Time Warner Cable is Starting to Piss Me Off.

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Hey, Gordon, welcome to 5 years ago.
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Yeah, but yesterday it was 15 years ago, so that's progress.
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Ok, speed test says 37/6. It's better, but still.

Sigh.
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It's spring, the season of rolling internet blackouts in my berg courtesy of Com-FUCK YOU BITCH WE HAVE A REGIONAL MONOPOLY-cast.
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Guess who has internet speeds that still suck harder than Bunny Lebowski.
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We pay for 20/200, and routinely get 22/220, so it's working well here.
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Last night, my DVR stops working in the middle of a fucking show with no warning. I call up the assholes at FUCK YOU We Have A City-Wide Monopoly (aka Xfinity/Comcast) who inform me I have to get a new cable box to fix my problem. I exchange the shitty one for a new one the next day. Hook it up and activate it. The DVR is completely blank. No recorded shows, no scheduled recordings. They are 100% untransferrable unless you do it yourself. Wow, I wonder why everyone in the country hates this fucking corporation and the clueless shitheads that run it.

To recap: I wanted to fix my DVR and Comcast pointed me in a direction which ERASED it.
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Malcolm wrote:The DVR is completely blank. No recorded shows, no scheduled recordings.
Duh.
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Ah, more rolling internet blackouts courtesy of comcast/xfinity/FUCK YOU. This one lasted an hour.
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I hear there have been shortages of Internet lately. There certainly was at our MN hotel.
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Wow. Really?
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I live less than 1000 feet from a Century Link service center. No, of course I can't get internet service from them. Ramsey and Burnsville Counties are the absolute north-south limits of civilization in the state, respectively.
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This entire week has brought back memories of local dialup circa 1998.
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On demand service straight up crashes in the middle of a flick and refuses to restart. Nowhere near the first time. Great job xfinity. Keep sucking balls and bribing city officials. I hope you all fucking die of slow and painful sepsis.
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The past week, more than 50% of the time when I switch on my machine, I have no internet connection. Fucking awesome.
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I had to reboot my router the other day for that problem, like two days after I asked that parallel routing question.
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I reboot mine damn near every day, almost as a matter of course now.
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Mine does that on it's own. Usually when I'm playing Overwatch.
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Knock on wood, but I've had hands-off operation for about 2 years, now. That's why it was noteworthy that I had to reboot it the other day.
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I actually recently put in a device that force-reboots the modem and router at 3AM every day, hoping that would maybe solve whatever is causing it to reboot at random times in the evening. Nope.
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Just as I thought these walking clusterfucks were getting better -- no internet all morning and counting.
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