Fun with the cable company
 

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.



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http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym

Fun with the cable company
 

On 3/31/10 12:35 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:39:39 -0400,
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.

We have the cable digital TV, but I don't see myself giving up telco
POTS for "cablephone."

I haven't the patience to wade through the satellite TV offers.


--
http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym

Fun with the cable company
 

On Mar 31, 12:45*pm, hk wrote:
On 3/31/10 12:35 PM, wrote:





On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:39:39 -0400,
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.

We have the cable digital TV, but I don't see myself giving up telco
POTS for "cablephone."

I haven't the patience to wade through the satellite TV offers.

--http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You must be the laziest fat slob in the world.

Fun with the cable company
 

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:35:39 -0400, wrote:

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.

Who is your broadband provider?

Fun with the cable company
 

In article ,
says...

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.

What package do you watch tv on, or where do you watch it. I got the
Toshiba with the I5 chip and it can play on my tv too..

Scotty

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Fun with the cable company
 

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.

Recently you were touting your 20 Mb/sec DSL. Did you just switch to
cable for the Internet?

Fun with the cable company
 

On 3/31/10 3:55 PM, D.Duck wrote:
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.

Recently you were touting your 20 Mb/sec DSL. Did you just switch to
cable for the Internet?


I haven't had DSL for maybe eight or nine years, quacky.

--
http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym

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?

Fun with the cable company
 

"Loogypicker" wrote in message
...
On Mar 31, 12:45 pm, hk wrote:
On 3/31/10 12:35 PM, wrote:





On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:39:39 -0400,
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.

We have the cable digital TV, but I don't see myself giving up telco
POTS for "cablephone."

I haven't the patience to wade through the satellite TV offers.

--http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You must be the laziest fat slob in the world.

I find it humorous that he has to make up a story about his cable service,
to make up a story about a 44 page manuscript. Unless he never sleeps, he
has no time to write a manuscript of any size... he's too busy posting on
usenet. lol Add yet another lie to the long list....

--Mike

Fun with the cable company
 

On 3/31/2010 3:55 PM, D.Duck wrote:
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.

Recently you were touting your 20 Mb/sec DSL. Did you just switch to
cable for the Internet?

You dumb ****. My post had nothing to do with DSL or Cable, it had
everything to do with my 44 page manuscript. Why won't any of you guys
ask me about my manuscript.

Damn, I can lead you idiots to water, but can't make you dumb ****s drink.