Finally, Porn in an Instant!
posted on august 1, 2003, tag: me
I now have digital cable and a cable Internet connection. After exactly six months, I am now browsing the web at year-1998 speed once again, rather than year-1995. Also, there's digital television (Time Warner's DTV interface is fantastic!), HBO On-Demand and more.
Thank god I didn't sign up for Satellite Internet. That would have been terrible. But now everything is alright—the Internet is fast and works, therefore rendering my Airport Extreme Base Station no longer one of the most over-kill products in the world (broadcasting dial-up via WiFi is ludicrous), television is crisp and overflowing with new channels and a great menu system, and it's all still 60 dollars cheaper than I would have been paying for the satellite service.
It's a good thing I happened to call TWC one last time on Thursday. I got a woman named Aisha, who sounded really angry to be working. But then she was suddenly extremely interested in my problem. "It's only even-numbered apartments on your street? That's not right." She worked the 4PM-12AM shift, so she said she'd look into it and call me back on Friday at 4. She didn't. I gave up, and prepared myself for ordering satellite service today. Then, at 10:30PM, she called. She said, "I've got good news. Your building is digital ready. It has been for a month now, it just wasn't recorded in the system." Anger rushed to the surface but disappeared instantly—doesn't matter now, I thought, I can get high-speed access. She signed me up for everything, gave me a confirmation number, and today I went to the TWC DTV office on 23rd street and got the equipment.
I set it all up in about 6 minutes and now it's all working. Fantastic.
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Jonathan on 08/01/2003:
Glad you got broadband and put that Airport Extreme to good use. Today my girlfriend got paid and drove directly to the Apple store in King of Prussia (Philly) and bought a 12" Powerbook and an iPod ($200 mail-in rebate) and is now a happy Mac user.
I don't see broadband coming my way anytime soon seeing that cable isn't even offered where I live, let alone DSL. And satellite is out of the question since I can't find any that offer Mac compatibility and they don't seem to want to give you statistics on speed. I'm only an hour from Harrisburg, and yet the technology here is so 80's. Maybe it's time to look at buying a house closer to civilization.
Sam on 08/02/2003:
It's funny. I live waaaaay out in the middle of nowhere, and we have DSL access. It's the last thing I ever expected in this area. Our only local Dial-Up ISP didn't have real 56k acccess until sometime in late '99, and then everyone started blowing up phone lines all over the county. Anyway, just a random thought. Glad to hear you have decent internet access again. Now you just need to get yourself a PVR...
jim on 08/04/2003:
Grats on stepping out of the stone age