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AquaScaper
Jan 12th 2007, 09:07 AM
Ok so round 7.45 or so pm we lost our shaw services....took me an hour of waiting on hold before I finally accepted their call back feature and another hour before I managed to speak with a human....turns out weather took out service to many customers in different areas and I was told it may be a long and boring night. I settled in to bed with a book, no big deal haven't read a good book in months so it was kind of nice to just shut the tube and computer off for a night without having to pry the remote from hubby's cold dead hands :rolleyes:.

Round 2am, I'm still up and I hear noises outside, dog starts barking so I look out the window and see that a Shaw van is parked outside and one of the techs is working in the (-)degree weather trying to get this area back up and running. Cool! (I kinda felt like running a cup of hot chocolate out to the guy LOL.)
Anyways 2:15 he drives away and I rush to the computer to check and see if it works.....YIPPEEE YIPP YIPP YIPEEE!!!! ok now the t.v. HOLY MOTHER OF ....:err:

....well you get the idea...

I can't believe how clear the picture is, yes that's right clear picture, it's like we've been watching half the service at full price for the last 4 years of living here. No more bars streaking across channel 2, no more fuzzies dancing merrily on channel 18, heck even 42 was crystal clear and 42 has never ever worked properly in this house no matter what t.v we've tried it on, yet all the times that I've called Shaw to complain and they sent someone out it was always MY t.v's fault or the wiring INSIDE my house...very interesting.....Who the heck needs HDTV when all one needs is a good connection lol.

Ok now we move on to the internet....
I have Shaw "light speed". In all other places I have ever lived it has worked well enough that I could never really tell the diff between the light and what they claim to be their "High speed" version so I've always stuck with "light speed" why pay double for the same crappy service I figure. Well HOLY MOTHER OF...:err:

ya....apparently I've been paying $24.99 for $14.99 worth of service because after that nice Shaw man left, I could barely keep up with the pages flicking by on the screen....AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! OH! and another thing I noticed...my browser is miraculously not timing out every 2 secs on every second page...what's that all about?!?!?!?!
Downloads you say? YOU BETCHA!! I was able to download the latest version of ZA faster than I was able to pour a cup of coffee, first version took me so long I was able to do a load of laundry and take the dog out for a pee.....

It's a conspiracy! A CONSPIRACY I tell ya!:POed:
Melody
Jan 12th 2007, 09:38 AM
Aren't you supposed to be happy now? lol

OK OK, stop looking at me like that, I get the point!

You really should have taken him Hot Chocolate. :yes: But yes, "We don't know" is not in the tech support manual. "Its your fault" is.
AquaScaper
Jan 12th 2007, 09:55 AM
I'm happy that it works better now but I'm peeved that we and probably 3/4 of the other customers in my area have been getting jipped on service for who knows how long b/c they find it easier to blame a 3 year old t.v and house wiring on their less than satisfactory service that they claim to be the best lol.

I do wish I'd given that poor man a cup of something warm last night though, thanks to him everything works so well now....:yes:
Melody
Jan 12th 2007, 10:12 AM
You can write to Shaw and give them the time & area so you can pass on your appreciation. At the same time, you can give them a nice dig about the crappy excuses you got before he made them all look bad ;) .

I hear ya though, they charge a dorsal and a tail for their service, the least they could do is do it right.
AquaScaper
Jan 12th 2007, 10:31 AM
You can write to Shaw and give them the time & area so you can pass on your appreciation. At the same time, you can give them a nice dig about the crappy excuses you got before he made them all look bad ;) .

I hear ya though, they charge a dorsal and a tail for their service, the least they could do is do it right.

WHA?????? AN' EXPOSE MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONSPIRACY? ARE YOU MAD WOMAN? :wideeyed:

:nah: I'm going to keep this under wraps and hope that nobody ever finds out that this has happened or I'll be using rabbit ears and tinfoil for service when it mysteriously gets cut off lol.


Nooo, this is best swept under the rug with the other truths...
In fact shhhhhhh......:secret:

I was never here, you are reading the mad babble of a crazed lunatic posing as Aquascaper.....

Delete...Delete....Delete!:err:


:WhoMe:



:BOLTS:
Melody
Jan 12th 2007, 10:55 AM
:mask: Who was that mad masked woman?

I dunno, but she left these silver rabbit ears.

If you don't get that, you're underage and I'm banning you for making me look old.
CACAdmin
Jan 12th 2007, 12:02 PM
I dunno, but she left these silver rabbit ears.

If you don't get that, you're underage and I'm banning you for making me look old.

:rofl: :Neener:
BC_Kron
Jan 12th 2007, 07:55 PM
:mask: Who was that mad masked woman?

I dunno, but she left these silver rabbit ears.

If you don't get that, you're underage and I'm banning you for making me look old.


Old? Come to my house. We STILL got rabbit ears on the tele! ;)


200+ DVD's and ooodles of fish. No need for cable. ( besides, if you think Shaws service and excuses suck, try Delta Cable):err:


cheers;
Bill