Internet providers are evil!

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:56 am

I ordered internet five weeks ago, and they told me yesterday I have to wait two more weeks, when they promised delivering it to me within four weeks.
I can file a complaint they said, but only via my account that I don't have because they haven't delivered my internet yet.

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:46 pm

I agree with you, Internet providers are pure evil. I know people who couldn't get their internet for half an year after ordering...

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:42 pm

I kind of knew in advance that it wouldn't go smoothly, but I'm disappointed nonetheless.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:23 pm

Having internet is worthless when you can't fucking access it...

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:01 am

This is why I like living in a small town. It took less than two weeks to get my DSL (756k). It's a small town of only 5,500 people, so there wasn't much competition to get it set up. My connection at home is even better than my connection at my university (not as much competition for bandwidth here).

Another reason small towns kick ass: Our bill for ALL the utilities (except cable and internet) was only $121 for the whole month.

Therefore, the solution to all your problems is to move to a small town

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Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:15 am

I live in a semi small town. It sucked until the time I joined TR. Essentially after over 5 years of waiting for either cable or dsl to be available in my area. Much to my frustration, I lived in something like a 1 square mile area where neither services could be offered. A mile south and verizon had dsl available but it wouldn't reach us. A mile north and south the cable company switched with the town borders and the people on either side had it, but not what was our town's provider.

Then, when we had it installed. The service wasn't active yet, so we were the first in the area to have a cable modem that didn't work for another 3 weeks.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:19 pm

In Delft we have hyperfast and supercheap internet from the uni in our studenthousing. Unfortunately my house was exempt..

If the lady at the desk in the internetshop was right I should have my internet next thursday, but I'm sure I won't have it by then...

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:30 pm

Some of you are aware of the fact that I've been visiting an internet cafe for the past 2 years. Wanna know how things came to this? Here's the sad story.

Every telephone line in greece belongs to a national organisation. There are several providers, but they all depend on these lines. Furthermore, this beautiful national company/organisation finds great pleasure in overcharging the users of its telephone lines without any particular reason or excuse. So, when I first got my humble 368 DSL connection back then, I double checked every detail and finally got the price of my subscription confirmed; 300 euros for six-month connection, including the upgrade of my home's lines and the router. However, when the next phone bill hit my mailbox, I saw that I was charged 400 euros. I was only using my cell phone to call other people and the phone lines of my house were reserved for my internet connection alone, so you can imagine my surprise. I went straight to the local department demanding explanations, but returned home undone. The next step was to stop my subscription and never give these fuckers a cent.

Moral lesson: Never give your hard-earned cash to a national organisation/company/service. You can always burn it yourself.

P.S. I apologize for speaking of national stuff, I'm aware that this might extend to a political conversation, which is something I don't wish for. I only mentioned that stuff because they're part of the story.

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:05 pm

In my country we have a pretty simillar situation to yours El Scum

To be honest, I heard stories that sound exactly the same as yours. Nah, national stuff isn't the problem here, even when the company isn't national no more it still controls almost all the phonelines. But fortunetaly, it changes, and it is only a matter of time when internet providers will give a fast connection for a fair price.

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:24 am

I live in a small town and our bills and taxes suck immensely.

Of course said small town is about an hour away from Philly so I guess its to be expected.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:04 am

El Scumbago wrote: Moral lesson: Never give your hard-earned cash to a national organisation/company/service. You can always burn it yourself.

I requested internet from our former national phone and post agency. They used to be reliable.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:00 pm

Then that's the exception that confirms the rule. I think.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:55 am

(I want that emoticon with the two Niagra Falls pouring that was in those other forums).
Two weeks ago they promised it would be delivered at my home yesterday.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:36 pm

Aargh!!! STILL NO INTERNET!!! I have to check my banki account to see if they took any money, but guess what I need to do that...

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:37 am

The world we live in...

bmscout208 · Post by **bmscout208** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:12 am

yea i had to wait 1 month to get broadbrand pretty annoying

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:01 am

One month is nothing compared to what Harke is going through.

bmscout208 · Post by **bmscout208** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:11 am

ok jedak dont need to be compare to see who has the worst time...

