Comcast Makes Us Want To Scream

By vouchey in News on Apr 15, 2005 6:34PM

If you've got Comcast for your Internet connection, you've probably noticed lately an unbelievable fall-off in service. Many of Chicagoist's editorial staff use Comcast, and it's contributed to the lack of articles over the past two weeks. It's hard to work from your home office when you've got no Internet.

Surprisingly, this story has completely evaded the Chicago media. When power or phone service goes out, or (God forbid!) a television station goes off the air, it's big news. Yet nobody's talking about thousands of people losing their ties to the Electronic Ether. To find out what happened, Chicagoist had to check out Tech-friendly newspapers like the Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News.

Turns out these little outages affected seven million people nationwide. That's a lot of people.

So, Chicagoist is looking at some other broadband providers. We strongly recommend you checkout Broadband Reports and CNET to see what else is out there.