Well, their phone techs may fuck and suck pigs instead of providing service, but once I got a field tech out here, Bellsouth got their act together. Took him about three minutes to agree that the line was the problem, and about forty seconds more to replace the ancient wires at the NID with good ones. Lo and behold, we're online!
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Date: 2004-06-15 06:41 am (UTC)Sort of like my recent experiences with wireless, actually. At least you didn't end up with a 20 foot antenna mast on your roof. ;)
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Date: 2004-06-15 08:04 pm (UTC)Um... Didn't Magellan say "What?" and get hit with a spear at some point? Eek! ^_^