04/18/06 03:10 - ID#23836

adelphia

No offense mrmike, but-

WTF is up with adelphia! My cable bill is like $140/mo. That is for ONE person.
Granted, I like my tv, and I choose to pay that much. But still. For that much money, I feel like they should fly to my house on golden carpets and make sure my service is fast and pristine at all times.
I love my tivo. I have no idea what time/channel ANYTHING is on anymore- I totally rely on tivo, and haven't watched "live" tv in ages. So I will come home from a crappy day at work all excited to watch lost or whatever, and I lean back and hit the remote only to find- an hour of blank black screen recorded. (or even worse- two hours of QVC when I tried to save the Amazing Race premier for timika). Because the cable went out without my knowing it. And stays out til I reset it. This happens maybe once a week. That's a LOT.
And today all of the sudden it went out. I lost a post. I lost some emails. Some downloads. Lost my phone service. Had to reboot cable modem/ wireless router/ voip adapter/tivo/ cable boxes like 5 times for stuff to come back. But seriously- no tv, no internet, no phone- what do they expect me to do with myself?? Read? Go outside?! Who are they kidding?!

So aggravating!!!

mrmike writes at 01:51:20 04/19/06 - Comment #6604: Thanks everybody - Some of the decision making does make think of that commerical where the one guy is surrounded by the office of monkeys. I do have some cache on the internet side of things. If you have trouble with it, I might be able to yank some strings for peeps.

leetee writes at 11:30:51 04/18/06 - Comment #6602: I feel for ya, (e:Jenks)! We have adelphia dvr service and we use it sooo much. Thank goodness (KNOCK WOOD!), we don't have much probs with it. Ours tend to lean more on the spotty internet service.

Poor (e:Mrmike)... don't worry, i won't hold you responsible for the place you work. Even if you get a job after the take over!

ajay writes at 11:28:41 04/18/06 - Comment #6600: No worries, Mike. Most of us are mature enough to separate the individual from the company. I felt like ranting about Adelphia, and it wasn't directed at you at all.

metalpeter writes at 10:42:02 04/18/06 - Comment #6596: I don't have a Tivo or Adelphia DVR or their internet service so I can't comment on them. But luckly My service has been preaty good. Granted some times the indemand service hasn't worked for some reason and everyonce in a whiel a digital chanel will get those weird digital glitchs that are strang but my service is usaly preaty good. they do have competetion in Direct TV and a couple other satellite companies but not everyone can have a dish where they live. Sorry that you have gotton bad service and have had problems. It sucks that when it goes out you lose everything.

mrmike writes at 08:44:41 04/18/06 - Comment #6590: On the up or down side, it isn't gonna be in existence much longer. If I hear the lowdown on what prices are going to be like after I get sold for scrap I'll make some noise. The powers that be are working on how to force roadrunner onto the area. I respect you all too much to regurgitate the company line about costs and crap. Bash all you want. I can't do anything about the costs other than say if I didn't work here (for the moment)I wouldn't have it.

On the other hand, I got a funny feeling I'll be the least popular guy in the room at any estrip gathering. Can you say social leper?

ajay writes at 07:54:42 04/18/06 - Comment #6588: No offense too, Mike, but Adelphia is a total ripoff. They can charge so much for internet service because they are a monopoly.

I was paying $55/mo for just internet access. The rates actually went _up_ over time, which is unthinkable in the computer world, where prices for goods and services go _down_ over time. There's a bandwidth glut today, and Adelphia continues to charge so much for access.

Here in NorCal I'm paying $25 for DSL. Heck, you can get DSL for $15/mo. And Google/Earthlink are going to be offering free WiFi to all of SanFran.

Seriously: Adelphia needs competition. But thanks to your corrupt politicians, they will never face competition.

mrdt writes at 07:03:39 04/18/06 - Comment #6586: my cable is about the same, maybe a little more with the hd channels, which half of don't come in. with dvr when they change a show time I usually end up missing that week, which is kinda aggrevating cause the appentice relies on elimination from week to week. besides the simpsons and the family guy I don't watch regular tv.
and how come it records repeats???

deeglam writes at 03:46:49 04/18/06 - Comment #6574: man, that shit happens to me too....i pay a small fortune for my cable, and my screen went totally blank the other day after a long shitty day...and all I wanted to do was watch some good television. is that too much to ask? apparently. I agree with your comments...and I feel your pain!

mrmike writes at 03:24:08 04/18/06 - Comment #6571: None taken. This place does more to make people think that monkeys are in charge than anyplace I've ever been. I do have an "in" in tech support that you're welcome to take advantage of while the company continues to take advantage of me.

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