If you live anywhere near Medford, OR (Serviced by Charter Communications) or probably any area served by Charter, stealing cable is a no go. They make very regular (bi weekly) drive bys and they are very through. They wave this magic wand around that makes funky noises and they can tell if you're pirating cable very easily. If you are, they cut your line. Every time I've tried, they cut me off within a couple weeks. They finally put a block on the stuff. I've yet to cancel cable, split the cable modem line, and get free analog cable but if it's possible here that would be kinda neat..
That's probably why Charter also charges you $10+ more a month if you do not have cable tv already. This covers the cost for the idiots/theives who do steal cable...
I use Charter. They just introduced a new tier. They have for $37.99 or so, you can get 768Kbps/128Kbps or for $50 or so, you can get 1.5MB/400Kbps. I think $50 or so is fair for now, but it sure seems like every couple months the price goes up..
.. and they could get away with it here because DSL sucks, and the least expensive DSL here from a 'local' provider (not counting Qwest w/ MSN) is around $75+ and that's not even 1MB down.
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This might sound hard to believe and I don't know if it's Charter Communications own tech support or it's contracted out, but here in the northwest (Medford, OR), their customer service/response time ROCKS. I called to up my speed. I called the local #, hit 1, hit 1, hit 2.. got a rep in like 2 minutes. I told her to give me the 1.5MB package, she said ok.. we waited about a minute, she said cycle the modem.. I did, I had a new package. I've also called to see why my mail doesn't work and they usually always tell you if there is an outage..
Either way, they are always nice so far.. although I haven't called to cancel yet, but that's because it's the only high speed joint in time and at this point, they've been nice..
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I'm not so sure about this. I signed up for AOL just to mess around for a few hours and that I did. After about 3 hours, I called to cancel my service. The lady on the other end said, 'Mr. Ryan, you've only had AOL for 3 hours, are you sure you don't want it?' I told her yes, I was sure I didn't want it. She asked why and I said, "It freezes my computer." She said, "Oh, well let's reboot and see if we can fix it." I said, "Mam, (more like hey bitch), I DO NOT WANT AOL." She said, "Ok, How about another 3 months free and you can decide if you like it?" Getting frustrated, I said, "Fine." I hung up.
2 months later (to make SURE I canceled while it was free..) I called to cancel service. The lady said, "Ok it's canceled." I was like, wow that was quick... and then I got a statement a few months later and AOL had been hitting it for the last 3 months I thought my service was canceled. I had to sign an affidavit to get the charges removed. On top of that, Visa issued me a new credit card #, you'd think that would stop it. Nope, if you've ever given a company access to your CC #, they can still hit it up. Whether it's legal or not is another question. Also, you'd think with a NEW CC #, they wouldn't be able to bill me, right? Wrong. They can. Good luck with this. I finally contacted AOL, Clout Visa Card, Better Buisness Beaureu, and the Oregon attorney general. Guess what I got then? Not one credit for all charges, but two! They actually credited me. AOL HATES the BBB and probably really hated my Attorney General who demanded a reason on why they did this to me. I would suggest *everyone* here contact your State AG and the BBB, it got me results in literally a week..
Lower than they should? I had 768 down, 128 up with Charter and I called that night to upgrade to 1.5MB/400up and I use that docsdiag (docsdiag.jar, do a search on Google) tool to check to see if the d/u bandwidth #'s were up, and they were. That's how I keep them in check..
They have those camera's here in Medford, OR. I have no problem with them for a simple reason. It DOES make a lot of people not run them. As it iis now (because they aren't up yet), people run red lights like crazy. Where the cams are, people are definately stopping now. Someone could get killed at some of these intersections for crossing the street when the light turns red..
There is a book at Barnes & Noble I believe titled Letters by Tom Nancy. He will write letters to say, The Ritz Hotel and then have outrageous requests and then puts the reply with his letter in a book. You should check it out, it's hilarious.
I recently went from Charter @ Home to Charter @ Pipeline. I had up to 3MB/s with @Home. Now that it's Charter, I get 'up to 500kilobits/s' and that's what they promise. Then somewhere else they say up too 1.5MB/s. I've yet to see anywhere near 1.5MB/s. I don't know if this is unique to Oregon or what not, but it sucks to say the least. Charter Pipeline seems to suck in general, I get disconnected completely atleast once a night, and every time I go back to using their DNS servers, I get killed off, so their DNS is fucked. On top of that, their DNS servers are on the same fscking class c. Lovely! Anyone else hate Charter?
