The Renegade Geek

Here is the bottom line folks, from my 28 years of experience I have seen a lot of changes with the Internet online business's. We make do with what we can access or afford. Depending on where you live this will be your issue with any Internet company. No matter what you are a slave to these companies for their access points of origin. If you want to access any service you have to do the research first then a breakdown of which company has the best to offer, this far honestly hands down Comcast is the one service to enroll with.

The only problem with Comcast is their billing practices. Their billing online does not often reflect the same when you visit your local payment center at least this has been my experience with them. I always go to the location in my local area to pay my bill. Also every time your bundle gets closer to running out of a set fee call them and tell them you want to close your account. They will give you a new package deal because they do not want to loose a customer.

You may want to stop paying the high prices for the extra channels since Hulu and Netflix have most of the programming offers with their services, for less than the cost of their premium channels. Grab the basics and sign up for the Hulu and Netflix movie channels. This is a wonderful way to go with Comcast and cheaper as well.

So if you can afford Comcast services, you get what you pay for "Good Speed" fair service but high dollar per month. Watch out for their billing practices, it can be overwellming in fees you may not be expecting. They are never fixed payments, there is always one charge or another for something if your not on top of them. Their attitude to me it seems is our crap does not stink, all because of their speeds.

Now on to my worst part of this subject. "Clearwire" The best thing you can do with their equipment is keep them away from cell phones other computers, anything that will interfere with the signals has to be out of the way, you will also spend a lot of time resetting the modem and hubs as well as routers and other electrical components.

Be sure that you have at lest 3 bars, move the modem very slowly as to not play catch up with the signal. Due to their allowable bandwidth, you are limited for sure. There is never enough speed. We are hoping that Clearwire will improve their speeds as the coming days approach.

All in all you get what you pay for how true this is. Clearwire is a fair service in my humble opinion, the price is high for what you receive. Also you have to clean out the browsing data left behind and trailing cookies as well. Make sure software is updated and your there is plenty of memory and good hard drive space. the less your computer has to work the better. Use anti-virus software that just kicks back and does the job without a major popup or cleaning process going on all the time. I just stick to Microsoft Security Essentials that is all I need.

In closing there is a few things you can do to assist your computer when you need to be online to speed up your browsing process, use either FireFox or Google Chrome those browsers are optimized to load quicker the IE is. So try those and see what happens you may be surprised.

No I do not like Clearwire but I can afford that better than Comcast these days and times.

John