Dammit, Time Warner. Why must you suck?
March 27, 2007 Outbursts 1 CommentI got Time Warner’s RoadRunner “high speed” internet a couple of days ago. You may have seen my recent excited post about how I now have internet access. Well, sometimes. See, apparently Time Warner is pretty much what I thought a cable company would be: terrible. My modem fails to achieve something called “Upstream Ranging” on a regular basis. From an end-user perspective, this manifests itself as a complete inability to get online. Alan over at Users Suck! was quick to suggest via GoogleTalk that some internet beats my previous connection, provided courtesy of my BlackBerry and SharkModem. I found it hard to agree, since I was typing back to him on that damned tiny PDA keyboard.
A little internet research (when the connection came back, intermittently), yielded this gem of a t-shirt, apparently designed by a fellow Time Warner internet subscriber. Another search on Google for ‘Time Warner sucks’ yielded this witty blog post and instance of anti-cable cyber-graffiti. I guess I’m not alone.
So I throw this question into the aether, to be borne away on the currents of cyberspace as fate may take it, thither and yon, across hill and dale, from every end of every non-DSL service area to the other: Dammit, Time Warner. Why must you suck?