It seems to me this whole trademark/copyright stuff is getting way way way way out of control and extremely out of hand.
I agree these copyright holders/trademark holders have legit claims to some extent, but lately it's getting silly. At the rate it's going, it's getting dangerous..
Atleast with my ISP, InternetCDS.com you can't get wireless unless you fail to qualify for DSL. On top of that, my ISP uses shoddy software combined with shitty hardware, so you end up getting 40 people on one port designed for 20 and time sharing doesn't know how to divvy that up, so everyone gets screwed.
The OTHER ISP here that offers wireless is Computer Country and they use frequency hopping. If you must get wireless, CHECK TO SEE IF THEY HAVE FREQUENCY HOPPING! If not, DON'T GET IT. I don't get more than 5kb/s on any download and I should be getting 250KB/s..
Anyway, I think wireless will grow as well because there is no need for a phone line and it is fairly reliable, when you have a decent ISP running it.
CNN has reported that Florida has certified Bush as the Winner, which of course means that he'll get the 25 electoral votes, and the presidency.
I actually beg to differ. He probably will get the electoral votes, however the elector's in the electoral college CAN choose to give them to Gore or divide it up so Bush and Gore split even..
Soo, it's not over until that's decided for sure, and of course we need to see how this folds out in court.
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Which has more holes? Internet Explorer or Swiss Cheese..
At one time, both!
If you live anywhere near Medford, OR (Serviced by Charter Communications) or probably any area served by Charter, stealing cable is a no go. They make very regular (bi weekly) drive bys and they are very through. They wave this magic wand around that makes funky noises and they can tell if you're pirating cable very easily. If you are, they cut your line. Every time I've tried, they cut me off within a couple weeks. They finally put a block on the stuff. I've yet to cancel cable, split the cable modem line, and get free analog cable but if it's possible here that would be kinda neat..
That's probably why Charter also charges you $10+ more a month if you do not have cable tv already. This covers the cost for the idiots/theives who do steal cable...
Well just sit and wait. Some of us on Charter were getting 3.5MB/s, then down to 768... so I think your days of 3MB down are severely numbered.
I use Charter. They just introduced a new tier. They have for $37.99 or so, you can get 768Kbps/128Kbps or for $50 or so, you can get 1.5MB/400Kbps. I think $50 or so is fair for now, but it sure seems like every couple months the price goes up..
.. and they could get away with it here because DSL sucks, and the least expensive DSL here from a 'local' provider (not counting Qwest w/ MSN) is around $75+ and that's not even 1MB down.
This might sound hard to believe and I don't know if it's Charter Communications own tech support or it's contracted out, but here in the northwest (Medford, OR), their customer service/response time ROCKS. I called to up my speed. I called the local #, hit 1, hit 1, hit 2.. got a rep in like 2 minutes. I told her to give me the 1.5MB package, she said ok.. we waited about a minute, she said cycle the modem.. I did, I had a new package. I've also called to see why my mail doesn't work and they usually always tell you if there is an outage..
Either way, they are always nice so far.. although I haven't called to cancel yet, but that's because it's the only high speed joint in time and at this point, they've been nice..
I'm not so sure about this. I signed up for AOL just to mess around for a few hours and that I did. After about 3 hours, I called to cancel my service. The lady on the other end said, 'Mr. Ryan, you've only had AOL for 3 hours, are you sure you don't want it?' I told her yes, I was sure I didn't want it. She asked why and I said, "It freezes my computer." She said, "Oh, well let's reboot and see if we can fix it." I said, "Mam, (more like hey bitch), I DO NOT WANT AOL." She said, "Ok, How about another 3 months free and you can decide if you like it?" Getting frustrated, I said, "Fine." I hung up.