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:31 pm

The story continues..

They did take my money. I just received an e-mail that they'll be "striving to send" their reply to my complaint "within three weeks".

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:35 am

Its kinda like a cycle. They take too long to provide the internet, so they get the complaints. Then they slightly get slower at delivering the internet because of the complaints and on and on untill they have enough complaints to cover florida and providers so slow that its a different year that you have ordered it when you get it.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:15 pm

My application for adsl-internet was cancelled!

I'm letting my bank book my payments back.

Lord Paladas · Post by **Lord Paladas** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:54 pm

Dude, that's why i dont deal with that crap. call me old school, but im fine with dial up. Really, im -DIAL UP BURN IN HELL!!! -just- GAHHH!!!EVIL SLOW SPEED DIE!!!!! -fine.

I live in the worst place for anything other than dial up. my town is basically a flat area with a nice lake, surrounded by mountains, in the middle of nowhere, about 60 miles either way on the highway to either Screw-off, AZ or Crackhead Central, AZ. really, the only idiot provider for anything says "$40 a month!". Mercifully, my dial up bill is only $10. On a good day, after a defrag, it runs about...115 kb/s.

I have done everything to piss the providers off, brazenly downloading all kinds of files of big sizes in hours (the TR 50mb download took about 3hrs). What else is a rebel punk to do?

Agreed providers should just stop stockpiling all the money and fucking around with everyone. They would get more customers if they would lower their prices and stop being retarded. The greater income would DEFINITLY make up for the lower prices they would charge, and the time they would waste? None!

Harke, i feel for ya, bro. they are ALL money-grubbing bastards.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:51 pm

Thanks for the compassion. I've ordered ADSL (cable) that will arrive the first of October.
[edit] but the phone company will only connect me on the 8th of October....

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:34 pm

The guy from the phone company finally fixed the problem!

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:10 pm

That's great! Man, I really know what you feel now.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:12 pm

Merged;

we don't need two threads on Harke's ability or previous lack thereof to plug-in a network cable. nyah nyah

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:02 am

I have nothing to say so I shall dance to your toast:

*aherm*

Thats great news, Harke!

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:11 pm

I just have to vent my frustration at my first internet provider.
Against my better judgement, I went there again today.
They won't take back the 159,- euro router I had to buy, which is still as good as new and completely useless to me.
(and I'm broke...)

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:07 pm

Sell it on E-bay.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:20 am

Nomadic1 wrote:Sell it on E-bay.

I will...

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:48 am

But first tell them your selling it on e-bay.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:13 pm

Jedak wrote:But first tell them your selling it on e-bay.

Who, the internet provider?

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:48 pm

Yeah. Hopefully it makes them feel bad - and they'll return it for you. Sure, the chances are low but its worth a try.

lan_rogers_book · Post by **lan_rogers_book** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:19 am

Yah, and tell them your sick and need the money for medication or something corny like that.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:37 am

^ That doesn't really work, since just about everyone who is poor in the Netherlands has state health insurrance.

Hillbilly Man · Post by **Hillbilly Man** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:59 pm

In arkansas we don't get free health insurance and we are poor. I just now got internet after having it ordered for two months. The tower fell and they had to fix it. The Argonian is lucky

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:07 pm

Hillbilly Man wrote:In arkansas we don't get free health insurance and we are poor.

I feel your pain, but state health insurance unfortunately isn't free. (although it offers a lot more value for money than health insurance in the US does).

Hillbilly Man wrote: I just now got internet after having it ordered for two months. The tower fell and they had to fix it. The Argonian is lucky

On the other hand, the Argonian might have sued the firm for millions in the US...

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:50 pm

Hillbilly Man wrote:The tower fell and they had to fix it.

Did Daedra invade or were they able to fix it just in time to prevent wholesome destruction?

Hillbilly Man · Post by **Hillbilly Man** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:31 am

Well in Arkansas all the people that build the wireless towers are no good. There were some strong wind storms that came through the area and the whole tower fell to the ground. It made me so mad. The storm was probaly caused by daedra though.

Tamriel Rebuilt

Internet providers are evil!

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Hurray! Reconnected with the internet at last!

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