Man, I've been dicking with Comcast bullshit for the last 2 hours. We've had trouble with the DTAs for about 2 years now. I've thought the whole time that it was just a bad splitter/too many splitters/or bad wire under the house. But that doesn't make a lot of sense because as basically everything from 1-63 doesn't work at all, random shit way in the 500-600s work just fine. So no local stations, but things like Biology and History 2, plus all the Comcast music stations. I don't fucking get it. And their tiers for cable are such bullshit. Basic is about 10 stations, all local, that they charge you for, which I don't think they can even do. The next step up is about 40, but leaves out most of the networks people actually watch (TNT/TBS/TLC/all cable news except FOX NEWS/all sports networks). The next step up is 140, filled with a bunch of stations I've never even heard of that are 500-600, which I didn't even know they went up to.
There is a sports package, which includes the sports networks and the networks that people actually watch, but you can't just switch to it if you have a bundle and it ends up being more expensive that way. The bill has gone up nearly $100 in a year with no added services or promotions running out. A few extra every month. Sometimes a $10 jump. Really boned here. UVerse isn't offered in my neighborhood (although it is in other places in town, but is even more dogshit). FIOS isn't anywhere in the area.