The great disconnect

[greatbearmd]

For the last 4 days I have been laboring through cable internet slowdowns and stoppages that essentially ground me to a halt. The last entries and comments I have made on LJ have been made courtesy of my old standby dialup connection using my ancient Compaq laptop. The phone lines here have deteriorated to the point where all I can manage is a 9600

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[md_mancub]

I ordered FiOS the other day.

I feel horribly guilty about it; I've been a faithful Speakeasy DSL customer for years. But, the FiOS deal is hard to pass up: More than twice the speed I'm getting now (15 Mbs/2 Mbs vs 6 Mbs/768 kbs) for less than half the cost. *sigh*

Anyway, my install date is in about 10 days. I'll let you know how it goes.

[ciddyguy]

Oh how I know about internet connection woes. Been there, done that, but with dialup, bad service from AOL and later a local ISP and I think a modem crapping out (a 28.8 jobbie in an old 486 PC). This was of course back in the late 90's mind you.

I currently have up to 5G's of DSL for $26 a month for the next year which is an upgrade to my previous connection speed of 256K.

Oh, the modem I use is from a company called Actiontec that Qwest sells. Works fine so far.

[le_lapin]

I had been under the impression that all your connection problems had been solved late last year. I remember you posted about a female technician, apparently very sympathetic as well as efficient...

[beastbriskett]

Hope your forced intenet fast is over soon!
Lookin' forward to your take on the puddin'.