bobquasit: (Sebastian Riding)
bobquasit ([personal profile] bobquasit) wrote2007-02-24 12:52 pm
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Saturday

This morning Sebastian woke us up with a shriek:

"MY TUMMY HURTS!"

And it sure did. Before long he threw up all over the dining-room rug and the bathroom floor. I placed a request for a call-back from to his doctor this morning; ironically, Teri called me at 12:17 PM from the animal shelter to see if the doctor had called, and when I hung up, voicemail informed me that the doctor had tried to call us at 12:18 PM.

Sigh. I've called back, and he'll try us again soon.

In the meantime, our internet connection has been as horrible as ever. I've tried to measure disconnects this morning, and there have been 13 of them. Mind you, I haven't been re-starting as soon as the connection is broken; I can only check the computer once in a while, since most of the time I'm taking care of Sebastian. He's resting on the couch, drinking a bit of chicken soup and watching The Yellow Submarine.

I used my cell phone to call Cox Cable (I'm not taking a chance on missing the doctor's call again), and they're going to have a supervisor call me (on the cell). The tech was able to confirm that my connection is totally insane, just as I knew. Sometimes an hour can go by with no problem, but at other times there have been 37 losses of signal in an hour.

He also told me that with the "premium" service we're supposed to be getting, I should have download speeds of 15 megabytes per second. One megabyte per minute is closer to what I'm getting off the Cox news server, so that's going to be addressed, too.

[identity profile] goddessgrrrrl.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard so many nightmare stories about Cox, I would never use them.

I'm sorry to hear about Sebastian not feeling well... When I was a kid, I used to watch Yellow Submarine whenever I was sick and eat chicken soup, too.

I hope he feels better soon.

[identity profile] bobquasit.livejournal.com 2007-02-28 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Nightmare stories? Until lately, I thought their service was really great.

Sebastian got over it by the next day, incidentally. I'm still not sure what the problem was.

[identity profile] moonlitmagik.livejournal.com 2007-02-25 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
i hope they give you some kind of refund on the fact that you have been paying for a faster speed and not getting it

[identity profile] bobquasit.livejournal.com 2007-02-28 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually the connection seems to have improved lately. I'll do a post about it. As for a refund...I'm not counting on it. :P