Broadband is back.

I've been off the air since yesterday.  Today I called the Time Warner service number.  They tried a few things and we decided the modem might have died.  So I went into Littleton, to the Time Warner shop on Union Ave, our a little past Lahout's.  They gave me a new modem.  I took it back and plugged it in and no joy.  I'm still off the air.  So, call the Time Warner trouble number again, and they say they can have a service man out today.  Groovy. 
   And, the service guy gets here. Swaps out the splitter, replaces some tired looking J connectors, still no joy.  He has a clever box the can  plug into the coax and make like a modem.  They track back to the pole, and decide to change out my coax drop.  That does it,. I'm back. 

I love my cable company

Time Warner that is.  The have the charming habit of hiking my cable bill, just be cause they can.  This month they hiked it up $7.  Just because they can.  Or so they think.
   The telephone company, good old bankrupt Fairpoint, has recently installed a DSL booster on Three Mile Hill, which brings DSL to my house.  I could  take DSL broadband ($29.95) and satellite TV ($32) and only pay $61 to get TV and broadband.  As of this month's rate hikes, I'm paying $60 to get the same services from Time Warner.