For the First Time in 6½ Years.

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I called tech support. Set a new record for me though 🙂


Turns out my ISP got bought out by a larger company. So all of a sudden, my service stopped. After two days of trying everything I knew. (You never realize how much life sucks without the internet until you don't have it :brokenheart: ). Anyway, got my new UName\PWord.


I must admit though, even in 1000 years, I could not have solved this myself.

 

[jadinolf]

You must feel soooo dirty.

 

[fs5]

:Q you used ½

 

[FoBoT]

i have captured the ½ and will never lose it

 

[Cobalt]

I almost called Comcast today. Got home and the internet wasn't working. I tried everything, restoring the spyware I just removed, resetting modem, using winsock fix, etc, etc. Turns out that the culprit was XP SP2 that I installed yesterday. Not installing that pos again. Auto Updates - off!

 

[spazo]

I called customer support a couple days ago but only because Frances was being naughty and disabled all the cable in my area...and I was too curious as to when I could get back online...

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I called tech support. Set a new record for me though 🙂


Turns out my ISP got bought out by a larger company. So all of a sudden, my service stopped. After two days of trying everything I knew. (You never realize how much life sucks without the internet until you don't have it :brokenheart: ). Anyway, got my new UName\PWord.


I must admit though, even in 1000 years, I could not have solved this myself.

Insight Broadband?

 

[OverVolt]

I had to call my ISP before, for speed problems.

Not like im going to tweak the signal and caps from my end.

 

[johnjbruin]

Shame on you - you would have solved it in 1001 years. 😉

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: cobalt
I almost called Comcast today. Got home and the internet wasn't working. I tried everything, restoring the spyware I just removed, resetting modem, using winsock fix, etc, etc. Turns out that the culprit was XP SP2 that I installed yesterday. Not installing that pos again. Auto Updates - off!

the internet wasn't working? CNN doesn't show anything. Anyone heard anything about this?

 

[xcript]

:[/b]pancake;

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I called tech support. Set a new record for me though 🙂


Turns out my ISP got bought out by a larger company. So all of a sudden, my service stopped. After two days of trying everything I knew. (You never realize how much life sucks without the internet until you don't have it :brokenheart: ). Anyway, got my new UName\PWord.


I must admit though, even in 1000 years, I could not have solved this myself.

Insight Broadband?

Correct

On the bright side, my upload speed has doubled!

 

[Cobalt]

Originally posted by: Yzzim

Originally posted by: cobalt
I almost called Comcast today. Got home and the internet wasn't working. I tried everything, restoring the spyware I just removed, resetting modem, using winsock fix, etc, etc. Turns out that the culprit was XP SP2 that I installed yesterday. Not installing that pos again. Auto Updates - off!

the internet wasn't working? CNN doesn't show anything. Anyone heard anything about this?

It was very odd. IE wouldn't work, Steam would still connect to the internet and show me server stats but when I tried to connect to a server, my computer would freeze up. Mercora would sign on once or twice every-other time I restarted. So I finally uninstalled SP2 when I was out of ideas, and lo and behold. It works.

 

[Epoman]

Originally posted by: xcript
:[/b]pancake;

On a bunny?

oh wait he died. 🙁

 

[BatmanNate]

I wish my upload speed was doubled. 🙁

 

[Pakky]

Bah!

-Pak

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: Yzzim

Originally posted by: cobalt
I almost called Comcast today. Got home and the internet wasn't working. I tried everything, restoring the spyware I just removed, resetting modem, using winsock fix, etc, etc. Turns out that the culprit was XP SP2 that I installed yesterday. Not installing that pos again. Auto Updates - off!

the internet wasn't working? CNN doesn't show anything. Anyone heard anything about this?

It was very odd. IE wouldn't work, Steam would still connect to the internet and show me server stats but when I tried to connect to a server, my computer would freeze up. Mercora would sign on once or twice every-other time I restarted. So I finally uninstalled SP2 when I was out of ideas, and lo and behold. It works.

/watches joke fly right over cobalt's head

 

[Pepsi90919]

"UName" and "PWord" ? Go outside of your house immediately and stop posting.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
"UName" and "PWord" ? Go outside of your house immediately and stop posting.

I tried that, but that big yellowish white circle in the sky hurt my eyes too much. 😀

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: jadinolf
You must feel soooo dirty.

haha yeah probably filthy.. naughty dirty

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I called tech support. Set a new record for me though 🙂


Turns out my ISP got bought out by a larger company. So all of a sudden, my service stopped. After two days of trying everything I knew. (You never realize how much life sucks without the internet until you don't have it :brokenheart: ). Anyway, got my new UName\PWord.


I must admit though, even in 1000 years, I could not have solved this myself.

Insight Broadband?

Correct

On the bright side, my upload speed has doubled!

Mine too.

I'm a little upset that they're offering new customers a 29.99 rate to sign up, but my speed is definitely better.