I miss Adelphia Cable.
Yes, they were in bankruptcy. And yes, their founders are repeatedly being anally raped in jail because they built golf courses with company money. But at least you could count on their internet connection being there 24 hours a day.
So what's Comcast's excuse? They bought my local cable system from what was left of Adelphia, and the level of service promptly went down the toilet.
Back in January their internet connection went down for two solid days. Then for the next few months it was mostly okay, but still subject to occasional brief outages lasting a few minutes.
Then last Sunday it went down and stayed down. It was understandable, since this was right about the time that massive windstorm hit here. It would eventually come back up Tuesday afternoon.
At any rate, when it was still down Monday morning, I actually went to the local Verizon store and bought a wireless card. It plugs into the USB port, so it will work with desktops as well as laptops.... Which is handy, since my laptop dates back to the late 90's and doesn't have a USB connection.
So why do I bring this up now? Because Comcast's worthless piece of crap internet service is down AGAIN! It was down this morning, and it's still down this evening. I'm sorely tempted to drop Comcast entirely and just toss $40 bucks every month out into the middle of the street. Either method would pretty much accomplish the same thing.
Yes, they were in bankruptcy. And yes, their founders are repeatedly being anally raped in jail because they built golf courses with company money. But at least you could count on their internet connection being there 24 hours a day.
So what's Comcast's excuse? They bought my local cable system from what was left of Adelphia, and the level of service promptly went down the toilet.
Back in January their internet connection went down for two solid days. Then for the next few months it was mostly okay, but still subject to occasional brief outages lasting a few minutes.
Then last Sunday it went down and stayed down. It was understandable, since this was right about the time that massive windstorm hit here. It would eventually come back up Tuesday afternoon.
At any rate, when it was still down Monday morning, I actually went to the local Verizon store and bought a wireless card. It plugs into the USB port, so it will work with desktops as well as laptops.... Which is handy, since my laptop dates back to the late 90's and doesn't have a USB connection.
So why do I bring this up now? Because Comcast's worthless piece of crap internet service is down AGAIN! It was down this morning, and it's still down this evening. I'm sorely tempted to drop Comcast entirely and just toss $40 bucks every month out into the middle of the street. Either method would pretty much accomplish the same thing.
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