No — this was not composed on my phone
~ Edited for profanity ~
- My internet service was restored yesterday, after a two day outage
- At 9:30 this morning a snowplow came down our street
– breaking the temporary cable that has been in the street since summer
– disrupting our service for the 4th time since January 15th - My wife was working from home
– so I took her to her office so she could continue working - I continued on, grocery shopping before heading home
- Arriving home at noon, I saw a new cable, connected and lying in the street
- Internet service was restored
- Our morning call to customer support bypassed all voice menus
– something unheard of
– apparently our account has been flagged as a priority
~ a perk for suffering four snowplow-induced outages? - Two work orders were placed
– a repair to restore our service — Surprise! Completed this morning!
– an order to bury the cable under the street - That cable has been there since last summer
- There’s now a foot of snow — That cable ain’t goin’ nowhere
- We anticipate more outages before spring weather arrives
- And probably after
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“edited for profanity” LOL
brrr sounds bitter cold
I complain when it drops below 40 at night
and only gets up to 65 in the daylight
oh well still glad to hear you are connected again
HANG IN THERE ashes decorate the faithful Xian today
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but not me I am sheltering at home and writing more like I posted here (wordpress) yesterday
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We had -7ºF the last two mornings, so above zero this morning was a nice change. We’re currently at 19º, with 20s predicted through the weekend & possibly 40 early next week.
No rolling blackouts here, but southwest & western MO have seen them. I was on the phone with a T-Mobile rep in Overland Park, KS (Kansas City area) yesterday when they had a power blackout during our session.
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I hesitated to “like” this. What the H*** is wrong with them!? They can’t put up a few temp poles so the cable goes high over the street until the cable can be buried in spring? Sorry to hear about this chronic issue that is rooted in no common sense at all by the company.
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I’d switch providers, but I think Century Link would just piggyback on the “existing” line. Or not. Their available download rate is nothing compared to Mediacom’s. They do advertise fiber optic, but not here.
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I’m at the mercy of Hughesnet satellite. Every time it snows more than a little I have to go out there and clear it with a really long stick (it’s on the roof.) I’m also limited to 25gb/month before it goes slow. 50 “bonus” gb from 2a-8a. Have you heard of Starlink, a satellite internet from Elon Musk? My son told me about it. I checked out the web page. Right now it’s in the development stage. I hope it’s better than the mess everyone seems to have to deal with one way or another nowadays.
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I heard on NPR that Elon’s satellite service is being offered in Kansas.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968457180/how-a-project-to-get-humans-to-mars-could-solve-the-rural-internet-problem
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I can relate to what the guy is saying on the audio clip. I love living here but the internet limitations wear after awhile. I like the name Musk gives his satellites: starlings 🙂
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Grrrrr…
Bright side; we were above zero, too, for the 1st time in a week.
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Heat wave!!
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OOF!
Sorry, Ken 😦
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My ongoing saga.
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Reading this and the prior replies has my gratitude quotient rising. I’m w/o water now but I do have electricity (thus heat); and my cable internet is all underground, out of snowplow range … though one begins to question the durability of all sources of essentials as more and more prove vulnerable to weather and human oversights. My instincts in purchasing a house outside CityOfAustin utilities back in 1986 has proven over the years wise beyond any then-awareness – again this week as large portions of Austin have been multi days w/o electricity.
A winter to remember.
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I know of people (doubters) who say, “Global warming or climate change. Which is it? Make up your mind!”
Well guess what. One and the same.
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Arghh! I feel for you Ken!
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Thanks, Bob.
I switched phone plans to one that lets me use my phone as a hotspot. Not enough data for prolonged streaming, etc., but enough to get Bonnie through a day of office work, in a pinch. The new SIM card should be here on Friday.
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Years ago I called my local internet provider to complain about their poor service, and the person I talked to told me that if I was dissatisfied to take my business elsewhere. So I did. 🙂
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Corporate arrogance can be infuriating. I hope they appreciate that you took their advice. 🙂
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They no longer exist. Ha!
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I didn’t want to “like” this. What a pain for you and your wife. I’m sorry. And the cold and snow–almost like you’re back in NY. Stay warm. I hope it all gets fixed.
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Thanks, Merril. This is highly unusual weather for here, but then it’s been crazy all over the country. At least the snow has been a powder, with 2-3 inches each day since Sunday. Easy enough to push it with the shovel.
Back in NY, that would have been a 12 inch, one-day “dump” – and wet at that – so every shovel scoop was like throwing five pounds. As for cable, I was in an neighborhood developed in the 1950s. When cable came in they strung the wires overhead. Sometimes, heavy snow would make the wire droop. I lived next to a grade school. Over the years, maybe a half-dozen times, a delivery truck would catch that drooping wire and we’d lose cable TV & internet.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya!
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Powdery snow is so much nicer. We keep getting that wet kind–with extra ice. It does sound like a conspiracy. Maybe an X-File. 😏
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Infuriating. We can no longer, as a country, even do the simplest and most obvious things. Our entire grid is very vulnerable. Perhaps those back-to-the-landers are not so crazy. It makes me think of the Little House book “The Long Winter”. (K)
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Infuriating, yes. Long past “inconvenient.”
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Big brother heard your threat to move to another IT company.
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🤣
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