment and saw that there was no coax outlet in the apartment to connect the modem to. The technician saw that in other apartments below the outlet was in a small storage room and nothing was in mine. The technician left saying I would need to have wiring to be done (by Comcast presumably), but it seemed that he didn't make any request or send any ticket to Comcast. I called the following day to know what was the status and go on with the process, and the agent on the phone told me that the technician didn't do the request so I would have to have a new technician coming over and do it. So I scheduled a new appointment a bit frustrated by the inaction of the previous technician. I also had the building manager come take a look in the apartment in case he knew the outlet could be in case we missed it but he saw that there was indeed no outlet. The second technician came the following day, I explained the situation, he did a quick tour around the apartment and saw that there was no outlet. I told him I was told I would have a cable to be installed and the request made to Comcast. I waited a few days, still nothing seemed to happen, no follow-up, no phone calls, no emails, nothing from Comcast. After calling again and complaining  to agents on the phone they told me that I would have to schedule a new appointment for a technician to come over and see the installation and schedule the work which would happen in a second time. The next time (3rd appointment) an actual Comcast employee came over, apparently the previous technicians were contractors, I explained the situation to him. He had a look at the building box (I had the building manager show it to him) and he said he would make the request. I waited another few days, still nothing happened, I had to call Comcast several times to know what was happening, I secured another appointment and I made sure the agent on the phone understood that I wanted to proceed with the cable installation and not another pointless visit of my apartment. The appointment was scheduled on a Friday morning (8am-10am on 9/23), the 4th technician came over (at 9:45am), I was pretty angry given the circumstances, it was another Comcast employee who couldn't do anything himself, I told him the whole story and the complete lack of follow-up and professionalism from Comcast, he felt sorry for me, he told me I need to have an MDU rewire schedule to install a cable, he took the contact of the building manager, I showed him (again) the building box where all the cables are, I took his name, his supervisor's name and their phone number to be able to follow up. He made the request for an MDU rewire in front of me and told me that someone would call me (on the same day) to start the process. I didn't get any call that day, and even in the next few days. I called the following week and was told that there was no open request for an MDU rewire. Apparently there was one dating from 9/13 (around the time the 3rd technician came) but it was closed (for some reason), and from the 9/23 no request, nothing!
What is happening? 4 technicians, 4 pointless appointments, tens of phone calls and still nothing, what kind of a customer service is this?

Visitor

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4 Messages

3 years ago

They are giving you the work around so you call a electrician to run the wire for you. So basically you have to foot the bill. Or make ur land lord pay for it one way or another 

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110.2K Messages

3 years ago

Concern moved here to the Customer Service help section for greater exposure to actual Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance.

Official Employee

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553 Messages

3 years ago

Hello @user_b7d69a, thanks for reaching out for help on our forums! This is definitely not the kind of experience w want you to have. I would be devastated as well with multiple appointments with no proper resolution. You've reached the right team of experts, and we can certainly assist with your installation concern.

 

In order to get started can you please send us a private message to Xfinity Support with your full name and full address by clicking the chat icon in the top right?

Gold Problem Solver

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26.4K Messages

3 years ago

"send us a private message to Xfinity Support" means, from any forums.xfinity.com page:

  • Click "Sign In" if that prompt is visible  

  • Click the "Direct Messaging" icon above or https://forums.xfinity.com/direct-messaging  

  • On the DM page click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon 

  • The "To:" line prompts you to "Type the name of a person" but don't do that. It won't work.

      Instead, type Xfinity Support there. As you are typing a drop-down list appears.

  • Select "Xfinity Support" from the list. An "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line.

  • Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window

  • Press Enter or tap the > icon to send it

See https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/email/cant-create-a-new-email-address/605e52b726aa974d63032d02?commentId=606107ea738c7f46a02b830e for an example.

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Visitor

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3 Messages

3 years ago

I sent the information via private message

Visitor

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3 Messages

3 years ago

Update:

2 days ago my landlord called Comcast to get this issue escalated (and a notification was sent to 3 different supervisors iirc) he specifically asked Comcast to prioritize this issue (since it's been going on for 4 weeks without any end in sight) and that someone call us the day after to do a simple check-in (even if solution is not entirely figured out). Of course nobody called, so he called again yesterday. He was told on the phone that a technician would come today to do the installation. He was told they would sure come from 12pm to 7pm and ideally from 1pm-3pm. My landlord also asked someone to call me at 2pm and 4pm to get an update on the technician's arrival, the agent on the phone agreed and made a note telling us someone would call us. No one called me today from Comcast. It's past 7pm now and no one came, without any notification. Basically Comcast agents are lying outright to us, this is so unprofessional.

I've never seen such an abysmal customer service.

Comcast cannot be trusted, they say they're working on the tickets in the background and it takes time to set things up because it involves multiple teams... and then calling 1 week later you discover that nothing has been done, tickets have been closed etc... 

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Visitor

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15 Messages

3 years ago

@user_b7d69a I'm in the middle of a similar (though slightly different) experience. I've had three visits from Comcast technicians to try to install internet, and three times as many phone calls with customer service in between. They still haven't installed internet (which I rely on, since I work from home) and now, despite having guaranteed me on the phone and listing my address as serviceable on their website, say it will cost me $74,000 to have internet connected to my home. 

I see that they told you to direct message them. They've done that to me too, and then stopped responding the second I showed them screenshots of my messages with Xfinity customer service agents in which the employees promised me that my address was serviceable. 

Good luck. I wish I could say I was optimistic about either of our outcomes. 

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