Cox Communications

[skibum1111]

Here's something interesting. One of my friends lived in springfield ma for a while, his connection started out awesome, gradually slowed down, tv picture went to crap. Comcast (or comcrap, depending on how long I have been on hold...) tried to communicate with his modem, no go. Sent a tech out, told him the entire house needed to be rewired, his problem to fix. My friend told the tech to check the signal where it came into the house, crappy signal. Turned out to be squirrels running acrosss the cable, finally wore through the insulation and started pulling the cable apart.

[imtheoneandonlyD]

Originally Posted by skibum1111

Here's something interesting. One of my friends lived in springfield ma for a while, his connection started out awesome, gradually slowed down, tv picture went to crap. Comcast (or comcrap, depending on how long I have been on hold...) tried to communicate with his modem, no go. Sent a tech out, told him the entire house needed to be rewired, his problem to fix. My friend told the tech to check the signal where it came into the house, crappy signal. Turned out to be squirrels running acrosss the cable, finally wore through the insulation and started pulling the cable apart.

lol, Tech Guy: Oops, i guess its our problem to fix now.

[Ultimate X]

well id tell you to switch your service but they're all crap

my sbc dsl everytime i try and update my service to 3.0mbit they never bother to call me back tellim me my line cant handle it and they're switching me back atleast now im gettin around 200kb/s for my max down

they all suck plain and simple and unless you got someone inside to hook you up

[JackGivens]

Originally Posted by Jet-Lee

Mike1224:
I love Vonage. ALL my family is in the 559 area code in Cali, and I'm in Arkansas. They don't get a lot of long distance time on their phones, so for $5 I setup a remote number in the 559 area, so since they get unlimited local calls, it costs them nothing to call me.

That's the best thing about VoIP, getting to save a ton of money yourself and save money for family and firends that all live in one area. I've done the same thing you have with SunRocket though instead of Vonage. works great.

[Jet-Lee]

Yeah, my line was getting waaay too much.

too much WHAT?!

They put oo many splitters in my line giving my modem too much, cut it down to 2 splitters, and all's good.

TOO MUCH WHAT?!!

Eh, it's all good now.

[Ztrain]

How can you call 911 on Vonage?

[Jet-Lee]

Vonage has a 911 service that routes the call to the correct 911 center based on the address you gave them for the phone location.

[corning_d3]

We've had Coxsucker Comm. here in N.E. AR. It blows.... I refused to call a scripted "Technician"... Had DirecTV's satellite for a while..It blew Clouds n rain screwed with it, and they set a 56k(true) speed if you exceeded a set number of Meg's. Now I just settle with dual 56k modems, and two phone lines. Or the Dual backbone T3 at the comp. store...