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I have been speaking to three (so far) different Comcast people over the past three days about this. Each time I get a seemingly different response.   For example:   "I took some time looking into the health history in your area and it seems that while there have consistently been different issues (mostly plant-related), we have also been continuously sending teams out to repair each issue. Right now it looks like our teams are trying to identify and repair frequency issues."   Followed by this from a different person:   "Looking into your area I see strong signals, as well as your equipment seems to be running at optimal conditions."   The first person wanted me to wait until some "planned maintenance" was completed on Jan 25 before going any further, while the second person wanted to send a tech out to me immediately. The second person apparently didn't even read the chain of previous messages before replying because he was assuming my signal-related issues (which are new) were somehow being caused by weather outages (which have been happening for years). The two problems are actually not related at all.   The same thing happens when I call on the phone. Nobody seems to know the history of the problems, and the answers they give are all over the place. And at the end of the day, nothing gets fixed.   But they all know how to apologize! Yes, they are very good at that. Almost every response begins with something like this:   "I truly apologize for the inconvenience and miscommunication."   "I absolutely understand your frustration with this."   "We truly appreciate your patience"   This is part of why it's so frustrating dealing with Comcast customer support. Can't get a straight answer. Can't even get consistent information. And worst of all, can't get my problem fixed.   If Comcast wasn't a monopoly in my area, I would have switched to someone else long ago. This is ridiculous. I'm paying way too much for this subpar service.   ... View more

As requested I sent a private message 2 days ago. Still waiting for a reply...   ... View more

4 days since you escalated this, and still no word from Xfinity.   I do appreciate the attempt, but this is what I have come to expect. I have been escalated on the phone too, with promises of a call back or an email, and I never hear another word. I always end up having to call back and then explain the entire situation again from the beginning because apparently they do not attach any notes to my account like they say they do. Very, very frustrating.   ... View more

Any idea when or how I might be contacted? I haven't heard anything yet.   ... View more

Yes, I know. I said I have had techs out to the house but they cannot do as you say unless the problem is happening at the exact time they are here. When they are here, things are running smoothly, thus they think nothing is wrong.   It's the same thing with the cable going out in my neighborhood during a moderate rain storm. They can tell when I call that there is a problem ("Yes, there is an outage affecting customers in your area."), but by the time the tech arrives (days later) the storm is over and everything is working, thus they think nothing is wrong. At least they offer to give me a bill credit for the day every time it happens.   The last tech that was here told me the upstream power level of 57 on my DVR was fine, which I'm pretty sure is not true. Sounds awfully high to me. And that was without the splitter.   The upstream levels on my X1 modem/router also seem to be on the high side (52-53) but I don't notice any internet problems (unless it's raining and the whole neighborhood goes down.)   Anyway, thanks for letting me know my recording is actually a cloud copy. That makes sense. It's close enough to watching live...a few seconds behind my rooftop OTA (which is always the case anyway) but a few seconds ahead of my brother's YouTube TV streaming, so I'm fine with it in these cases.   Would be nice to get a solution from Xfinity, but I gave up on that long ago. Not sure how I can get a tech out here at the exact moment the error code problem is occurring. And they know about the storm outages (multiple people in my neighborhood report it every time) but they never do anything. Guess we're just supposed to live with it.   ... View more

Hmmm, interesting. So when I'm watching something like channel 1007 (the local ABC affiliate), the buffer works because that's just a "mirror" of channel 187 so I'm watching via tuner even though I'm on the 1000+ channel. But a channel like 1329 (Pac-12) which doesn't have a lower channel mirror, then I'm just streaming and there's no buffer. Sound about right?   And yeah, I know I could just record it. I do that sometimes for shows I'm watching live. But sports is so ingrained in my head to watch live that I usually don't think to record it. 🙂   ... View more