It’s actually good to talk about something I can handle and I’m not a retard of, after what I went through with ‘the pack’ and Grok. A very nice refresher.
Been a somewhat busy day IRL, being without internet for 2+ hours while waiting patiently for yet another tech guy to do work. The reason is my router (again) went out a day ago after myself and Wolfdog (and a few others) were done playing Sea of Thieves for the night.
It was getting close to 3:30 in the morning. Didn’t know what we should do, and at the time I.. didn’t want to go back to VRChat as the memories of what Grok did to me are still fresh in my mind. So I thought “hey hun, let’s watch a movie. I’m up for a movie”.
We watched ‘Volcano’. Pretty cool movie. Around 4:48, the movie stopped abruptly. I
said “…oh no”. I hear Wolfdog briefly saying “What’s wr–” before being cut out. The router’s light was still blue but I couldn’t load up any websites.. THEN it turns
red. FFFFUUUCCCKKK!!!
Unplug the cable modem for 30 seconds, plug it back in. A minute later, I have my connection back but the router was still red. Then it turns blue 30 seconds later.
Okay, Spectrum.. we need to have a talk (again). Next day I call them, got someone out here today. I was also in one of Kovo’s worlds (as Kovo was pretty messed up over still not knowing what to do with Nova and I wanted to be there as a friend).
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He hopped off to be with her later that day. All I can assume. Was with a few familiar friends, and KingKandy was also here. We were talking tech stuff and I told him how I got someone to come to my house tomorrow (now today) and try to fix my cable modem.
He tells me “the cable modem and router Spectrum give you is garbage. Most of the time it wouldn’t even recognize my computer.” Explained I never had that issue happen. Said that he paid $500 for a new router and never had another issue “other than an outage”.
I pondered at this and wondered if I should ask the tech guy about this. Because of the other tech guys I’ve been with, most of them are actually quite friendly and honest with me.
Though they work for Spectrum, it doesn’t mean they like their policies. And they’re quite open with it to their tech savvy customers (like myself).
Sure enough, when I asked the guy this question, he said “your friend is right”. See what I mean? It’s good (they’re willing to go behind the backs of their supervisors and give these brass facts to their customers), but it’s also sad at the same time (that Spectrum can’t give better equipment to their customers).
He offers multiple suggestions to me, and explains how I need to know my house’s square footage and stuff like that to get the maximum coverage for my wifi. All of this stuff I’ll need to consult with Kandy (as he’s the one that gave the suggestion to me).
After he was done explaining, he went to work looking at my setup and then said “we’re going to need to redo all of this. I don’t like how they did the amp”. And this is what took so long to do.
So instead of having one line going into my room, I now have three. One for my internet, one for my TV, and one for my mother’s TV. Essentially, instead of a 3-way splitter or having an amp, there’s now three separate lines. He believes this will cut down on any interference. He also completely redid all the lines including the one that goes from the telephone pole to the house.
Finally he gave me a ‘new’ cable modem that I swear looks like one I used years ago. I even explained how it looks like “a cable modem/router combo”. But he said this is what he recommends to his customers the most.
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Mmmm… I have mixed feelings. I almost, wish I could go with another company than Spectrum. Three individual lines? Seriously? Plus.. oy. Where in the FUCK have I heard this same song and dance before of “this is the best model”?
OHH! Right!! The dumbass tech guy who told me this very model is ‘old’! *facepalm*
I love how I’ve come full circle here. Next thing, is I’m going to have issues with my speed again (or it drops out and then comes back up automatically.. and does it more and more frequently). And the next tech guy will be all “I dunno why that last guy gave you that modem. We don’t use it anymore”.
This is really getting ridiculous. ..Why couldn’t they had JUST stayed with a combo box?!
Kandy was fucking right. Maybe I should just buy my own god damn cable modem and router. …Mmm. Well, if it happens again, I will. Again, I’m going to ask Kandy for recommendations.