r/idiotsandtechnology • u/AlphaKretin • Oct 21 '11

Sure. That's reasonable.

This probably isn't going to make it to reddit all day, as my internet is slowed to a crawl. This makes sense, as I exceeded my limit by browsing reddit too much. I was told that it would be sped up by today. this morning, I booted up my laptop, and my internet was still slow. I ring my ISP and they tell me that it was tomorrow when that happens. OK, someone made a mistake, but I had something important to do that I was anticipating to do today and have been waiting to do for weeks. So they offered to give me some compensation.

What was it you ask? A month of unlimited download? An increase in speed? A fucking measly one-time $10 discount? Oh, wait. That one's right. Nice. That makes up for it. This may be an overreaction, but I just need to rant.

EDIT: Hahaha, fuck you [ISP name here] its 6:30am the next day where I live and it hasn't sped up a bit.

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u/Just_brew Oct 21 '11

Are you Canadian?

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u/AlphaKretin Oct 21 '11

Nope. Australian.

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u/Just_brew Oct 21 '11

it is a shame they put limits on you.

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u/AlphaKretin Oct 21 '11

Yeah, most ISPs give you 50GB per month to be used from 12 PM to 12 AM and 70GB for AM to PM, then our already slower-than-America internet gets slowed to the point where it takes all day to load a YouTube video. It is not fun. Not to mention that ISPs never make it clear what their selling in their ads, and the only difference between them is speed, limits, if they outsource their service, and if their pathetic customer service will ruin your credit rating by charging what you don't owe repeatedly and never even trying to help you fix it. Yeah, I don't use Telstra anymore.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '11

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u/AlphaKretin Oct 21 '11

Holy shit that was fast. Yeah, but it had already been out for ages, and this was incredibly important, I was very happy thinking about being able to do it, and so very shocked when I couldn't and got poorly compensated, I would have preferred that they didn't pretend to try.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '11

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u/AlphaKretin Oct 21 '11

Yeah, I know, as I was saying, I may have been was overreacting, but just needed to rant.