…only better!
Waitin’ for the cable guy, my heart pining away for what he is bringing for me. I can hardly wait. I know it is going to be sooo good. I have been on his schedule for over a week now and he is finally coming to my house; it’s my turn for service. Bring it on big boy!
I’m talking about high speed cable Internet, of course. If it is all of what people who have it say it is, I know I’m going to be creamin in my jeans. No more blackouts, disconnects, slow transfer, kids screaming about the crappy internet. Here is the background on my Kids computer:
I’ve had worst case scenario DSL for quite a while, getting 128K/bps up and way less than 384 K/bits down. People with low cost DSL and cable get three times that bandwidth and those who pay a bit more get Megabit throughput up and down. SWBATTCingular… acknowledge the problem but wouldn’t even consider lowering my monthly rate even though I was paying a premium already for static IP addresses.
But a couple of months ago the service went totally to hell. It would basically go off every night around 6:30. Sevenish sometimes. But sure as hell it goes off every night. When you are only home in the evening that is the equivalent of having no Internet. The kids are upset–at me no less, thus the not-so-subtle message above– that their day long gaming has been interrupted while I am basically unplugged from the Big Brain for up to twelve hours. Talk about kicking heroine and nicotine being difficult…
Oh well, I did call SWBATTCingular… and gave them the opportunity to address the problem but a man named Gilbert–or was Gilbert with the Internet host company? Anyway they both sounded like their name probably wasn’t Gilbert and he said there wasn’t anything wrong and I would have to call back when the problem was actually occurring. Damn inconvenient.
Kinda like how it is damn inconvenient for me to be sitting on my ass here at the house waiting on the cable guy to fit me in to his busy schedule sometime between 8:30 and noon instead of sitting on my ass in Texas City where they pay me a decent hourly rate to do so. The catch is that I have to go to Texas City to do basically the same thing I do here.
Like I told the nice lady who took my order for high-speed cable internet this is going to be an easy installation. Since we had cable service here at some point in the past the coax cable is already run up to the house right at the spot where I need it shoved inside. Shove the cable through, plug in the cable modem, verify connectivity, give me my IP address, and thank you very much. Wam bam thank you ma’am.
I incorrectly figured they would knock out a couple of easy ones first thing but more likely they save the easy ones for the heat of the day. No sense being in an attack at noon when you can be standing in the A/C bullshitting with an old school technology hack.
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