The tech guy from Time Warner came a half an hour earlier than expected. So early that I didn’t have enough time to clean my room… room’s still messed up by the time he got in. They have this “call one hour before arriving” thing, and they called (well, left a message) at 9:30am. But apparently they used the 9am calling instead. <\/p>\n
I expected the guy to be working on the lines. Instead he came in the house and did a few tests on my Cable Modem… and found the cause of why I was having issues with ESO. However, my modem is still healthy. I asked him if this is going to cost me anything, and he said no. Yet that’s not to say my bill won’t go up in the future. That much speed is probably going to make me pay close to $100\/mo instead of $65\/mo. But he gave me a shiny new modem. Same brand name (Arris), but it’s bigger than the other one, and even offers two speed settings for my WiFi (2.4GHz and 5GHz). The future makes my brain hurt. \ud83d\ude1b The other news, is Time Warner Cable is going to be bought out by a company named ‘Charter’, next month. I never heard of this. And this isn’t going to be just my local branch, but all of Time Warner. . And the final thing. I told him how Youtube is so shitty with me in the afternoon; having really bad buffering in 1080p (and how I asked them over the phone if they were “Youtube HD Verified” and they said yes). He said this new modem should fix that.<\/p>\n The true test will be this afternoon, if it can handle playing ESO and watching a video at the same time. If so, of course I will be VERY happy. Never told him that I use an Ad Blocker, through (as a possible cause to the slowness). The tech guy from Time Warner came a half an hour earlier than expected. So early that I didn’t have enough time to clean my room… room’s still messed up by the time he got in. They have this “call … Continue reading
\nBut the guy told me how “we’re switching modems out” and gave me a new one….also telling me how my speed is going to go up DRASTICALLY. Instead of 30MB down, it’s going to be a whopping 200MB down!!!<\/strong> \ud83d\ude00
\nIt makes me wonder if they’re trying to compete with Google Fiber, a service that they’re thinking of installing in Louisville (the city to the south of us). But wow… 200 FUCKING MB!!! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
\nHe said by April 6-8th, I should get the upgrade. Though I hope to receive some kind of notice of this before they do it, either via a letter or an email.<\/p>\n
\nIt also stands up. There’s no way I can lay it on its side, unfortunately. But it’s a small inconvenience. It’s not exactly in the way, which is good.<\/p>\n
\nWhat’s iconic is I was talking to my Guildies in ESO yesterday about my issue, and one of them who lives in Southern California mentioned they have this ‘Charter’ ISP, and get 90MB for $60\/mo. That’s not bad at all.
\nYet I bet I’m going to have to be forced to create a new email address with them (TWC’s migrate service from InsightBB didn’t really work for me). Plus I’ll have to change the email of all the services that use the current address (such as my PS4 ID).
\nI just hope the transition is painless on my end(besides having to change all of my emails). The transition from InsightBB to Time Warner was, so this should hopefully be as well.<\/p>\n
\nTwo last things. I mentioned before how I was told that Time Warner likes to cap your speed and they will lie to your face. So I don’t know if I should trust the guy when I told him about it and he said how they don’t do that. As far as I know, I’ve been ‘immune’ to this capping. So maybe it only happens in the big cities?
\nAnd who’s to say this ‘Charter’ doesn’t do this? They may infact screw me over with this 200MB upgrade.<\/p>\n
\nBut, we’ll see. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"