ohthankyouthankyouthankyou... cable modem back up!

[Yossarian]

It was down for the past 16 hours or so. I was freaking out. I think I may be addicted to teh intarweb!!

Now I must play BF1942 for a while.

 

[Eli]

I still have a modem in my computer for events like that.

Actually, I had to use it just the other day, cable was down for about an hour and a half.

 

[Yossarian]

do you have to pay for the dialup isp? i heard some broadband companies give you a dialup connection in case of outages, but Adelphia doesn't do that.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
do you have to pay for the dialup isp? i heard some broadband companies give you a dialup connection in case of outages, but Adelphia doesn't do that.

roadrunner does, unlimited dialup.

 

[Eli]

Oh yeah, forgot about that part.. Nope..

I use free juno.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
do you have to pay for the dialup isp? i heard some broadband companies give you a dialup connection in case of outages, but Adelphia doesn't do that.

Neither does Time Warner. I kept my modem in my box up until last year. My modem died on a Sunday (can't replace until Monday) and they said

"We'd be happy to open up a dialup account for you for $15 a month!"

I said

"You have gotten to be f***ing kidding me, right? :|

Yanked that modem out of the case in 2.5 seconds flat.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: PipBoy
do you have to pay for the dialup isp? i heard some broadband companies give you a dialup connection in case of outages, but Adelphia doesn't do that.

roadrunner does, unlimited dialup.

Baloney!! At least not in San Antonio they dont'. They wanted to charge me for it!

 

[Kadarin]

With my Speakeasy DSL connection, I never really got outages...

 

[MaxDSP]

16 hours?!?! Try 2+ weeks without a net connection at home...stupid SBC screwed up my DSL line activation order after I moved, tried to raise my rate to $34.95/mo, and said they had to lower my speed to 384, instead of the 768 I had before :|


Good thing theres only 2 more months left in the contract....then Im gonna try to ditch them for a Wide Open West 1.5 mbit cable connection

 

[Yossarian]

of course the other problem would be that I don't have a regular phone connection paid for, I only use a cell phone.

2 weeks, I would be a mess. I'd probably even go outside!

 

[oniq]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
16 hours?!?! Try 2+ weeks without a net connection at home...stupid SBC screwed up my DSL line activation order after I moved, tried to raise my rate to $34.95/mo, and said they had to lower my speed to 384, instead of the 768 I had before :|


Good thing theres only 2 more months left in the contract....then Im gonna try to ditch them for a Wide Open West 1.5 mbit cable connection

You should try getting a different tech when you call them, I got them to switch me from 384->768 after a couple of attempts.

 

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: PipBoy
do you have to pay for the dialup isp? i heard some broadband companies give you a dialup connection in case of outages, but Adelphia doesn't do that.

roadrunner does, unlimited dialup.

Baloney!! At least not in San Antonio they dont'. They wanted to charge me for it!

According to their website its free. In the future you will get 10 free hours, and charged $0.99 an hour overage...

http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_dial_access2_overview.html?topic=Dial+Access

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
It was down for the past 16 hours or so. I was freaking out. I think I may be addicted to teh intarweb!!

Now I must play BF1942 for a while.

What's your 1942 ID, PIP? I want to kill you.

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: oniq

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
16 hours?!?! Try 2+ weeks without a net connection at home...stupid SBC screwed up my DSL line activation order after I moved, tried to raise my rate to $34.95/mo, and said they had to lower my speed to 384, instead of the 768 I had before :|


Good thing theres only 2 more months left in the contract....then Im gonna try to ditch them for a Wide Open West 1.5 mbit cable connection

You should try getting a different tech when you call them, I got them to switch me from 384->768 after a couple of attempts.

I think the reason they took me down to 384 was because I was farther from the CO than I was before (I think Im somewhere around 13,000 feet). If they had only told me that, I really wouldnt have been too pissed, but it was the combination of the lowered speed, the 2 week delay, and the higher price that made it worse.

I told the guy all that, and he offered to take be back down to my regular rate of $29.99, which I was promised for at least a year when I signed up last year. Now that I think about it, I should be getting comped for the 2+ weeks I havent been able to use the connection