Cox sucks and i'm sick of them. wtf

DSL is teh slow. Cox is OK if you have 5 MBps, but for me its slow as molasses due in part to a shitty computer, and in other part to a 256 KBps cap.

yeah most DSL sucks. cox has gotten a lot better. we can't get DSL cause our central office (the thing you have to be less that 18,000 feet from) is that verizon building in centreville next to the 7-11 at stringfellow road and rt 29.
and yeah Nik the upload cap sucks shit.

hmmm I am right near that CO at Union MIll and Braddock... still can't get DSl so I leach my neighbor's wifi for some extra ummph.

just a random fun thing to do sometime, drive by a residential neighborhood some day with a laptop that has wireless access and count all the unsecured wireless networks. even if they are secured, passwords are usually "password, name of router company (linksys usually), same as network name, and a list of other random stupid things people choose as passwords.

"drive-by"?


I see FUCKING TWELVE unsec'd wifi nets JUST FROM MY STATIONARY USB DESKTOP wifi nic.

But yeah, wardriving kicks ass. Free internet for all.

Yeah, I just saw in 2600 that if you live near a Best Buy, they're all WiFi, so if you can get close enough run ipconfig, get your IP, put it into IE, and the password to the router settings is just "password", so you enable port 80 and get online. It's been tested on computers inside Best Buy, but I assume it would work in the parking lot or whatever too.

Best Buy could take steps to prevent the signal from leaving the building if they wanted... it would be xpensive and prohibitive tho..

just read it in 2600... i imagine they have a MAC address lock on the network so only their computers can get in. it's still worth a shot.

/ex blue-shirt

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which best buy? i know like half the staff at the fair lakes one.

Yeah, I worked at the Fair Lakes one. Did you hear that the Ops manager Mike got canned? He stole from employees. He manually punched people out for two hour long lunches or whatever, to save the store money on paychecks.

I got canned for asking out a female employee.

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Hell I probably see you there all the time.. rare is the day I don't find my ass staring at big tv's I don't really want...

I got canned for asking out a female employee.

I haven't worked there since December.

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I had a manager at Carlos Okelly's once that did that punch-out scam, and he ran some other scam regarding benefits... what a round asshole he was.

Man, managers are dumbasses.

/hopes the people at CompUSA don't read this until after his interview next week

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Nik, if you have any skills with comps at all you should become a dell installer, I know who to talk to. It's freelance out of your home, you gotta have a car but not much else in the beginning. They steadily give you more involved jobs as you pass cert tests that they pay for... not too bad except for the paying your own taxes part.

see, there's my problem. i don't even have a drivers license (i'm 16). i could have my mom drive me around though...

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....your mom

yeah.

Uh, yeah, my parents are divorced and I live with my mom. Get over it.

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16 and don't have a license? Go get one damnit! The test isn't hard. You better have your permit at least.

I haven't had it long enough, and I don't have but two hours of driving under my belt. And that was last June.

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OMG, the conversation here is just killin' me...about dumb managers and the admonitionments over the license. 'Course I knew it would be good when I came across "Cox sucks"...yeah, no kidding. Could they nickel and dime you more for their bundled services?! "Bundling saves you soooo much money"; yeah, right, it saves you money on more premium packages...if you could afford those in the first place. Fuckers. Anyone know if we can get Comcast out here...I've seen them around Arlington...I mean, not that Comcast's gonna save me money...it's just would be "not Cox."

Oh and I came by this forum searching and trying to find info on where I'm picking up linksys from. I'm near the gov't center and the freeway. Course it also might be one of my neighbors. Does the county have any free hotspots...like I thought I read somewhere city or county of Arlington's gov't was creating some free ones...???

Viele danke! (Or is it vielen...ich vergessen...)

Lets get back to the DSL and internet.

I have my own wifi (secured of course) leach off 2 neighbors and am cracking a 3rd. I got cox. im 17,800 ft from the CO and I will never get it. So wtf are tehy screwing over my lawn!? I drove around once and counted and found 32 wifi connecions. The news did it too.

My parents live on the other side of Fairfax City (Between Olley and Guinea) and they got cable internet when it first came out under Media General. The service was good for about a year but went downhill fast as Media General over-subscribed their node. They've been on DSL since. When I got out of college, married and moved to Fair Lakes (where I am now) my only choice for highspeed was through Cox and I have to say...I've been real happy. We've only had issues a couple times in the 6 years I've lived in this apartment and they were all sorted out within a few hours. There was one period where my connection was lousy and it took them about a 2 weeks to sort out but calling but that just happened 1 time and I've been happy since.