Short version: Mark got high-speed wireless with Time Warner Cable. They gave him a dirty, fidgety router that if you touch the power supply, it resets. When he got a tech to come back, the tech told him to shove a pack of matches and a bottle cap under the router to keep it from moving.
installations
UPDATE: Comcast Tech Fails Installing Cable to Customer’s Heart
By 8.22.06
Eager to prevent another snakesonablog style sleepy tech debacle, a Comcast rep contacted us about the unwelcomlingly amorous cable installer. She says:
Comcast Tech Fails Installing Cable to Customer’s Heart
By 8.21.06
It’s expected that Comcast cable installs are both late and flawed, but Andrew W’s friend adds a new wrinkle: unwelcome love advances.
Time Warner Cable Install A Sisyphean Ordeal
By 4.21.06
This is pathetic. Time Warner Cable, you are a corpulent prude whore, an easy slut who won’t put out.
The Cableman Strikes Thrice!
By 4.6.06
We think we’ve discovered the Rosetta Stone of cable company installation stories.
