We’ve all been there. It doesn’t matter if you’re using dial up or some form of broadband. At one time or another, you’ve had trouble getting on the internet, or the experience was so slow or inconsistent that you were pulling out your hair (I have none left, and now you know the cause).
Diane’s been having a terrible time seeing her website, which is hosted at GoDaddy, from her Roadrunner account, due to a terrible time with DNS. It seems that RR is blocking GoDaddy access (or, in my opinion, too lazy to update DNS caches).
Macbros is having a hard time with page loads. Loading his site, especially, has been slow or incomplete, and the tech support that Rogers provides is abysmal. The CSR’s role is to receive a call and dispatch it on a low minute average. The last time I did tech support, we were supposed to average 400 seconds per call. Most customers were (and still are) newbies to the internet. They get 6-1/2 minutes.
I’ve been experiencing similar problems, from time to time. I moved this site to a new server and I wasn’t able to see it at its new location for 3 days, because Rogers has piss poor DNS propagation. Many of my fellow Rogers victims use other services to see the rest of the net, and I’ve been tempted as well. I’ve also had a bit of trouble with pages loading today, as well. My suspicion is that with the new installations of Rogers Home Phone (DTS phone, not VoIP ), they want to ensure that there’s enough upstream to accommodate the the phone network, to prevent signal degradation. I don’t know why, though, as the only problems I’ve had have been chatting with people using Rogers own cell phones. Everyone else can hear me better. Besides, as the tech confirmed (what I thought already), is that the phone is using a different frequency spectrum, so there’s no conflict with the internet signals, for example.
I’ve been developing a habit of saying something to summarize things lately. My new phrase seems to fit here, too. Its all crap!
you can use the phrase too…I’m not the copyright holder of it (dig at Apple and stupidity)
That was actually the first time I’ve ever had an issue.
I thought it was over with, but it seems to be starting again…
They’re screwing with us because they can. Interesting how the service is being squeezed to something smaller and smaller for more and more money, when their operating costs keep going down. Its frustrating. To bad Aliant’s worse in the customer service department. They would have been my choice if they didn’t suck so bad.
It’s funny how “screwing” is blocked in your comment section under the post, and yet it shows up loud and clear in your sidebar comment section…lol.
I see a picture of a cute little boy with blonde hair, glasses and a red shirt. Doesn’t look like your son, is that you when you were younger? Oh wait. I just opened it in a new window and it says it’s Tyler. I don’t recall that being your son’s name. Hmmmmm
Skye, that’s Corey Little Brother.
Tyler’s my brother in law, actually (I met him just before he came into the light. LOL He’s almost a teenager now). I saw that with the recent comments plugin. I’ve thought about writing in suppoert for politifier, as it would be good practice, but at the same time, I don’t care enough to try and learn enough PHP and plugin architecture to do the job. I was also thinking about removing the politifier, as the language on my site is usually pretty clean, considering.
At lease when Mac hasn’t been drinking *smirk*
I’ll have to make a change to the site rules, so its clear what I will be editing……;)
Skye, What the #@$ do you #&@%$@$# mean!!!??
And Corey, you Forgen Cork Sucker! I’ll have you bells in a sling if you edit my comments, you crazy ice hole!
Hmmmm, ban commenter’s email address…..