My home internet connection is down -- for the next week. Have I complained lately about Time Warner? They are lame ad infinitum. I'm hand-carrying the modem they provide to their service center this afternoon to trade it in for a new one. Less than a year than the last piece of garbage they provided died. I can purchase my own but I'm assured by the customer reps that it will add several days' downtime until TW "gets the modem in their system."

Hopefully, the new modem will solve the problem. When I complained about paying high prices and getting crapola service, they generously "offered" to credit me for the week it was down. Yeah, I don't think my extremely sarcastic, "How very thoughtful of you to not charge me for services you are not delivering," was the gratitude the poor phone droid expected.

So, DSL seems a lot more user friendly than the nightmares I recall from immlass's and mcroft's connection. I seem to recall promising myself that dial-up didn't seem like such a bad deal when listening to the DSL tales of woe. Guess I'll be visiting DSL Reports over my lunch time because I am just angry enough with TW to put up with the headache of a move.