Irresponsible Marketing!!!

tenchan4 · Jul 17, 2007

http://www.comcast.com/nintendo/

John Kricfalusi, the guy who made Ren & Stimpy, made a web commercial for Comcast, featuring the Nintendo DS. Funny stuff.

hanman · Jul 17, 2007

I lol'd...for real! makes me wish i didn't have comcast already!

VmprHntrD · Jul 17, 2007

That's funny, as you can get at least for a serious ad with forced catch-lines in it to make the point. Hell of a deal though giving up the free system as that's $120 and tax saved right there IF you were getting broadband already anyways.

DeepFriedAsian · Jul 18, 2007

Son of a-
My mom just ordered Comcast Triple Play like, 3 days ago. Dammit.

XD @ The ad, though.

Lazycus · Jul 18, 2007

Ah yes, where are George Liquor - American and Jimmy the Idiot Boy these days.

Is that Doraemon I see?

.TakaM · Jul 18, 2007

heheh, that was a pretty funny ad

I always hated ren and stimpy though, they had fuckin annoying sound effects for everything, blinking, expressions, falling over.. I always got a headache like 30 seconds into that show

ugly_rose · Jul 18, 2007

Ehh?

comcast said:
Comcast High-Speed Internet with PowerBoostTM

Way faster than DSL or dial-up
Now with PowerBoostTM, your fast connection gets even faster with up to 12 mbps of speed

Excuse my french, but what the heck are they talking about? My DSL is 24 mbps for crying out loud

FifthE1ement · Jul 18, 2007

QUOTE(ugly_rose @ Jul 18 2007 said:
Ehh?

comcast said:

Comcast High-Speed Internet with PowerBoostTM

Way faster than DSL or dial-up
Now with PowerBoostTM, your fast connection gets even faster with up to 12 mbps of speed

Excuse my french, but what the heck are they talking about? My DSL is 24 mbps for crying out loud

What DSL company do you have? 99% OF DSL subscribers are limited to 6MB/DOWN 512MB/UP via the largest provider: Bellsouth. I have both Comcast HSI and BellSouth FastAccess, in my home, and Comcast is way faster than DSL. I am on the 8MB/DOWN 768kbps/UP and we also have PowerBoost which makes my connection 16MB/DOWN 1MB/UP most of the time. However, we are soon getting Blast!, which is much faster and has 16MB/DOWN 1/2MB/UP normally!

QUOTE said:

If you currently do not subscribe to any Comcast Cable TV or Comcast Digital Phone services, you will have the following options for HSI available to you:

Economy: 384 kbps / 384 kbps : $39.95 ( not available for new subscription )
Performance Lite: 4000 kbps / 384 kbps : $42.95
Performance: 6000 kbps / 384 kbps : $59.95
Performance: 6000 kbps / 768 kbps : $59.95 ( select areas )
Performance Plus: 8000 kbps / 768 kbps : $67.95
Blast!: 16000 kbps / 1000 kbps : $67.95 ( select areas )
Blast!: 16000 kbps / 2000 kbps : $67.95 ( select areas )

If you currently subscribe to any Comcast Cable TV or Comcast Digital Phone services, the following HSI options are available to you:

Economy: 384 kbps / 384 kbps : $29.95 ( not available for new subscription )
Performance: 6000 kbps / 384 kbps : $42.95
Performance: 6000 kbps / 768 kbps : $42.95 ( select areas )
Performance Plus: 8000 kbps / 768 kbps : $52.95
Blast!: 16000 kbps / 1000 kbps : $52.95 ( select areas )
Blast!: 16000 kbps / 2000 kbps : $52.95 ( select areas )

*Add $3.00 to any tier if renting a modem from Comcast.

Click to expand...

That is the fastest home internet in the US, next to FIOS of course.

EDIT: And Comcast is now giving away a FREE DS with all new triple-play orders!
QUOTE

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For a limited time, new Comcast customers who order all three Triple Play products (Comcast Cable TV, Comcast Digital Voice, Comcast High-Speed Internet) on comcast.com and install all three products by 9/7/07, will receive a Nintendo DS ($129 value) by mail after install. Offer ends 8/10/07.

FifthE1ement

ugly_rose · Jul 18, 2007

I don't believe there is any internet service provider in Sweden that hasn't had 24 mpbs DSL available over at least the last three or four years. The lowest speed "broadband" (which can hardly be called broadband) is 0.25 mbps DSL, but I'm really unsure if there is any significant amount of people using that speed today.

