November 13, 2006
Out With DirecTV, In With Time Warner
After almost two and a half years, I've decided to ditch DirecTV. When I first moved to my building DirecTV was my only option. Sometime late last year our building was finally deemed worthy by the Time Warner overlords of being wired for their service. It wasn't easy though. Someone in our building wrote to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to complain that Time Warner wasn't acting on several requests to have the building wired. Apparently, that did the trick.
We've recently been experiencing problems with our DirecTV - problems that would result in no sound, a jumbled picture, or nothing at all. When it would rain, there would be almost no chance of any signal. There were even days without a cloud in the sky and the picture would be messed up. Saturday we had Time Warner cable installed and we have no complaints...yet. In addition to cable, we also got a cable modem. So no more DirecTV and no more borrowing the neighbor's DSL connection. Exciting weekend!
Posted by tien mao in TV at 7:59 AM
I, too, recently made the switch to Time Warner (or Tom Warner as I always thought he was called) from antenna and dial-up!
Welcome to the 21st century! It's such a lovely place...
Posted by: mollysusie at November 13, 2006 9:44 AM
I don't know how you lasted, even borrowing DSL. At one time I had both DSL (paid for) and Charter cable Internet (class action lawsuit six months FREE service). I truly miss the Cable internet because it was faster and I feel more reliable. It's also $30/m more!
Posted by: Elena at November 13, 2006 11:39 PM
molly - ha! tom warner. he would be really rich!
elena - it's hard to pass up six free months.
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at November 14, 2006 11:43 PM
I'll be bugging you about the switch to Tom Warner - I've read enough about those "city wide outages."
Posted by: Jen at November 15, 2006 5:29 PM
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Jen: I'll be bugging you about the switch to Tom Warner - I've read enough about thos... {read on}
tien: molly - ha! tom warner. he would be really rich! elena - it's hard to pass up s... {read on}
Elena: I don't know how you lasted, even borrowing DSL. At one time I had both DSL (pai... {read on}
mollysusie: I, too, recently made the switch to Time Warner (or Tom Warner as I always thoug... {read on}