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My modern interconnected life
Mar. 2nd, 2011 10:46 amMy ComCast service has been flaky for a while now. Ok, flaky is relative. In my case, it means I'll lose service without warning for a few minutes at a time. This happens not every day, but it feels like it. Every once in a rare while, like right now, service will go away for far longer than several minutes at a time. Let's put it this way: AT&T gives me a more reliable connection to the internet.
(Obviously, I'm not updating my LJ via ComCast broadband service right now...)
Anyway, today is apparently the last straw because I've signed up for FiOS service. My upstairs neighbors are already on FiOS and they don't find it flaky so I hope I won't either. Also, as it turns out, FiOS is slightly cheaper (although it comes with a 1 year commitment).
I realize that not having broadband access at home is very much a First World Problem(tm). However, last time I lost access for long time, it really wasn't that big a deal. I called ComCast who ended up replacing the cable going from the house to the pole outside. That actually gave me reliable service for a little while. This time, I have more data in the cloud and so not having broadband access on my computer is actually kind of troublesome. (The data in the cloud is mostly backups, but I don't want to be without my backups.) And, I don't want to make calling ComCast to replace the cable a regular thing.
The big surprise for me is I ordered today and the installation date they offered me was this Friday. I hadn't expected it to be so soon. They've already set up much of the infrastructure thanks to my upstairs neighbors. That has to help. Also, they really want people to sign up. (In that case though, why make me block off the whole day waiting for the installation tech to show up? Also, 4 hour installation. Yikes...)
(Obviously, I'm not updating my LJ via ComCast broadband service right now...)
Anyway, today is apparently the last straw because I've signed up for FiOS service. My upstairs neighbors are already on FiOS and they don't find it flaky so I hope I won't either. Also, as it turns out, FiOS is slightly cheaper (although it comes with a 1 year commitment).
I realize that not having broadband access at home is very much a First World Problem(tm). However, last time I lost access for long time, it really wasn't that big a deal. I called ComCast who ended up replacing the cable going from the house to the pole outside. That actually gave me reliable service for a little while. This time, I have more data in the cloud and so not having broadband access on my computer is actually kind of troublesome. (The data in the cloud is mostly backups, but I don't want to be without my backups.) And, I don't want to make calling ComCast to replace the cable a regular thing.
The big surprise for me is I ordered today and the installation date they offered me was this Friday. I hadn't expected it to be so soon. They've already set up much of the infrastructure thanks to my upstairs neighbors. That has to help. Also, they really want people to sign up. (In that case though, why make me block off the whole day waiting for the installation tech to show up? Also, 4 hour installation. Yikes...)
