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Morning AM! Got your e-mail. prisoner6 is ok. He’s having troubles with the infamous Comcast! He’s posted on the January 14th thread:

January 15th:

“Good evening/morning.

Well I was waiting for my Comcastic rep to show up. Instead they called, apologized and told me they now want to replace ALL of our equipment and possibly the wiring.

Until they do we are cable/internet challanged. Sux!

I am this close to going to Verizon even if it’s only DSL.

Or maybe I can a wireless internet with something better then 5 mbs service.

FWIW until recently when Comcast was working we were getting 20mbs reliably and peaking at 40-50 mbs. When we picked up the phone service the modem was replaced with an Arris modem/router. Piece of poo. Never was able to port forward.

That’s also when Comcast pushed that parallel wireless making our place as well as anyplace else with an Arris modem/router a hotspot.

At least we should be getting our bill reduced when/if they get things back together. I’ll believe that when I see it.

Sorry, had to rant.”

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January 16th:

“25 mbs has been fine for us...until they changed the router to that Arris thing.

Comcast told me yesterday that they wouldn’t be out until Wednesday next week! Seems t hey are having supply problems with some of the equipment they are going to replace.

On top of that they said our bill is going up! Insult to injury!

Cable TV is going away!

Hopefully I can get to the group Friday morning from home. there has bee so much going on.

PA farm show deteriorated to a look back to the wonderful Rendell years and look forward to Wolf!

No matter what BO claims the economy is collapsing! Businesses are closing. Two more years is TOO MUCH TO STAND!

Meanwhile yesterday morning on the way home I saw what I thought was some trash that had fallen from the curb into the street right behind our apartment building.

Was going slow but had to swerve and that’s when I saw it was a deer. It was in the street next to the curb with it’s legs fold under it like it was bedded down. It was alert, looked at me like nothing was wrong.

It’s a narrow street and not a good l=lace to stop but I did and tried to back up. Couldn’t see the deer in the mrrors so I figured it had gone.

Then I got to thinking it had been hit and since it was just around a bend someone else might hit it. I debated calling the police but when I saw several other cars going the other way I figured everything was OK.

About an hour and a half later mrs p6 was leaving and I was getting into bed when we heard three “pops.”

Turns out the police had been called and they had to shoot the deer.”

I was looking at antennas again. Probably a wasted effort. One person posted this link on Amazon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEq4rZoYv8

so I checked out the website.

http://www.disablemycable.com/

If I can help any of our fellow Freepers cut the cable cord, I’ll be very happy to have helped!!

Also, I got this on another thread:

http://www.zahipedia.net/2009/07/01/watch-online-fox-news-live-free/

It’s a link to view Fox News Live without having to sign in to your cable company.