Things that suck:

[yendi]

1. Dial-up.

2. Bellsouth's attempts to get DSL working in this house (latest update: Call back after 5, as they have to run more tests).

Grr. I'll be at the office tomorrow, at least, so fast connection time then, regardless of what the pigfuckers at Bellsouth do. I'm one step away from getting a cable modem here.

No time to browse (no patience, actually), even though I've got a lot I'd like to read, and stuff I'd love to post about.

But the important thing is that we saw the new Harry Potter film last night, and it kicks eight kinds of ass (including those of Chris Columbus and his first two films). This is the first of the films that feels like the books all the way through. Also, it has one of the most inspired (if overlong) end-credits sequences I've seen.

Someone (probably sff_corgi) posted a link to an article in which Rowling says that this film accidentally foreshadows stuff from the next few books. I'm definitely curious as to what.

Anyway, I'm posting this before I get booted offline again. Motherfucking dial-up. If I wanted to get my information this slowly, I'd read a fucking newspaper (okay, I already read today's AJC, but I want actual information, dammit).

Comments

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Best end credits ever: Airplane.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I switched to cable when I moved recently and I am never. Ever. Ever going back to DSL, or at least DSL as provided by BellSuckTheEnjoymentOutOfLife. To say "they suck" is to cause linguists to redefine the word "suck" so that it means something quite worse than being eaten alive by rats.

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

Dude a cable modem is so much faster than DSL, why bother with BellSucks?

I get 300k/sec on my charter cable modem and have seen similar speeds reported by Comcast users. I doubt a DSL user gets half that on a good day.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Cable Modem Speeds can be as slow as DSL, depending on whether they have over subscribed your area. Unfortuately the only way to know is to get it and see what happens.

Dialup has sucked for years.... and still does (I suffer from this problem except when I can access a Hotpoint).

[sempereadem.livejournal.com]

A coworker dealt with the Nightmare that is BellSouth DSL for about 3 months. He finally told them to take all their shit and go home and went and got a cable modem.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

I had cable and switched to DSL even before I got a discount..too much down time. Now it has become even better. on my dsl the dl is 3meg the up is 1.5 meg. cable here is 3 meg dl and 128k ul. Plus dsl is dedicated bandwidth and cable is shared bandwidth. Do wonder if you remember who you talked to. I do not work for BellSouth but both #1 and #2 sons do work for the company that does their DSL support.

[tofu-cat.livejournal.com]

When I first moved in with my husband, we also attempted to change our DSL service to the new house. We were with Earthlink at the time. After a month, no DSL service, so we called them, and found out that our order was mysteriously canceled. We reinstate the order, was told it takes a month to activate. We wait. No DSL after the a month, after the supposed start date. We call again, they say there may be problems with the wiring. They send us a new modem. We wait. No DSL. Then, our order is mysteriously canceled.

We call them now in the 3rd month of having no DSL, and instead of being blown off, we persisted and talked to various people in the chain of command and finally found out that they didn't have DSL service in the new area!

Right. Thanks. Why couldn't you have told us earlier?

We switched to Verizon and got service in two weeks. Now, adding insult to injury, Earthlink periodically calls us and asks why we've switched.

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

Okay, if you like the new Harry Potter movie I'll quit being baby about it. I still wish they'd waited until the books were finished to do this.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Believe me, after everybody else gets to see the movie, I'm sure I'll have more than one picking-scenes-to-shreds posts trying to figure out which bits she meant....

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

I had BellSouth DSL for more than two years, and it was just fine.

Re: BellSouth

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

When we were going from Frame Relay to DSL that I read dslreports.com regularly. Bellsouth was regularly listed as the very worst carrier to have. I haven't read it since then but it sounds like it didn't change. On the other hand, I was very happy with my SpeakEasy install. They quoted me 14 days and I got it in 6. I was very confused at the competence shown by US West.

[thebaronofmspg.livejournal.com]

BellSouth has 3Mb DSL a offering now, too. I get 300K/sec downloads consistently, no problem. $49.95 for static IP, 8 boxes, and 3mbit. *shrug* not a bad deal. ELNK charges me $64.95 for 1.5Mbit + static IP.

DSL Install

[digriz.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I know your pain. Verizon has been screwing me over for the past 2 weeks with my move. That includes completely disabling my existing email account - twice - because for whatever reason they believed I'd want a new one. The DSL install date got pushed back from the 28th of May to June 3 to June 7. *sigh*

At least I know, from past experience, once the DSL is up, it just works. Which isn't the case for cable modem service around here.

[yendi]

Zucker and Abrahams have always had fun opening and closing credits. Rat Race may be my favorite opening credit sequence, and the jokes in Hot Shots still crack me up.

[yendi]

So did we, in the old house. That's why I'm so surprised at just how bad the current experience is.

[yendi]

Not me. I want to see these movies with my daughter, not my granddaughter.

[yendi]

I talked to four different people ("Chris" is the only first name I remember). All were equally unhelpful.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

neither of them. Kev does 1st tier..sean does 3rd tier. And apparently they were busy all week for some reason.

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

I have a thing about book/movie conversions. I've been negative about most of them, I have to confess, but I don't have kids... That would change things.