Davidson Design

This is beyond ridiculous - I'm back to creeping along with my lame cable service. After calling last night and talking with a tech for nearly 45 minutes trying all of thier bug fixes, I was told it was too late to schedule a service call. Now that I've called back this morning, I'm now being told I can't get another service tech to come and look at the problem until October 11. I'm only trying to work here... nothing important. :\

If anyone has recommendations for service that will offer me a comparable 4Mbps down and 384kbps upstream for no more than $45/month and it's available in Shreveport, I'm all ears.

As you can imagine, living in a coastal state is not only hot, but you get these ridiculous storms every year. I'm ready to move. If you read this, and live in a blue state, and know of a AMS-certified Montessori School that's looking for a teacher for my wife to be employed by, and there's some graphic design work in that area that needs something done about it, give me a shout. I'm ready to go.

so the cable co. came the other night and fixed my internet ills. There was a physical problem on the main line leading to the house, so they replaced all the little pieces and parts and we're back to running like a top. For now. Until the hurricane knocks us out again.

I hate Louisiana.

My cable internet service still sucks. I'll put it this way - I'll be lucky if I can even update this page again until next wednesday.

$40/month for 74kbps download speed isn't acceptable. And that's only when we're connected at all.

Get FIOS if you can. I will when it's here.

Apparently there was some kind of thing that made the stuff not work right. And now, apparently the thing that didn't work right is working right, because I'm now going close to as fast as I was before switching modems. Not that anyone other than me cares, but I'm happier now.

Not quite sure what's going on now - I've heard random reports that there's sunspots or something, but really... Intermittently over the last 2 months, my cable modem has decided to completely lose signal with "the mothership" at Time Warner. As you can imagine, that sucks. I've had the repair "dude" come out twice to see if there's a problem with the line, and both attempts have yielded craptacular results. On the last visit, the "dude" suggested that if it happened again to physically return the modem to TW and request a replacement.

So I did that.

After driving clear across town into the middle of nowhere, I was given the "opportunity" to stand in line to replace the modem. Finally, I was given a new box, new power chord, and sent on my merry way.

Once hooked up at the ranch, I decide to run a speed test on the new box, since it seemed to be running slower than my old one. I was, no lie, getting around 4 mbps down and 348 kbps up on the old box. The new box gives me... wait for it... 348 kbps down and 300 kbps up. Lucky me.

I called tech support at TW (RoadRunner) who let me navigate their complex maze of pre-recorded mumbo-jumbo to finally talk with someone who suggested power-cycling the modem. Yeah - didn't think of that one. :\ So I humored her. Of course, it did no good. Then they did their little packet-shove thing they do when unplugged again, to no avail.

While typing this in (offline), I'm running another test, just for active numbers right now. Currently (this is time-stamped) I'm registering 158 kbps DOWN!?! and 166 kbps UP. I could put the data on floppies and walk it across town faster than I'm getting through my cable modem right now.

Anyone with clues? This actively sucks.
change me

We spent the day driving to and from Jefferson Parish on wednesday to survey the damage to mom & dad's house and the church across the street where mom works. Overall the damage in River Ridge seems quite light, unless you're a tree. When we arrived at the house, the water was working, although the water pressure seems a bit low. It's doubtful that it's potable yet - we didn't take the chance.

Photos of All Saints church are available online now.

Apparently I've ironed out the FTP bugs and CSS glitches for now. I'll keep limping along with what I've got working now, and try to not break anything if I can.