naushika | (no subject)

I have internet! Sort of.. ?

The guy never showed up yesterday - when I contacted the cable company they were like "he was there, he hooked it up" and I was like uhh I was here all day, nobody showed up, and looking in the cable box I can see literally no cables plugged in. They were just like oh okay well someone will be there tomorrow from 3-5pm. *rolls eyes* I love being lied to! Chris decided last night to just go and plug in a cable and see what would happen, and it worked - our internet is working. But I don't know if it's ours? Is this illegal cable? I DON'T KNOW. Guess we'll see what happens when the guy shows up today. Y'know, if he does. This is the third appointment in a row I've made so my optimism isn't high!

We didn't get that hooked up until like 10pm last night so there wasn't time to do much but download Teen Wolf. :D I had to watch that and I don't regret it. I'm wicked behind on all my other tv though. I need to watch Shield aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. I've been reading some of the Shield-related news lately and it makes me sad. SO MUCH MEANNESS.

SO HOW ARE ALL OF YOU DOING? I'm so behind on everything, I'm sorryyyy. If you have any important things I missed please tell me about them! Or just talk to me. Whatever. :D

I'm glad to be back! *HUGS INTERNET*

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csichick_2

Is your cable company Comcast by any chance? That sounds like the sort of bullshit my mom's had with them.

naushika

No, Cox. :/ But I feel like pretty much all cable companies are equally detestable!

I've had a mostly pleasant experience with Time Warner. Well, except for the fact that I was without CBS for a month because of a contract dispute, but I'm pretty sure that one was actually CBS's fault.

timetobegin

no don't read shield related news!!!!

YAY INTERNETTTTTTTTTT

skieswideopen

So exciting having internet again!

But yeah, internet providers (and telephone providers and cable providers) mostly seem to suck when it comes to customer service.

They are all terrible! Pretty universally so. It's because there's so little competition, they can all be assholes because what are you gonna do, not have internet or tv or whatever? :/

Yeah, I blame it on lack of competition. The problem is, they need so much infrastructure for those services that massive competition is pretty much impossible.

Well Google is doing a new thing where they are laying down fiber and offering extremely cheap, high-speed internet. Unfortunately the infrastructure needed does make it a very slow thing. They're only in like 2 or 3 areas right now in some state very far from me. I'm hoping as the project picks up speed they will expand quicker but I'm not holding my breath for it getting here any time soon..