You know, for being a Professional Poker Player (TM), you sure don’t play much poker. Oh, and are you ever going to update that damn blog of yours again? - My friend Jason at lunch, Thursday, September 1, 2005
I do have some legitimate reasons for the state of things around these parts lately. First off, after four years of nearly flawless service, Comcast has decided that the past three weeks should be “screw the neighborhood” time. Basically, I have a number of channels that don’t work, half of the ones that do are super pixelated and my Internet connection goes down for days at a time. For a while it was basically out from 11PM to 9AM every day with spotty service during the evening.
I’ve had a tech come out (because they wouldn’t escalate it if they didn’t send somebody out) and he said there’s too much signal. If anybody is in that type of business can you let me know if that’s BS or not? Anyway, the maintenance crew has to come out to fix that. They expect them out sometime in 2008.
Not having an Internet connection at home kind of makes it hard to play online poker. I’m getting the urge to play though, maybe a trip to Las Vegas would be good…
The upside to not having an Internet connection is that I’ve been burying myself in learning some new things. For those that care, I’ve immersed myself in learning the Spring Framework. I bought (and expensed) Spring Live and have actually got a large part of my final project (and therefore part of a work project that hasn’t been approved yet) done. Programming is fun again when you learn something new and can quickly see the results.
I did upgrade this here server on Labor Day from Fedora Core 2 to FC4. The install removed the MySQL database server and totally freaked me out thinking I had lost everything that was in it, you know, like this blog. We just reinstalled it and it found the databases right away, but it was a little freaky for a while. It wouldn’t have actually been lost, we do have nightly backups done, but it still made me nervous.
So ya, poker has kind of taken a backseat here a bit, but it’s not gone and neither am I. Once I get this Internet thing figured out I’ll be back to playing.
I don’t know, but it sounds like BS to me. Our cable(Charter) had been out too - problems with the phone line, and the phone guys cut our cable. Then it took Charter 4 days to get out and fix it. Circus of the incompetent.
Maybe you should start a homegame in the meantime…
Just be glad you didn’t get a tiny bit more signal, or nothing would work!
(Even if it’s true and that is indeed the problem, it still sounds like the biggest load of “I have no clue” crap I’ve heard in quite a while. Good luck getting it resolved.)
I think it may actually be true. I had a tech come out once and but a -3db filter on the end of my cable before attaching it to the cable modem. They’re pretty cheap too, you can always buy one at RShack and see for yourself if it helps.
In theory, you run fiber certain lengths and increase/decrease DB depending on the length - attuneuation and all that -
they MIGHT be running it a little hot - that’s wild though, never heard of that as an excuse -
go time/warner, man - I love it.
RB