alright, before I say anything, you guys with good/great/awesome internet can forget off into another thread, don't bother bragging to us poor, flatcap wearing scamps that live in boxes
Here be a thread to rant about your internet. I'll bitch about mine because
holy goddamn is it bad. I use
FairPoint, only because it's cheap and they seem to cover every rural area in the country. I can't say much about its service in other areas but there's stuffloads of complaints for New England (I'm situated in A whole Bunch of Treesville, NH.). The company is apparently run by pet rocks, as demonstrated by this Wikipedia quote:
Many other problems have plagued the New England subscribers of FairPoint's services, including thousands of serious and recurring billing errors, very poor customer service, lack of (and delay of) an electronic bill-pay option, slow or intermittent services, and sluggish and inadequate response to customer complaints and service issues. As of August 2009, the State of Vermont has been in the process of considering revoking FairPoint's right to provide services in that state. FairPoint has consistently failed to meet deadlines to provide a response to Vermont and other states about how they intend to resolve the numerous problems.
And if a bunch of Vermontian
grandmas can complain enough to nearly ban FairPoint from their state, think about what that does to ping on games - I can barely play TF2 online and I can't at all play SMP Minecraft at all (mostly because of Mojang's stuffty netcode but w/e).
Come on now folks, it's your turn to vent about garbage internet. It would be interesting to hear from other rural-situated folks too!
