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Non-Tech : CYBERTRADER
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To: Ludo who wrote (687)5/22/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge  Read Replies (1) of 3216
 
Ludo

My cable TV connection will fail quite frequently for anywhere from 5 min to hours. It happened just last nite. Obviously, theres nothing to be done on my part. Just passively wait for my beloved cable co to put down their beers and figure out what happened. They even have a daily updated phone recording telling customers where the current problem areas are that they know about. Judging from these reliable blackouts and the quality of the independent contractors that they send out to their customers homes I can only kringe in disbelief that people would put their internet connection in the hands of these people.

I can count the number of times my phone line has gone dead during my lifetime on one hand and all I have to do is hangup and redial to be reconnected in a minute.

Do you find this to be the case in your area or is there some kind of magic that would keep a data channel open when all the TV channels go down?

Clarence
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