On 04/19/2012 08:10 AM, DhiaDuit wrote:
Yesterday I called Comcast.For a whole week my tee vee was messed up. A Comcast tech guy came over here thi (if you are James Cagney, you say thi, instead of this) morning.he said my cable box needed rebooting. I have owned a lot of old cars before and quite a few old vans and trucks too.Bit, (but) I wants me an old Citroen Deaux Cheveau car, the one with the corugated tin body on it.

How did you set up a service call without rebooting? Time-Warner tells
you to reboot before they even pick up the phone.

Larry; take some sage advice. Once upon a time everything but the phone
had tubes. If something quit working, there was a 95% chance a fresh
tube would cure it. Since about 1985, when microprocessors started
getting a foothold, the COLD BOOT (or even a recessed RESET button) will
fix about 95% of the trouble.

I don't know about Commiecast, but we have a local Time-Warner office.
If I suspect my cable modem is bad (I don't have a cable box) I can just
take it to the office and they'll swap it out, with smile. Much faster
than waiting for the truck.