{"id":294,"date":"2004-07-29T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2004-07-29T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:39:35","slug":"bad-naughty-sympatico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/bad-naughty-sympatico\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad, Naughty Sympatico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sympatico.ca\/\">Sympatico are hopeless<\/a>. Not merely can they barely keep a DSL carrier open for a few minutes at our house, but they also have crazy support policies.<\/p>\n<p>They only way that they will support me is if I lug Catherine&#8217;s eMac downstairs, and have it hanging straight off the DSL modem. They won&#8217;t support any of my linux boxes, and they won&#8217;t consider talking to me if I have the Linksys router in place. The fact that I can see their modem losing carrier and trying to resync even when there&#8217;s nothing connected to it doesn&#8217;t seem to matter to them. <\/p>\n<p>And for this aggravation, I pay $60 a month. Their technical support seems to have got a bit more evil since they partnered with MSN. I think I&#8217;m in the market for a new service provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sympatico are hopeless. Not merely can they barely keep a DSL carrier open for a few minutes at our house, but they also have crazy support policies. They only way that they will support me is if I lug Catherine&#8217;s eMac downstairs, and have it hanging straight off the DSL modem. They won&#8217;t support any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1421,1721],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-evil","tag-sympatico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}