The Battle Rages On...
06/27/08 07:16 AM
| Toil ItThursday the long awaited day off. Thursday I was ordered to be up and cogent at 7:00 AM. A cruel thing to do to a man's day off. But it was for the arrival of the cable company commandos that the order was so given. They arrived at 7:11 (and didn't bring slushies or hot dogs) determined that which I already knew. My in-house cable receiving equipment was tip top and the signal strength was aces. I, like my wife before me (even though she was on her way to work and not at all before me) recommended a look in the junction box outside where twice in our digital storied past comcastic commandos had put some sort of signal filter in for denizens of the cul-de-sac further down the road. Twice before this filter or filters disrupted our signal and caused us untold grief (can you say Colts Playoffs 2006?). Twice before a technician had danced with my A/V equipment and found it a worthy dance companion and then found the culprit to be lurking inside the junction box outside. I said such to the dynamic duo. Yes they sent two, one to subdue the angry customer who was lacking digital cable for a fortnight, and one to repair the problem I suspect. As I proposed the box solution and filter tampering they looked on with curious and circumspective gaze. They must have thought the consumer of a querulous nature but after about twenty minutes they came back in to announce, "Well there is a problem with that box (junction) and someone will be out later today or tomorrow to look at it, you do not have to be home and they don't need to come in." I took note of the use of "look at it" instead of "fix it", and signed their silly paperwork.
6 Days Later...
Oh my god!!! It is still hit or miss, now every day that it rains the digital cable goes out completely, and it stays off for the better part of 24 hrs. We didn't get our full channel line up until Monday or Tuesday of this week, and since yesterday's pop-up storms we have been completely without digital cable again! If digital cable and HD are the current and future of cable then I think I would prefer a simpler time...
To Be Continued... yet again