So I’ve made no mystery of the fact that Charter Cable has been a sore in my side for the last week or two. Probably longer than that, but if we want to be specific, it’s only been the last week that I’ve really been annoyed with them.
My irritation reached a fever peak on Tuesday night after the box went haywire JUST as the debate got underway. Why did it go haywire, you ask? It’s overheating. AGAIN. We’re constantly having to put ice packs on it to keep it cool. And now, when it overheats, the picture goes static-y. Case in point:
See that? That was ABC. As in a local station. Now, while we haven’t been able to watch any channel above about 70 lately (including Noggin and HBO which is just WRONG), generally we could count on stations such as CNN, MSNBC, TLC, Nickelodeon, FX, etc and so forth. But nope. Starting Tuesday night, those channels were on the block. And during the debate, we couldn’t get them at all. All we could get was a static-filled ABC. And it sounded like the candidates were trying to talk over a hurricane, such was the noise.
So… Kile called Charter again and made it plain that it appears the problem is the cable box itself. The TV’s upstairs get just expanded basic cable, no box, and we haven’t had a single problem with them. Nope, just this TV and this box. So the lady agreed to replace our box. We could have picked another MOXI box (NO THANK YOU!) or a regular DVR box. I think you know what we picked.
So today, between 1 and 3pm, someone is going to come and fix my television. HALLELUJAH! And a choir of angels did sing unto the lord!
Friggin’ Charter.
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