Voip Blog
The love is gone
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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I remember when DSL was a heady luxury no one could afford; not like it was even offered in our back-of-beyond area, anyhow. Seriously, more cows than people here. Even so, after years of patient waiting, when we finally saw the great DSL and cable rollouts, we jumped right in and oh--that first trip out on the Information SuperHighway with our turbocharged browser...pure farking magic and not a traffic cop in sight.
But then, after a while, enough people joined the stampede that service started getting seriously clogged up. And later, there was this ginormous merger fiasco that resulted somehow in our DSL dropping out and coming back on like every other nanosecond ALL THE FREAKING TIME. We had a good run, but at the end of the day, we were tired of the fighting and the broken promises and the relentless spending of money for pure and utter doggie do. That cable service was looking pretty darn good. Also? With the constant fluctuation in our service, we couldn't really support a voip internet phone. So we switched.
Our honeymoon over the summer was glorious, to be sure, but Honey, we really need to talk. I know you're trying to stretch your wings, evolve with the times, blah, blah, blah. But you need to stop with the lying, already. Don't tell me you're going to be having minor broadband outages from zero dark-thirty to well before dawn and then knock my service out half the night and most of the next day. And the next. No voip. No interwebs. Sigh. I will wither and die if you don't knock this shite off.
Anybody else ready for true broadband provider choice?
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