Comments | trinityvixen: Ain't that always the way?

trinityvixen

Ain't that always the way?

Sep 28, 2009 13:10

Time Warner Cable can blow me.

( If they didn't have a monopoly, they'd have been out of business before the internet age. )

people are going to die, this means war!, don't talk to me

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oblvndrgn September 28 2009, 21:46:29 UTC

There are "competitors." You can get DirecTV or Verizon DSL but no cable, so they're not technically considered a monopoly. I thought Cablevision was out there, but it looks like they do Jersey and LI and do their best to ignore the actual city as much as humanly possible.

Is Verizon FiOS available where you are? I'd drop cable for it in a heartbeat if I could get it where I am now.

trinityvixen September 29 2009, 14:44:04 UTC

The options, as are listed below are all sub-optimal. It sounds funny to defend Time Warner after all this bullshit, but they have a monopoly. Which means they're the most effective service in our area. Satellite is impractical, and the internet is not as reliable on a day-to-day basis as cable. (Having had satellite at my parents' place, I know how easy it is for a rainy day to ruin your service. Literally: storms can knock the signal right out.)

As far as I know, Fios is not yet available, so there's no high-speed cable service besides Time Warner in our area. I'd also sooner gnaw through the wall and fix the cables myself than return to DSL. We have...history.

Long and short of it: the American system for providing services like this SUCKS BALLS.

chuckro September 28 2009, 22:36:39 UTC

Can you get Earthlink? I could when I lived in Brooklyn, but that was also five years ago.

At least this give you time to sort through all of your new mp3s, emulators and cartoons, right?

moonlightalice September 29 2009, 03:40:50 UTC

Earthlink actually just rents the cable from Time Warner, so while you pay your bills to them, if you have any actual issues you still have to go through Time Warner. (I had them in my last apartment.)

Verizon DSL is, IMHO, even WORSE than Time Warner. If you can believe it. FIOS isn't in my neighborhood and I doubt it will soon--both TV and I live in ghetto neighborhoods.

trinityvixen September 29 2009, 14:46:21 UTC

I actually begin that process some last night. I wanted to dive into the emulators, but I was burning CDs and didn't want to mess around while that was going on. Good decision, too, as my computer power cord was being even more finnicky than its usual and just about everytime I took it to a new outlet, it stopped working. So I got to spend 40 minutes on the phone with Dell a) trying to get a new one and b) refusing to buy another battery. (I don't use it to travel, and even if I did, having a battery life of 2 hours means nothing to me--if I were to use a laptop outside the house, I'd want it for longer than that, and I'd be on AC power.)

Oh the tribulations of the modern age!

cbreakr October 2 2009, 17:49:37 UTC

Our entire building lost cable and internet from TW for a week and a half, just ending yesterday. Hundreds of apartments, and they send two guys out to look after a week.

trinityvixen October 2 2009, 17:51:31 UTC

I half wonder if the multiple trucks I've suddenly been seeing over the past week are indicative of a larger problem. Not that they would tell me, though. I still haven't resolved what it is that went wrong or if said problem actually has been corrected or if we're running on a patch or what.

Time Warner sucks, man, is what. I feel your pain.