Well, just to complete the earlier article on Time Warner/Comcast’s fubar at my house, it seems things are back to normal. Normal in the good sense, not the “Dropping connection every 10 minutes” sense.

They did finally send someone out (took the requisite 10 days, of course) to bury the cable. THhey were kind enough to leave the old dirty cable behind, cut into nice 6-foot segments without connectors, just laying in the yard. Unfortunately, then my problems returned, but this time they hit the entire neighborhood. After a heated call with the RoadRunner service people, 3 day wait, and a missed service call, they finally fixed the problem and it’s been running great ever since.

Of course, between the $30 of RoadRunner over 3 months refunded, and the $20 credit for the missed service call, I don’t think I’ll have to pay for cable for another month or two.  I’m still seem to be getting the “Unicast Ranging” errors from before (Although I think it may be a Firmware bug, since the top line in the Log is always the current time), but my connection hasn’t dropped since.  I’m gonna give it a month or two, then I may look into getting their $100 package of Digital Cable + Free HBO + Internet + Digital Phone… That’ld be $30 less than I pay now (I pay $100 without phone, another $30 for Vonage), and I’ld get free HBO.  Just have to wait and see.
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