finally!

The boys from Comcast came to the apartment this morning to give me cable internet. Finally! Living without internet access for a week is really a pain. Not that I couldn't catch up with my email when I got to school, but it really put a damper on things.

I've never met a cable or DSL technician who knew what he was doing with a mac. It's like they have a list of things they need to do stapled inside their baseball cap:

a.) Click the blue apple in the upper-left hand corner.
b.) Click "location"
c.) Click the following boxes . . .
d.) Appear confident at all times.
e.) Compliment the [mac] user on their pleasant and intuitive operating system.
f.) Wash hands thoroughly after installation.

You get the idea. Not one of them has ever really understood what they were doing. And this time there were two guys: a regular one and a cable-guy-in-training. It was really funny watching the clueless one try to explain to the beyond-clueless one what to do when one encountered a customer with a mac. Really, you'd think I was the only person in the city with one of these.

Regardless, they eventually got it working, and I got my wireless router plugged in. (They, of course, were unable to help me with that.) There's a nice spot for it on top of some cupboards in the laundry closet. And that happens to be in the center of the whole apartment, so I got a full signal from every room, including the bathrooms and the sun porch. What a great feeling. At Gina's house, I think because the walls were nice and thick, I was lucky to be getting two or three bars on the meter, unless I was in the same room as the router. Lots of slow surfing that way . . .

Posted: Fri - February 6, 2004 at 03:57 PM

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