CHARTER

stlmark · Post by **stlmark** » March 18 07, 10:19 pm

Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie

Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.

G. Keenan · Post by **G. Keenan** » March 18 07, 10:20 pm

docellis wrote:
JohnnyJay wrote:I have DirecTV now, after having Charter for almost 10 years. I've never been happier with the service. And I get my internet from SBC, also have never had a complaint thus far. I could write a book with the conversations (some very heated) I've had with Charter.

Note: We moved into a brand new townhouse in May. It was just completed being built a week before we moved in. Charter is still saying, as of today, March 18th, that service still hasn't been "run" into this subdivision.

I wrote an open letter in the summer to Charter to not even bother running their wires to this area, since everyone has satellite at this point. The cable wires still are just hanging out the side of our building. So maybe I pissed them off for a change.
People at work make fun of my conversations with Charter. I workspace is very enclosed and far away from everyone else.

When I talk to charter, the entire place can hear my conversations and I am thought of as somewhat quiet at work.

CHARTER IS EVIL.

Cable companies are evil. It costs an outrageous amount of money considering that most of the programming is crap.

Now they're trying to turn the internet into a giant toll road.

Brodie · Post by **Brodie** » March 18 07, 10:21 pm

stlmark wrote:
Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie
Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.

tell them you no longer have a computer, they can't try to keep you

-Brodie

G. Keenan · Post by **G. Keenan** » March 18 07, 10:24 pm

stlmark wrote:
Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie
Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.

With the existence of cable and dsl high speed providers I see no reason to have AOL. I don't know how they are still in business.

stlmark · Post by **stlmark** » March 18 07, 10:29 pm

Brodie wrote:
stlmark wrote:
Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie
Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.

tell them you no longer have a computer, they can't try to keep you

-Brodie

I have heard the horror stories about this. I will try anything just to get these damn fools to cancel. AOL sucks!

JohnnyJay · Post by **JohnnyJay** » March 18 07, 10:31 pm

G. Keenan wrote:
stlmark wrote:
Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie
Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.
With the existence of cable and dsl high speed providers I see no reason to have AOL. I don't know how they are still in business.

I agree. I had paid for AOL since 1995 when I was still in high school. I finally canceled the paid services (since now you can have it for free, but keep your screename). The only reason for paying for AOL at this point is if you still have dial-up, which I guess there are still people with that. I couldn't imagine having dial-up anymore.

Brodie · Post by **Brodie** » March 18 07, 10:35 pm

I remember using napster on dial-up, half an hour download per song, and now with cable, a few short seconds (sometimes)

-Brodie

JCShutout · Post by **JCShutout** » March 18 07, 10:36 pm

G. Keenan wrote:With the existence of cable and dsl high speed providers I see no reason to have AOL. I don't know how they are still in business.

Plusity plus.

stlmark · Post by **stlmark** » March 18 07, 10:37 pm

JohnnyJay wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:
stlmark wrote:
Brodie wrote:This sounds oddly similar to canceling AOL

-Brodie
Uh Oh! I'll be doing that soon.
With the existence of cable and dsl high speed providers I see no reason to have AOL. I don't know how they are still in business.
I agree. I had paid for AOL since 1995 when I was still in high school. I finally canceled the paid services (since now you can have it for free, but keep your screename). The only reason for paying for AOL at this point is if you still have dial-up, which I guess there are still people with that. I couldn't imagine having dial-up anymore.

I still have dial-up JJ.

Only for a few days. AOL is sssoooo ssssllllloooowwww! I'm getting comcast high speed tomorrow. I can hardly even check out the youtube links with AOL.

haltz · Post by **haltz** » March 18 07, 10:40 pm

Great. I just canceled SBC Yahoo DSL and I am getting Charter Broadband installed tomorrow. Mainly because of speed issues and the fact that three people with tool belts have been out to fix my DSL in the last two weeks and have not been able to fix the issues, mainly that the connectivity is intermittent at best. Two days ago they wanted to charge me to have a technician come out, so I told them I'd be taking my business elsewhere.

Anyway, hopefully when I watch Spring Training games now on MLBtv it will look like an actual baseball game instead of a slideshow. Supposedly the broadband will be about 8x as fast as my current hook-up.

On a related note, I am thinking about buying a refurbed or used, possibly new I guess, Mac Mini and hooking it up to my entertainment system for iTunes A/V, baseball games and other on demand stuff I can take advantage of that way. Anyone else have any experience with this?