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DSL Installation Fail
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an example of fine Qwest workmanship. In our business park, they just installed a DSL connection for our neighbors, for which we share an exterior utility space. They left: a DSL modem stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural gas meters in some of the driest air of the year. They also left it plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank, with network cables running around the building, through snowbanks, coupled and protected by zip-lock baggies, and into our neighbors office. Not to mention the hack-job of patching the phone cable directly into the demarcation box. And if you're wondering — I was told upon calling them that this is not their problem, and I need to contact my primary phone service provider."
Yeah, right, samzenpus is usually full of HYPERBOLE and crap. I fully expect this comment won't be posted because it's critical of a moderator. How on earth do you not know that it wasn't the USPS (United States Postal System that we all hate) that didn't leave it there? Actually, myself and many of my friends here in Florida have been TRYING really hard to get the RIDICULOUS BrightHouse/Comcast cable modem prices down here in Florida. $47.95 a month for 10mbps internet? And $32.95 a month for ONLY 1mbps speed? You get what you deserve. There is NO competition since the US federal government combined ATT and Verison, we all know that. We are all paying the price now, literally.