I’m happy to say that the technician from Comcast was out to the house this morning, shortly before 8:00 AM, to install the cable for Comcast Business. The truck says Xfinity; it’s owned by Comcast. Xfinity handles all the residential cable installations.
In total, it took the technician about two hours to complete the installation. He had to add a phone plate to the room and run an additional cable. Before he left, he mentioned some issues with the phone line, and a technician would be coming out later today. It turns out there were a total of two separate technicians that came to troubleshoot the issue. Unfortunately, since the problem was at the telephone pole, they did not go into the house. However, I will follow up with my contact to ensure that everything is working smoothly. It seems to be doing fine. After all, I’m using Comcast Business to write this current post.
How’s the speed? Judge for yourself. Fios is available in our part of town; however, it isn’t- sighs in our small rural community, perhaps someday. However, for my new job, the upload and download speed is more than adequate! My company requires that I be directly connected to the router, and that’s how I’ve connected my laptop. I used an ethernet cable.
A former co-worker’s husband is also working remotely and uses Comcast Business for work. She stated that he had had nothing but good things to say about his experience. The only time the cable has gone out was when there was a terrible accident in their area. Just like them, we also live in a remote location.
Years ago, I had Comcast residential; however, I canceled the service and swapped to Verizon because the service was awful. Their internet service was down lot. From my research, it appears that they’ve made significant improvements, and since my new job requires that I have a cable connection and not DLS as we have with Verizon, it’s what prompted me to start researching my options. Interestingly enough, it led me back to Comcast. Who would have thunk?
In other news
My office furniture arrived yesterday, and so this was the last hurdle that I had to do on my end. I followed up with the Talent Agent for where I’ll be working. When I talked to “A” last week, she mentioned that I could start on 7/12/21. I asked what was going on, and she told me to follow up with her once everything had been completed. It’ll be nice to be back working again. I’ve been off for almost two weeks, and while I’ve enjoyed my time spending time with my daughter and just being in a different space. I must admit that I’m ready to start my new job; however, if I have to wait until my official start date of 7/19/21, well, that’s fine also. I’m stoked that I’ll be working remotely.