mother of eff. so, i bought a new splitter and coax to re-hook the upstairs teevee up along with the internet.
hooked everything up.
got a message on the teevee saying "not authorized to use this box"
and the internet was down.
grand. so i get on the horn to comcast and we get my teevee back in action.
the internet, not so much.
so, they patch me through to the internet wizard over there and he couldn't help me at all.
there i was re-hooking and unhooking the coaxes back and forth with the splitter.
in fact at one point i pulled the one coax (there are 3) so hard the damned thing flung back and hit me in the face on my cheek under my left eye. (i've yet t see if there's a mark... or blood. feels like it.)
after doing all kinds of attempts, i said eff it. and rehooked the cable modem back directly to the wall outlet
it was like Sophie's Choice picking between the teevee and the internet.
Internet trumps teevee upstairs (since if the internet is dead upstairs, it's dead everywhere.)
then as i was about to hang up since the internet was back up and running, the comcast dude says "um.... how many megahertz does your splitter go up to?"
so i went over and checked and both my splitters (the old and the new) said "5 - 1000mHz"
he said "oh. yeah. um. we can set up an appointment and the guy can give you a 10,000mHz splitter that we use here at Comcast"
nope. not going to sit here waiting for some dude to come here and hook up an effing splitter. so, i'll probably head over to the comcast place down the road tomorrow and get one of those fancy 10,000mHz splitter (or go buy one somewhere.)
seriously, though. i was on the phone with comcast for 35 minutes working through all of this rigmarole and only at the end they mentioned the 10000mHz splitter? I had mentioned that i was dealing with a splitter probably about 10,000 times during the conversation.
ugh.
anyway. i won't be watching saget on the upstairs teevee.
i'm hoping that gigglemom passes out soon and then i can watch the thing on the downstairs one. (in any event, i'm recording it at 11:30pm on the dvr... would've recorded the 10pm one, but i'm recording the Olympics and MadMen at 10pm. You can't record more than 2 shows... nor can you record 2 shows and flip to a 3rd show. a bit of a pain in the keester)
sooooooooo, that's my techie/teevee/internet story of the night.
yay.
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