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Jun. 7th, 2006 05:45 pmI'm actually posting this on the road -- the outpatient wing of a hospital near Annapolis. No, noone is harmed, nothing living... although I wonder if they do any diagnostics on cable internet service...
My home's cable service died yesterday night, and so far it hasn't been restored. I'll check it again, but needless to say we're now very dissatisfied with Millenium Digital Media and will start taking our money elsewhere.
Like Verizon. Dad had me order Fiber Optical Internet service (FOIS) aka Fiber to the House. It's $10 cheaper, has no setup fee, and they're throwing in a free router to boot (but we can use our own). It looks like all they really need to do is tunnel the fiber optic cable into the house. We should get it installed on the 19th. If by that time Verizon gets a TV licence from Anne Arundel County, we're switching completely away from Millenium.
Which would be a good thing, because I read in US Today that cable operators will ether have to cut down the number of analog channels to carry the digital HDTV channels, or give out new hardware because they'll be sending only a limited amount of HDTV and anything else they offer is sent by request. We'd need to get new equipment anyway had we bought any HDTV capable equipment previously. What fun.
So if you're wondering what happened... there you go.
My home's cable service died yesterday night, and so far it hasn't been restored. I'll check it again, but needless to say we're now very dissatisfied with Millenium Digital Media and will start taking our money elsewhere.
Like Verizon. Dad had me order Fiber Optical Internet service (FOIS) aka Fiber to the House. It's $10 cheaper, has no setup fee, and they're throwing in a free router to boot (but we can use our own). It looks like all they really need to do is tunnel the fiber optic cable into the house. We should get it installed on the 19th. If by that time Verizon gets a TV licence from Anne Arundel County, we're switching completely away from Millenium.
Which would be a good thing, because I read in US Today that cable operators will ether have to cut down the number of analog channels to carry the digital HDTV channels, or give out new hardware because they'll be sending only a limited amount of HDTV and anything else they offer is sent by request. We'd need to get new equipment anyway had we bought any HDTV capable equipment previously. What fun.
So if you're wondering what happened... there you go.
