Will wonders never cease.
We actually had what I would consider a good experience with Cox Communications today. The cable has been getting increasingly flaky of late, and the last straw was when Showtime became nothing more than a blank screen. I need my Weeds & Californication fix, dammit!
So, we call, they can’t find anything wrong on their end and they have to have a technician come out. Joy. Well, the tech made the window (granted, the very end of it, but he made it) and he pokes around and it seems the 20 year old cable that runs from the street to the house is falling apart and they’re going to have to replace it. This is where I fully expected to be told, “It sucks to be you, and you’re just going to have to wait for the new wire.” Nope – he futzed around with something at the box and things are working MUCH better already. Bonus: We don’t have to be here when they replace the wire.
Additionally, we discovered that adding on internet would be insanely easy – just a matter of putting a splitter in downstairs and little bro can handle that on his own. Which means it shouldn’t be much longer until I can get rid of the barely functioning DSL and actually have a working network!