This is just stupid
Of course the dsl connection went down again. Why not? It’s the weekend, and it’s raining. God forbid anything should work through such awful conditions. For this, and to save what amounts to a few pennies, I dropped cable? I might just swallow my pride, pay what I owe Brighthouse, and go back on Roadrunner. I never use the telephone except to call tech support people anyway — the rest of the time my number seems to be the sole property of poll groups and people wanting to sell time shares.
I set another appointment with yet another tech person. This time I refused to take off any more work; I told them I’d be here after 5:30 and they’d better be here to meet me by 6pm. With my luck he’ll probably be here early (the latest slot is 4pm to 6pm) and I’ll find another flyer hanging from my doorknob. That’s when I’ll have the pleasure of informing them that I’m going back to cable, and cancelling my phone account. I might as well go cell — everyone else has. (Where I’m going to get the money for all of the above I have no idea.)
Update: dsl’s back on. Let’s see how long this lasts. I’ll use it when I can, because I only get so many hours of dialup per month.
You near Winter Park and on Sprint (Now Embarq! - as they tell you every two seconds on the tech support hold…)?
Cape Coral was flaky all day yesterday and part of today, noticed they added ‘Winter Park area’ on the tech line in the afternoon yesterday. I could connect sometimes, couldn’t connect sometimes… was bouncing like a little rubber ball.
OTOH - my DSL (and phone, obviously) stayed UP through every hurricane and tropical storm that has hit so far - I was hurricane central for the whole street after Charlie (all the cell phones went pfft when the towers came down).
Not that it helped much having DSL after the hurricanes - since I didn’t have any more electric than my cheap UPS had stored - and what was in my laptop battery.
Comment by Kathy K - June 24, 2006 6:22 pm
Sob sob — yeah, I’m in Winter Park. Or as I should probably start spelling it, “Winter Parq.”
Comment by andrea - June 24, 2006 8:13 pm