2 months later (to make SURE I canceled while it was free..) I called to cancel service. The lady said, "Ok it's canceled." I was like, wow that was quick... and then I got a statement a few months later and AOL had been hitting it for the last 3 months I thought my service was canceled. I had to sign an affidavit to get the charges removed. On top of that, Visa issued me a new credit card #, you'd think that would stop it. Nope, if you've ever given a company access to your CC #, they can still hit it up. Whether it's legal or not is another question. Also, you'd think with a NEW CC #, they wouldn't be able to bill me, right? Wrong. They can. Good luck with this. I finally contacted AOL, Clout Visa Card, Better Buisness Beaureu, and the Oregon attorney general. Guess what I got then? Not one credit for all charges, but two! They actually credited me. AOL HATES the BBB and probably really hated my Attorney General who demanded a reason on why they did this to me. I would suggest *everyone* here contact your State AG and the BBB, it got me results in literally a week..
Lower than they should? I had 768 down, 128 up with Charter and I called that night to upgrade to 1.5MB/400up and I use that docsdiag (docsdiag.jar, do a search on Google) tool to check to see if the d/u bandwidth #'s were up, and they were. That's how I keep them in check..
They have those camera's here in Medford, OR. I have no problem with them for a simple reason. It DOES make a lot of people not run them. As it iis now (because they aren't up yet), people run red lights like crazy. Where the cams are, people are definately stopping now. Someone could get killed at some of these intersections for crossing the street when the light turns red..
There is a book at Barnes & Noble I believe titled Letters by Tom Nancy. He will write letters to say, The Ritz Hotel and then have outrageous requests and then puts the reply with his letter in a book. You should check it out, it's hilarious.
I think O'Reilly needs to take this guy on. See how long he can last..
They also have no reverse DNS.
I recently went from Charter @ Home to Charter @ Pipeline. I had up to 3MB/s with @Home. Now that it's Charter, I get 'up to 500kilobits/s' and that's what they promise. Then somewhere else they say up too 1.5MB/s. I've yet to see anywhere near 1.5MB/s. I don't know if this is unique to Oregon or what not, but it sucks to say the least. Charter Pipeline seems to suck in general, I get disconnected completely atleast once a night, and every time I go back to using their DNS servers, I get killed off, so their DNS is fucked. On top of that, their DNS servers are on the same fscking class c. Lovely! Anyone else hate Charter?
It's about time the Afghan's can make their own decisions in peace. I hope they can form a democratic type government and live in peace. :-)
Who cares! As expensive as Intel is over AMD now, that chip will probably be around the cost of a new car or something..
...bi-directional language support (for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew), multi-monitor (Xinerama and multi-screen) support..
Good thing Arabic is there, that might be needed to crack these terrorist manifests.
... which is bullshit. Once you own it, you shouldn't need to keep paying on it.
It seems to me this whole trademark/copyright stuff is getting way way way way out of control and extremely out of hand. I agree these copyright holders/trademark holders have legit claims to some extent, but lately it's getting silly. At the rate it's going, it's getting dangerous..
I absolutely agree, I have two way satalitte and it sucks. Everything above said by JAK is true.. get DSL..
... you could also think of it this way. A very good RPG type game is like a very well written mystery book.
One is interactive, one is not so interactive but still conveys the same points.
Atleast with my ISP, InternetCDS.com you can't get wireless unless you fail to qualify for DSL. On top of that, my ISP uses shoddy software combined with shitty hardware, so you end up getting 40 people on one port designed for 20 and time sharing doesn't know how to divvy that up, so everyone gets screwed.
The OTHER ISP here that offers wireless is Computer Country and they use frequency hopping. If you must get wireless, CHECK TO SEE IF THEY HAVE FREQUENCY HOPPING! If not, DON'T GET IT. I don't get more than 5kb/s on any download and I should be getting 250KB/s..
Anyway, I think wireless will grow as well because there is no need for a phone line and it is fairly reliable, when you have a decent ISP running it.
CNN has reported that Florida has certified Bush as the Winner, which of course means that he'll get the 25 electoral votes, and the presidency. I actually beg to differ. He probably will get the electoral votes, however the elector's in the electoral college CAN choose to give them to Gore or divide it up so Bush and Gore split even.. Soo, it's not over until that's decided for sure, and of course we need to see how this folds out in court.
They have plenty of productivity software, ie. Star Office.
Lack of fonts? Ha.
Popular games? Ok possibly..
Lack of drive support? Such as...?
Hopefully we never /..health. :
How about a desktop Transmeta as well!