I Might Be Back
Five days, 120 hours, no warning, and the blithering idiots sent me e-mail during the middle of this mess asking if I would like to buy some more services from them.
It was a system “upgrade”!!!! They blew up DSL for a major portion of Florida for over 4 days. I got special treatment because they moved my line to a different device, but the record wasn’t updated to reflect the move because the servers crashed during the software upgrade.
I have to go shovel out my in basket after not picking up e-mail for 5 days!!!
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Whew…I was worried.
.-= last blog ..Is the Greyhound Station on Carrillo Street closing? =-.
I was going to send you an e-mail, but I’m still shoveling through the spam… actually my filters deal with real spam, this a flood of pseudo-spam from Amazon et al.
This is probably a record for a major provider.
i srsly considered jumping into the car and driving over there to look for you. i figured it shouldn’t take too long to find the house with 2 [gazillion] cats in the yard in a town of what, 200 or 300?
i know it’s not any fun for you, but i’m sure happy that your absence was only an isp problem. welcome back to the real world.
So this DSL provider uses tin cans and string to provide service?
I love the “competition” we get here. You go with AT&T or you go with Comcast or you go with satellite (which sucks). That’s “competition”. Yeah right.
The cats were holed up, so they wouldn’t have been much help, I’m in the phone book.
Well, Badtux, they upgraded from tin peach cans, to used Pepsi, and cotton to nylon string. There has been no speed increase. I seriously thinking of satellite because of what I do, which is basically text and small graphics with minimal multimedia stuff, and nothing truly real time. With my choice called CenturyLINK & Cox Cable, satellite is looking more reliable.
they have phone books there?
They don’t have any service, but four different companies print phone books for this area. They end up in my recycling bin as soon as they hit the front step.