How is it going? Its been awhile since I posted around here, and since I am having a slow night at work. I thought I would poke around and see whats new.
sorry it took so long. My DSL took a turn towards the crapper last week. I swear, I posted this. Then it died. I just spent the last 45 minutes on the phone with the qwest customer service adviser who is most likely based out of New Dheli. Not much new with my projects. I recently stripped out the faulty POR15 out of the interior. I tossed my old broken bucket seats, and I am planning on going aftermarket. I had a set of sn95 seats, but the neighbors cat thought they would make a comfy bed and toilette. I recently bought a house, so I actually have room to park my cars. Much to my wifes dismay, since she thinks I am starting a junkyard. Other than that, not much is new.
Congrats on the house! I just finished my garage and had the electric installed, but now find my projects overflow it already.
Nope. You have my personal assurance that Qwest's "Broadband Customer Experience" help desk people are not from New Delhi! The Indian call center operators wanted almost $1.00/call; which was more than the Big Blue Q wanted to pay. If the guy on the other end of the line said his name was [VOICE="Amir the convenience store guy on the Simpson's"] Buob in Boy-sea Mawk[/VOICE]; then it was a Pakistani. If the voice sounded like a Vietnamese teenager trying to emulate Cheech Marin singing "Boooo-ooo-oorn in East L.A."; that was a Filipino. In either case immediately ask for a Supervisor! The Paki's will come up with a young lady that speaks like Queen Elizabeth; the Phiilpines give you a guy that sounds like a Bronx 'Rican. RUMOR HAS IT that the out-sourced DSL help desks were no longer used for "Technician Generated Calls" when some unknown Redneck DSL Tech with low blood-sugar told "Queen Elizabeth" that she needed to send her staffers to school for a little while longer so that they could learn how to adjust their headsets; with the hope that thereafter the Tech couldn't hear the camels barking in the background while "Buob" tried (very unsuccessfully, I might add) to convince the Tech that Buob was indeed in BOY-sea! So what broke your DSL? T1 lines from your DSLAM R/T die? Or just another overloaded Gateway failing? Nevermind that, enough shop-talk! So, do the owners of the cats miss them yet?
The light on my dsl modem went from green to red. Tried all the standard stuff. reset, unplugged, rebooted, etc. Was to the point of buying another modem. I figured mine had died after 3 years. I called tech support call center and was directed to the 192.168.0.1 Then reset the modem from there. Which I had to do 29 times. The red light remained. The guy on the other end of the phone was accusing me of typing in the wrong username and password. Which he had me repeat back to him phonetically while saying if each letter was upper case or lower case. After about twenty minutes of this. He put me on hold for twenty minutes. Then repeated asking me to enter the username/password. I believe the modem fixed itself, due to witnessing the aneurism I was having.
don't forget DOT 3!!!!!! now we just need the overBAKED cookie and the football F'n monkey to show up and have another 8 hr late night christmas eve laugh fest
YUMMMMMM! My FAVORITE Christmas Eve Dinner.......STEWED MONKEY BRAINS Is anyone bringing the cat-meat quesadillas to this laugh fest?
Red "Internet" light on the modem = Gateway Failure (usually). Somebody in Tier 2 or Tier 3 (or probably some lowly field tech munching on a Circle K hot dog and sucking on a bottle of "5-Hour Energy") picked up on it and had your connection logically re-routed to a different Gateway. For some reason, the Paki's and Phillipino's are trained to respond in such a manner that it's obvious they believe the customer is an idiot; then they cut an order sending a Field Tech out to listen to the customer yell while the Tech gets Tier 2 (or 3) to re-route the account to a less over-loaded Gateway (which is a server, not to be confused with the brand-name on my laptop). Disclaimer: Or so I'm told... not being one of those guys who gets sent to an irate DSL customer with a FUBAR'd gateway on a semi-regular basis!
