Just wait until you hear what happened to me today >.<
June 11th, 2008June 11th, 2008. I day that will remain in my mind for the rest of the summer. I day where I learned just how low I can fall, how bad it is to not have Digital Cable and Internet. This is a reality I have never dealt with until today. I learned some things that will change me forever… maybe, and discovered that our cable company, Time Warner, are Nazis. It all started yesterday night a little before 2 AM. The internet was disconnecting yesterday more often than ever. I blamed it on my computer because it is extremely old. Back to yesterday night, my websites and MSN conversations had disconnected from the internet. I was tired and I didn’t want to deal with fixing it, so I went to bed. When I woke I saw the lovely line of six green dots lit up on the cable modem telling me that I was connected to the internet. Everything was fun for about five minutes until I was disconnected again. I unplugged the modem and plugged it back in to see if I would get any response, three lights, not good enough. I waited about fifteen minutes to see if it would connect, it didn’t. I took a shower, and an hour later there was still no response. I called my mom who basically said there was nothing she could do. The cable company is coming to our house the weekend after vacation. That wasn’t good enough for me. The cable company and my mom thought that the problem was in the wires that go under our house. The other option was a faulty modem. I asked my sister to take me to the Time Warner customer service place about ten minutes away and when we got there we found out that the location had moved to the mall which was about half an hour away =\. I tried to forget about the disaster as I hung out with my sister for a while, but when I got back home I was greeted to the same disconnection. Now I guess I should mention that two nights ago there was a small storm and durring that storm our cable box for Digital TV was disconnected. Since the cable that run under our house give “weak signal” the digital box is unable to find a signal that orientates it. Thus I couldn’t watch cable channels in the living room or get on the internet when I got home. I got in touch with my mom who had been on the phone with Time Warner all day. Most people didn’t know how to help her but the last one said that we can take the cable modem and the cable box to the Time Warner location by the mall and trade them in. That way we’ll have new appliances and everything will work. My mom wasn’t going to be able to take me down there for a few hours so I watched dvds and slept some. After unplugging everything we went and traded in our things. When we got home the television didn’t work but the internet gave us this weird message talking about registering new hardware. Thus my mother and I were on the phone with the nicest man from Time Warner. He told us many things. He had an scheduled visit for the cable to come tomorrow to check the tv bu someone randomly canceled that. Apparently many other people had their visits canceled for seemingly no reason. A mystery visit came up on the computer for a day while we’re on vacation. He also saw our visit to rewire the house after we come back. After about two hours on the phone with this man the internet was back up (how I get here). While I was typing this he told us that he thinks the problem is not our computer, the wires under our house, bad luck, or a hellmouth, that it was really the telephone line on our street. He saw activity that proved other people nearby were having the same problem. He changed the the visit for the day while we’re gone to a trip to fix the pole. He said everything should be fixed by the time we get home. That was long V__V
-Ryan
PS - My mom’s friend might give us a her old computer that doesn’t have much on it.