Even wireless internet (over the 3G phone network) is faster today with speeds from 1-7.5~ mbps, and quite frankly not that much more expensive than the wired solution. Sometimes it's even cheaper.

If you don't live in a villa or other small house, or in the countryside, you're very likely to also have acces to the 100-1000 mbps city fibre optics network.

I can't show you much actual info from the providers themselves, however, as it is not very foreigner-friendly, meaning most of it is in Swedish. Some common providers, though, are Telia, Bredbandsbolaget/Telenor/Vodafone, Glocalnet and Tele2/Comviq.

ugly_rose · Jul 18, 2007

... I think I double posted...

*begs for mercy*

FifthE1ement · Jul 18, 2007

Sorry ugly_rose I can only speak for the USA. In the US many users are limited to very low speeds unless they want to pay huge amounts of money to the ISP's.

FifthE1ement

ugly_rose · Jul 18, 2007

Ahh yes. Lets hope the market opens up more then... for the sake of america

Have a look at the Glocalnet ISP though... they love making these kind stupid commercials:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d90tYaIa7xE

enarky · Jul 18, 2007

Anyone believing that he won't pay for this "free" Nintendo DS is incredibly naive. Well, *he* won't actually, but all other Comcast subscribers together will. A Company relying on such dubious marketing should be avoided at all cost.

moshii · Jul 18, 2007

QUOTE(ugly_rose @ Jul 18 2007 said:
I don't believe there is any internet service provider in Sweden that hasn't had 24 mpbs DSL available over at least the last three or four years. The lowest speed "broadband" (which can hardly be called broadband) is 0.25 mbps DSL, but I'm really unsure if there is any significant amount of people using that speed today.

You're ISP may be selling you a xx mbit "channel" but you'll never be able to use it. Every megabit of backbone connectivity an ISP has is oversold by tens of times.

QUOTEEven wireless internet (over the 3G phone network) is faster today with speeds from 1-7.5~ mbps, and quite frankly not that much more expensive than the wired solution. Sometimes it's even cheaper.

Those speeds would be HSPDA,... all wireless systems suffer from excessive protocol overheads. 802.11 has a protocol overhead of about 50%, combine that with the problem that TCP/IP because of it's falloff scheme only ever uses 75% of the available channel. Best to go for wired

WarmWoollySheep · Jul 18, 2007

John K is great!

HBK · Jul 18, 2007

Yep, here in Portugal minimum is 512KBps (for high speed, there still are some dial up users), and max currently is 24MBps. I have a 2MBps connection. Not the fastest, but it's quite good.

DarkMatt · Jul 18, 2007

Max in Aus is 24mbps down / 1mbps up DSL (which I'm on now). It's just starting to spread now - the previously fastest connection was cable @ 10mbps down / 128k up. Of course, we pay through the nose for it compared to everyone else, and get dodgy download limits, but it's not too bad.

ugly_rose · Jul 18, 2007

QUOTE(moshii @ Jul 18 2007 said:
QUOTE(ugly_rose @ Jul 18 2007 said:

I don't believe there is any internet service provider in Sweden that hasn't had 24 mpbs DSL available over at least the last three or four years. The lowest speed "broadband" (which can hardly be called broadband) is 0.25 mbps DSL, but I'm really unsure if there is any significant amount of people using that speed today.

You're ISP may be selling you a xx mbit "channel" but you'll never be able to use it. Every megabit of backbone connectivity an ISP has is oversold by tens of times.

QUOTE said:

Even wireless internet (over the 3G phone network) is faster today with speeds from 1-7.5~ mbps, and quite frankly not that much more expensive than the wired solution. Sometimes it's even cheaper.

Click to expand...

Those speeds would be HSPDA,... all wireless systems suffer from excessive protocol overheads. 802.11 has a protocol overhead of about 50%, combine that with the problem that TCP/IP because of it's falloff scheme only ever uses 75% of the available channel. Best to go for wired

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I hear you on the wireless bit. I have experienced what you say myself.

About selling me a particular channel, not really allowing me to reach near the promised speeds, is untrue however. ISP's having tried doing so before has gotten pretty beat up by their customers, having to pay them back + lower the monthly fee.

So to have a 24 mbps connection, you are required to have a modem capable of such speeds, for aforementioned reasons. The modems are usually given for free however if you decide to stick with the ISP for at least 12-18 months.

There are many nice non-biased applications out there, that can check your connection speed towards several different servers, seeing how well your connection delivers on the ISP's promise.

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