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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: I survived pre-historic times today
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:03:03 -0400
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On 6/5/2025 3:48 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 6/5/2025 12:57 PM, Ed P wrote:
>> It was like old times here this morning.  I was having assorted cable/ 
>> internet issues so today a tech came out to solve them.  He replaced 
>> the cable from street to house.
>>
>> So, for 45 minutes, I had no access to the outside world.  It was like 
>> living in 1960 for a while.  No TV, no cable music, no internet.  I 
>> had to entertain myself. How did humanity survive those conditions?
>>
> That happened to me in April, for about 15 days.  It was the exterior 
> cable line from the house to wherever it connects behind my house.  It 
> took that long for the company to figure out they needed to send someone 
> out who determined yeah, it's outside line.  In the meantiime, I read 
> books.
> Jill

Wow, that is waaaaay to long.  I contacted Spectrum yesterday afternoon, 
got a call this morning and a tech showed up 2 hours later.  I was 
impressed with the service.