[lug] Comcast internet installer

[Mr Viggy]

Yeah, we (DSL'ers) have our own set of problems.

I guess it's hit or miss, no matter what (where) you go.  With my DSL 
problems, after going through the "answer book" (the phone techs are a 
whole nother issue), they scheduled a service tech.  He shows up, and 
walks me through EVERYTHING we had done over the phone.  Then he puts 
his test set on the line and says, "Well, it trains up." (I knew that 
already, the DSL modem had trained up too).

After about an hour, he called a buddy who had a Cisco 678 and a laptop. 
  About an hour after that, the problem was fixed (turns out it was 
either a bad port on the Stinger, or a bad T3 card in the CO).

Viggy

The Matt wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 08:59, Richard Hollos wrote:
> 
>>Thought you might find this entertaining.
>>
>>Last week a Comcast installer came to my Dad's house to install high speed
>>internet. My Dad has a Windoze and Suse dual boot machine. The installation
>>(with Windoze) went fine, but when the installer rebooted, she noticed the
>>dual boot option at startup. When she tested the download speed it was
>>slower than usual. She then concluded that the connection was slower because
>>it was a dual boot system. Then she noticed that the hard drive had more
>>than one partition. She then said that the partitioning is probably making
>>the downloading slower. My brother informed her that this was impossible.
>>She was incredulous.
> 
> 
> Ahh...see, I have DSL.  We don't have this problem.  :P
> 
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