Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Call Me A Duck

Next Monday night our family is decked in Green 'n Gold from Japan to Hawaii. Skype and Ustream all ready to go, we'll do The Wave around the world!

That is the neatest thing about the new technology, when it works. We spend more time talking to one another using it than we ever did when we all lived in the same town. Maybe we are just getting older and recognize how precious our time together is? I don't know. It is fun when we have all five laptops running skype and the sixth one running our Ustream channel, showing whatever it is we are all commenting on, be it a family party or a football game, or a wedding. We feel more connected, the far away less left out.

Having Charter Cable for our internet server makes it rather difficult, as we tend to be the hub of it a  lot of the connections and Charter tends to suddenly quit on us for no apparent reason. Don't you just love calling  Charter and getting that automated system? Do you even bother unplugging and plugging back in the modem anymore when you know darn well the tech that gets on 10 minutes later is going to ask you to do the same thing?

I am thinking of going to Virgin Mobile broadband and its MiFi 2200 hotspot.  Does anyone have any comments on using Virgin Mobile in our area? It would be the same network as Sprint. It says that it will cover our home as well as all of Astoria, Warrenton and Seaside. Anyone have any comments on that?

If Virgin Mobile works out then I think we will get rid of Charter, pay whatever the early disconnect fee is, cause I think we signed up for some sort of cable & internet bundle, and then just go with their cheapest cable price. We don't watch their movie channels, we watch netflix. We watch a lot of tvduck.com and Hulu. All I watch is reruns. The only thing that the guys would miss is sports if we totally abandoned cable and we are just about this close, too.

Here's a little video I am sure you all have already heard it, but one can never get enough of it, eh? I hope we hear a lot of it not only up to Monday, but a whole lot of it next Tuesday, too! Come on, Beavers, ya' know we would be cheering for you (think baseball, we'll be there for ya').



3 comments:

Umatter2Charter said...

Hello CB,

My name is Eric Ketzer, and I am a Manager with Charter. We are very sorry to read that you are having problems with your Internet connection, and we would like to help. Please e-mail the name, address, and phone number on the account to Umatter2Charter@chartercom.com. Once we can access the account, we will review the modem logs and do some troubleshooting on our end to determine the best course to resolve the issues you are experiencing. So I can keep an eye out for the e-mail, please put "Charter Eric - Walluski" in the subject line.

Looking forward to resolving all your questions and concerns, Eric

Eric Ketzer
Charter
Social Media Communications Manager
Umatter2Charter@chartercom.com
http://www.charter.com/Umatter2Charter

Anonymous said...

Big brother is watching...

Aimee said...

Yes, it is a problem when we come over and the internet is not working..... Kind of weird that charter found you post right away....