The Escapee park is installing super-duper beautiful fantastic broadband cable to every site, and I wanted a way to watch the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Installation only took a half day. The tech tried out three separate units (“boxes”) before getting one to work. Each swap-out required a drive to the warehouse, about a mile away.<\/p>\n
But I had what I wanted, plus a bonus. I got all the NBC channels with coverage, including channel 506, NBC Sports Network with the bulk of the programming. The bonus was I also got Canadian Broadcast Company, which is not NBC and basically just devotes it’s entire programming to the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Yesterday channel 506 quit working. This morning I got up dreading the thought of making the trouble call to the cable company. At 0930 I made the call. At 1630 I had channel 506 back.<\/p>\n
Not counting the computer voices, I talked to three assistant types, two tech support places ( five guys total), one in Sales, one in Customer support, finally a human came by and talked to more tech support and someone in Billing.<\/p>\n
In effect, I convened a meeting of 12 people who work for another company for an all-day problem-solving session, no refreshments provided. The topic? Give Marty back channel 506.<\/p>\n
There’s a fifty-fifty chance that 506 will go away again before morning because they haven’t fixed the problem, just patched around it.<\/p>\n
PS. My intention is to cancel the service after the Olympics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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