Dislocation

Having reached the end of my tether with AT&T/DirecTv, I’m swapping Internet providers.  So please don’t be alarmed if there’s a shortage of posts over the next couple of days as I grapple with the promised “easy self-installation” promised by the new guys.

The last “easy self-installation” promised by AT&T ended up taking over four hours with a techie, as Loyal Readers may recall.

In the meantime, feast your eyes upon this:

…and go here to see the price.

Back soon, I hope.


Update:  Forget that shit.  Spectrum is worse than AT&T, so I just kept the status quo.

8 comments

  1. You going for Starlink? I think Jeff Geerling – among others – has a video or two and it really is easy. About the most difficult bit is getting the cable from outside the house to inside.

    1. Out here in the wilds of NV, Frontier is a real No-No: No Service, No Customers.
      Had it for four days because they were the only provider that supported a fax, until I tried to call a friend who lived 6 blocks away, but their landline phone nr. was issued by a carrier in a town 26 miles away, and Frontier told me I needed to have a local-area long-distance provider.
      Told them to send a tech, that he could find the equipment on the porch.

  2. Good luck with internet. we have frontier and upgraded to fiber optic. It works well. we stream our television content.

    Thank you for the eye candy. those shotguns are gorgeous. I like the ones with engravings of bird dogs on them

  3. Not sure if you get good cell coverage, but Verizon and T-Mobile have wireless routers that give home internet. Installation is simply activating the device and sticking it in your house. No wires to run. No techs coming into your home (unknown people)

    I have physical cable as cell service sucks where I am. But if you’re in an area with good coverage try the wireless home internet.

    This can cut your bill and save you lots of hassle.

  4. I visited my parents around Christmas last year. For most of the time I was there, their Internet, TV, and phone were all offline. All three were with AT&T U-verse. Customer no-service was absolutely useless, with no idea when service would be restored. At one point, the twat on the other end of the line was demanding some sort of verification before she’d continue that could only be done if service was operational. WTF?

    Before I returned home, we’d dropped by Spectrum (for the aforementioned Internet, TV, and home phones) and Best Buy (where we got them new phones on T-Mobile) and gotten everything up and running again. The cellphones were up and running first; the Roku downstairs was tethered to one of them to get the TV working until the next day when Spectrum came by.

    AT&T can eat a bag of diseased dicks.

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