19 de Junio de 2016 - Series of tubes

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Jan

This also actually happened. After moving into a new city, and unfamiliar with its utilities, I went manhole-cover hunting for broadband Internet and other utilities. This was long before the era of smartphones.

Katnik • 19/06/2016

Jan, I hope you had several flashlights, even a miner's lamp. This certainly qualifies as a "Dark Net" search.

Jan • 19/06/2016

@Katnik Yay, first dark net joke XD

I'm also aware they now run fiber optic lines in sewage systems :P

Max Goof • 19/06/2016

And here I thought you were going to reference Senator Stevens.

Sonic Wolfe • 19/06/2016

What is it about all customer service think their user were incompliant? Of course I typed in the right Address, plug the USB-C cable in, restarted the computer, charged phone... etc.

Quinn • 19/06/2016

I can't wait til fiber optic internet gets to my neighborhood. I'll drop Comcast immediately.

Golux • 19/06/2016

Oh, God... Glad to know that this is a universal digital damnation tactic. US West/Qwest hounded us with multiple phone calls about their new DSL services, but could not tell us if it really was available beyond what their dumb system said. We had to order it in order to get a truck roll to find that there was no way in hell that it was available as the line servicing our area had so many loading coils and other digital unfriendly nasties attempting to extend their over-provisioned phone services. We of course got hounded for a year and a half later about signing up for their DSL/phone package even though they now knew it was impossilble somewhere in their system. We went with Cable, it was twice as fast, available and is now 16 times faster than the DSL that might one day, be available in our neighborhood. Despite the fact that fiberoptics and DSLAMS are going in all around us. Yeah, the local loop is that bad.

Jan • 19/06/2016

@Golux Yikes. My favorite (or least favorite) part was when the online availability said, "Service might be available!" And of course, a form to fill in your telephone number so they can robo-call-spam you (found that out the hard way).

Okay. So I knew this strip would most likely be a miss XD Onto more interesting move-in stories next time ^^

drivernjax • 19/06/2016

I think Amber is NOT a happy camper in the last panel. LOL. It's a wonder she isn't hitting him on the chest with her fists.

jprime • 19/06/2016

@drivernjax I know, right? It's like, why's she even there?

RCRuskin • 20/06/2016

Golux, I used to do tech support for a DSL ISP, getting close to 20 years ago now. So, so many calls from customers asking about the status of their order, and I did a diagnostic on the line and had to deliver the news, and get yelled at.

All because sales could not access the simple line diagnostic tool.

I hate that company.

Mr.Phox • 20/06/2016

I hate wen they scam you with a new service that is not available where you live.

Not sure they are aware that its the 21 th century and its time to get digital everywhere for a low price.

Silverwolf • 20/06/2016

Okay, now they need to call Wolf and get his help. If a few minutes with him on the phone doesn't get results...try a few minutes with him at the service center. Given what happened with his professors...he'll have them setting up their internet in no time.

passerby • 22/06/2016

Several years ago I moved into a district providers avoided. It was between 3 cities, separated from each with industrial parks, and the population was too small to make laying cable profitable. I spent over a year using a cell phone as a modem. And then came elections, and each party was backed by Internet and cable TV providers. Each offered around 20 cable channels for free and more channels and internet at a reduced cost. Just to be able to advertise for their party.

Sammy • 23/06/2016

Geeze! Just do like our fore-fathers did, and get the internet through dial up. Of course, web browsing back then wasn't as exciting as it is today, since they had to use lynx browsers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 ), thus making the deployment of 'The Declaration of Independence' to the internet not that exciting. Since they didn't have TrueType fonts developed yet.

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