We had a very interesting visit from some Centurylink (or Crapylink...) salesmen today.
They rang our doorbell doing VERY aggressive selling (the whole speil on "today only we are offering this" and blah blah blah).
My father answered, but being a nice guy and having some ALZ he cant answer affirmatively like I can. Anyways, since I heard something was taking a long time at the door, I came out from the living room and took over, and of course, I loved the lies.
"We just installed fiber optics at the end of your street!"
Lie #1.
No, you didn't. You ran fiber to the node about 2 blocks away 10+ years ago when I was just starting to move out on my own (I moved back in with my father recently because he had sudden severe Alzheimers, but it's in remission for now, praise our Lord. (Sorry for all who are Atheist but that is my belief, I also respect yours.)). Dad remembers everything up until a few months ago, I've been to the house every couple days and there was NO CONSTRUCTION in the neighborhood AT ALL.
FYI, back in 1999-2001, we had USWest "Megabit" service (the 256K service where you had to use dialup networking in W98 to connect, and it kicked you off after 2 hours, then we upgraded to the full-time connection, and after that they upgraded to 640K, and after tons of troubles we finally went to Cox@Home in 2003? or somewhere around there, back when I was still a teen - ah, memories :P)
"We have better speeds than Cox"
Lie #2.
You show I can only get 20Mbps on DSL at my location, and I told them Cox is giving me 100Mbps+ down.
Lie #3
"Have you done a speed test lately?"
All the time. Thankfully, I get what I pay for.
Semi-Lie #4
"Did you know you get slower speeds with Cox because it's a shared system vs ours!!?"
As long as the node is managed correctly, everyone is fine. The DSLAM and backbone can get overloaded too with DSL.
Wash on this one, I guess.
The biggest part of this thing was they were pushing HARD to get you to signup - "we'll give a modem and no obligation for 30 days, but that's only if you sign up today!".
I told them NO, not interested. They knew we weren't worth it and gave up.'
This goes back to a thread I replied to a little bit ago - the only way the Telco can compete this day and age is going to be running FTTH. Their technology just can't support the speeds FTTN & Coax can.
By the way, @CoxJimR, you might be interested that Centurylink is trying to steal your customers. :P
I'm happy with Cox. You've done a good job, and I get a 98%+ (usually 99.5%+) yearly uptime.
But the point is I just wanted to let you know Craplink is out there and may be doing some serious upselling...and coming soon to your neighborhood! :-)
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~~Chris~~
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