Lillia 69 April 9, 2012 Share April 9, 2012 (edited) Well, I got a curious e-mail from my ISP. My total internet killswitch (my term, not theirs) has been hit. It goes into effect at midnight, though knowing these guys, it may well be up to 3 hours earlier. Needless to say, this is going to affect my presence here in a significant way. I'll log on when I can, from libraries and cafe's, but I make no promises of regularity. I'm not sure what caused this killswitch to go into effect. I'm badgering my service provider with questions already, but they seem almost as confused as I am, at least on the basic customer service level, and they won't tell me precisely why I got that e-mail, though they acknowledged that it DID come from their official e-mail service when I read them the address it was sent from, so this isn't some phishing scam as far as I can tell. In any case, this puts my involvement in, well, everything on hold while the different echelons of internet providerness argue about what the mad wild buck is happening. A few others with my service provider have complained about crap like this before, but I honestly thought that stuff had been taken care of. Evidently, it hasn't. I hope to have this resolved as soon as I can, but until then, don't worry. I'm not dead, or dying. Although depending on how this goes, I won't guarantee the same thing for a few employees of my service provider. Anyway, to make this an ACTUAL TOPIC, please do spill your hate for the stupid crap your phone, cable, satellite, and yes, even your internet, service providers pull. I mean, love and tolerance I guess... but these sort of folk make it REALLY hard. Edited April 9, 2012 by Graf van Rainbow Shy The Most Misunderstood Mare... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonshy 2,305 April 9, 2012 Share April 9, 2012 This one time at band camp... Anyways, I don't know many things about the services and such. My parents administrate all the, well just about everything. I know that Verizon had pulled some sneaky things before. 2 Yeh Want to know how to get more page views? Click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
be my waifu 2,843 April 9, 2012 Share April 9, 2012 That really sucks... Someone I know has an internet kill switch at midnight as well, except his parents put it there on purpose :/ We used to have at&t as an ISP. Their customer service was terrible... Our connection just gave out one day and we called them over to fix it... It took them a week to get out there (I was about to go insane from not having internet for a week). When they finally did come, they "fixed" it and they claimed it should be working, but within a few days it cut out again. This happened 3 times over again until we decided to finally switch providers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killian Jones 2,655 April 9, 2012 Share April 9, 2012 Sad to hear that. Internet here is very expensive, they have enforced bandwidth on all customers unless you pay ridiculous monthly fees. Their modems fail often. Also there is no competition, there are two ISPs, there aren't really many alternatives. Also my ISP last year lied about putting fiberwire everywhere, they were putting coaxial cables and claiming it was fiberwire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KakeiTheWolf 652 April 10, 2012 Share April 10, 2012 ISP... My personal bane. My Music: http://kakeithewolf.bandcamp.com/. Now on tumblr at kakeithewolf.tumblr.com Youtube: youtube.com/user/KakeiTheWoIf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croaks 251 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 (edited) We're with AT&T, which sucks, and to cancel one contract, you have to pay $200. In some ways, it's like the Hotel California. Edited April 11, 2012 by Croaks http://pilot-croaks.deviantart.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureity 3,055 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 (edited) My ISP is pretty decent. The same cannot be said my for phone company. Dear god... (Oh well, still a better company than Pepco! ^^) Edited April 11, 2012 by Aureity A lil' Catherine <(^.^)> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrFrog 928 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 Never get Clearwire as an internet provider, their freaking signal is so unreliable. "Never give no manipulative bitch the benefit of the doubt" - Compa's grandpa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JhonHipster 124 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 My ISP is great and so is my modem. My router on the other hand... lets hope this works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyh3 153 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 I don't have too many complaints about my ISP - the download speeds are high, prices are reasonable, and the bandwidth caps are fairly reasonable (250-500GB depending on plan). However, when our service does go out and I call them about it, they always ask me a question which I find highly frustrating: "Would you like to switch from your traditional telephone service to our VoIP service?" That question is just highly annoying to me. VoIP is telephone service that runs over the Internet. If my modem goes out and I need to call them, and my phone only works if it's connected to the Internet, that kinda throws me into a loop. Only choice left is to use a cell phone, but I hate talking on those things for more than a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_wesley125 393 April 11, 2012 Share April 11, 2012 Get a new ISP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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