from tech, to on-site tech, to modems, to routing problems, etc.
Basically "turd on a stick".
extremely well.
cash-customers as possible (no matter what the service), then
eventually gets things worked out.
No plug here, I don't even get cable (or DSL) where I am.
Here are some numbers for where I live right now (direct from the source):
- Crockett CA has not yet even been scheduled for the wiring and hardware
years.
- My route is thru the pinole node, which services crockett, hercules,
pinole, and a few other small towns.
- Cable TV hardware handles thousands of users per node, this is what we all
households per node.
- without that hardware upgrade, I am sharing my internet with anywhere up
to 5000 people at a time.
sites), but thousands of times as many people sharing the line
Yep, overloaded lines can be a huge problem where your "neighborhood"
shares your 1.5M internet connection. Get a few people doing something
and you are screwed.
Your better alternative is to stick with analog or look for DSL. I know
Telocity is everywhere east of the Mississippi, and only in California
west of the miss...
--
>Out of the dozen or so times I've called Rogers to complain..... Only twice
>did
>the person on the other end of the line speak English as a first language.
>WTF
>do these companies hire ppl for telephone support with heavy accents!!!!
>Martyn_D
Eldred
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Martyn
> >Heh and on a side note..
> >Out of the dozen or so times I've called Rogers to complain..... Only twice
> >did
> >the person on the other end of the line speak English as a first language.
> >WTF
> >do these companies hire ppl for telephone support with heavy accents!!!!
> >Martyn_D
> Careful, Martyn - someone will flame you for ***ing about someone's
> accent...<g>
> Eldred
> --
> Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
> Homepage - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~epickett
> GPL hcp. +70.45
> Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you
> with experience...
> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.
<snip>
Hah! A lot of us are still waiting to have *any* sort of cable - TV or
otherwise. From what I can fathom, my hometown in the UK (which is
fairly prosperous, on the whole) has no chance of cable for the
forseeable future, and no chance of xDSL before 2002 at the *very*
earliest. It's 56k or nowt here for quite a while yet.
--
David. (GPLRank handicap: +19.68)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
Since cable is a shared resource, I imagine I will have a similar
experience, where the download speeds gradually fall off as more folks get
online. Then again, where I live most of the people don't even have teeth,
let alone computers, so I may not have much to worry about. That combined
with the fact that I do most of my online activities between midnight and
3am should get me decent speeds.
~daxe
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