VoIP Blogging > Brown Minutes: More amusing fiction from undertrained Comcast Support folks
[Signal to Noise] Due to recent service problems, her eMac running Mac OS X 10.4 is no long able to get online. Though Comcast had previously sent a technician to her place to set up everything on her Mac, a support rep tonight told her:
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[Irwinlazar.com] Irwin Lazar's "Real-Time" Blog: VoIP Customer Support & Comcast Woes: Thank you to my colleague Dan Golding for pointing out that Apple Mac OS X comes with a built in DNS BIND server (thanks to its BSD UNIX underpinnings). All I needed to do was to fire up the server and point my DNS lookups to my own machine to get around Comcast's issues.
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[Aboutvoip.org] - About VoIP: The good news is that my pc2phone calls arenow incredibly improved, due to my new computer setup, which Idiscussed yesterday in the post VoIP Call Quality Improvement Tips.Also good news, if you've downloaded a new version of Skype, you getseveral free minutes of SkypeOut so that you can test the quality.Since I can take advantage of the current free SkypeOut promo in Canadaand the US, it doesn't matter to me. But if you live elsewhere and havenot upgraded, you might want to.
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