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Fun with the cable company
wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:39:39 -0400, hk wrote: Our cable provider is having some sort of trouble today, so I had to find and hook up my silly old modem in order to send off a 44-page manuscript. Anyway, I called the cable co to report the outage and while I was waiting for the gal on the line to get an answer to "why," she was starting to try to sell me on VOIP. I started laughing and said, "If i had VOIP, I wouldn't be able to make this call..." She didn't get it. I am not sure why anyone would want to lose the reliability of good old POTS phone service. In all of our hurricanes we have lost cable many times, power a few times but the phone always works. The mere fact that Sprint buried everything when they did the fiber upgrade in the late 80s probably accounts for most of it but phone systems are also battery powered. I have not seen the DSL go down for any extended time either. Cable data was always the first thing to go and the last thing to come back in any kind of disturbance. I have Comcast TV service on a hair trigger right now and the first time they screw me up the cable will be laying in the right of way. The "all digital conversion" we keep hearing about will do it for sure. If I need a box for everything, I might as well have satellite for less money. I find I am watching more internet TV though. I got a P4 XP pro machine several months ago for $45 from GearXS and it is connected to the big screen. How is it connected? |
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