I have spent the last 2 days with “on and off” Internet connections at my house. You know, I pay these people over $100 a month for service, AND I pay for upgraded service. I don’t have a problem paying higher costs for better service, the problem is, I’m NOT GETTING IT and it’s really starting to piss me off. So everyone here knows that I don’t have a life. I don’t spend my money going to bars, I don’t spend my money or my time “out on the town”. It’s just not my thing. I’m quite happy to sit at home in my recliner and watch TV or surf the Internet. It keeps my ADD at bay and it keeps me entertained. As a result of this, I volunteer to pay more for my technology because doing so is SUPPOSED to promise me a better experience. Faster speed, higher quality, fewer interruptions. That is SUCH BULLSHIT I can’t even begin to talk about it with any sort of civil tone. I pay for 16mbs download speeds, what am I consistency getting? 8mbs or less. I pay for high def television channels? What do I get? about half of them that work, the rest of them only showing up at about 420p which is normal definition.
You see, I’m not a fucking idiot like most people when it comes to technology. I know what I’m paying for and I know what I should be getting. I know, for example that my computer and my home network is FULLY able to handle the download speeds that I am paying for, in fact, it can handle download speeds 15 times faster than what is even available. Why do I know this? BECAUSE I’M A FUCKING GEEK AND I RESEARCH THINGS AND THEN SET THEM UP CORRECTLY!!!!! I also know that my HDTV is fully capable of receiving and displaying HDTV and movies and that the issues are NOT coming from a sloppy install job on my part. I do shit right because I get pissed when it doesn’t work AND I expect to get what I pay for.
So while I’m bitching, I’m pissed with Verison as well right now. I’m pissed that I live in the middle of the fucking city and I have AT BEST 1 bar of service and NO 3G connection on my fucking $300 smart phone! But yet, when I leave my house and walk 50 yards to the south, I have 2 bars, when I get in the car and drive to the gas station just 800 yards to the west, I have full connection and full 3G. WTF Verison, I don’t know whether to be pissed at you or pissed at the idiots who make the decisions up here about where to build cell phone towers.
The biggest issue I have is that if I lived ANYWHERE else (mainly in a city just a little bigger), I would have NONE of these issues. This area continues to refuse to invest in technology and they refuse to invest in the infrastructure to support it and I find that irritating as hell as a person who is part of the “connected” generation. This city will have to address these issues if they intend to stay competitive at all in the future.
OK, I’m done bitching. Have the weekend off and of course it’s supposed to rain all weekend. Going to try and get out with the dog to the beach and the cottage, I’ll take a few pics and post them if they turn out. Thanks for listening!
