Time Warner Cable Connectivity Issues and Technical Failures
Technical failures plague the start of the broadcast as Time Warner Cable connectivity issues force a reliance on an AT&T iPhone tethering setup. The connection in the Hollywood Hills remains unstable despite troubleshooting efforts, leading to a reduced stream bitrate of 24 kilobits. Frustration is expressed regarding the lack of infrastructure improvements by telecommunications companies despite receiving billions in tax dollars.
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00:01 It is Thursday, January 13th 2011. This is your media assassination it's messed up. That's right we're at episode 269 and we are in deep trouble here coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center with your weekly bi-weekly Gitmo Nation Media Assassination I'm Adam Curry hello John and from northern Silicon Valley where I'm good yeah that knew that was gonna happen up yeah I didn't hear you at all yeah no I said something but I was only hearing half of you we'll say it again I'm John C DeVore I can have a feeling this will be an epic show
00:53 It will be epically crappy. Yeah, it will be alright well hey everybody how you doing let me explain what's going on for the past 14 hours I've been battling Time Warner Cable trying to get some kind of decent connection Of course it is all my fault its my modem, its my connection, its the underpants Im wearing Its anything but their crappy ass network just so you know well probably nobody else is having any problems then no of course not and and you get on the line with these people that's me all in a little that is so insulting by the way why does it have to buy this Spanish have to be first choice it should be if you speak English press one and then go out bob last time your dogs
01:40 That insults me so much right off the bat. Well you're in Mexico? Yeah and then you get through them and then you get to Roadrunner, it's like hey listen, I know a little bit about technology, I've gone through the whole rebooting thing... Sure ya do! Good sir. By the way if you go to Twitter and search Time Warner there are more people in Hollywood with this problem No, it seems to be just your modem. Okay! That pisses me off so much when they do that. I said look people are having problems in Hollywood where I live and I'm in the Hollywood Hills People are in West Hollywood They're having this issue
02:25 And it's on Twitter. You can search Twitter, Time Warner and you'll see it! Yes sir well we're pinging your modem and uh seems like you've disconnected 400 times in the last 10 minutes Yeah yeah that was me testing 400 times in ten minutes You won't believe this sir I think you disconnected a lot No I won't believe you're an idiot! Oh... I have the AT&T DSL on order It's going to take another four weeks for them to get it in and then another four weeks to get it configured. And of course... This episode is brought you by Comcast Yeah, so what did I do? The only backup solution that I have Of course I have a Verizon phone with their great MiFi You know, Verizon is so awesome So freaking awesome! There's no Verizon reception here where its so awesome
03:15 Everyone's like over eyes and I would IV. I can't wait for the iPhone on Verizon because they're awesome you 4g my fight Well, I can't get a signal from Verizon in the hill here an AT&T I've got full bars in the studio So I and of course you can do it other on AT&T so I have a jailbroken Oh Thank You darling and Mickey understands Thank You dear yeah some coffee piece of grapefruit for herself. No, no it's okay I already ate darling and thank you for walking around like that. That makes me... Can i just have some sugar? You're on the camera! No if I turn over here If I turn on the camera you'd freak out and the connection would freak out hold on
04:01 Thank you, darling. So I'm tethered... What do you mean thank you? Go ahead. Alright so on so I'm tethered on the iPhone which is kind of working okay. I've brought the stream down to 24 kilobits in order for it to work. But the problem is, I have an internal network right? And the internal network runs through the router that is connected to the Time Warner cable modem so if now all of a sudden I don't have a way to connect my phone To the network and make the network just connect to the phone. So now I had to connect all individual computers, they don't interconnect any... It's like a nightmare of IP addresses so that whole system is down it's like I'm gonna be firing off clips manually its hosed
04:52 Toast but I bet we have a Skype connection and we're streaming. That's pretty amazing Yeah, well it keeps breaking up with me and it didn't and you both oh You sound you sound great by the way But there's a moment yeah, I didn't sound great on the intro when I said I'm you know I had this really long involved intro Yeah So That's upsetting. I'm so upset and of course all my prep is on like internal servers, connect and disconnect and reconnect... And by the way my mail server is receiving mail that's the crazy thing Yeah well they usually do that yeah you store it Right but so that connection is good enough no my mail server is here in the house remember? Oh right yeah okay have your own now So its not because I have a backup server in cloud
05:43 Should this one become unavailable, but this one is actually available and then so stuff is coming in But then I can't reach it unless I switch to the internal network. But if on the I'm on the internal network Then I can't actually Connect you or the stream So there's a long long boring story but I'm extremely irked all my prep has been hose have spent all this time working on this stupid connection which is the 18th time in two weeks of Sorry two months that this just sucked man. No one wants to hear about it because everyone knows what this is about, but it's pathetic It's pathetic that the telcos took billions of tax dollars and built nothing It build built a system to bill me two hundred and thirty dollars a month for nothing That's what they built you bastards You're spaying you're spending $230 a month for this crappy connection you have well including cable TV now He just broke up completely I said included including table TV
06:42 Oh, okay. Well it's still high It's outrageous and by the way they're increasing the rates This is like you know almost $3,000 a year just to be connected if you were in Sweden You'd have a 30 megabit... once you moved to Sweden and then we could have a really good show Yeah, even though someone was doing this show when you were overseas We never had a problem! The show people do the shows great. It rocked yeah, we knew we never had an issue It was fantastic can you hear me or you can't hear me at all now? Your not hearing me I wasn't. I am now. That kind of sucks, because you are coming through fine so if you just pretend to hear me... Oh what? Yes! I can do that Then no one will know the difference It was a great show You know we could just talk simultaneously Oh Mickey darling, i need a cup Use the jockstrap
07:36 So, uh... Let me just, have you tweeted? At least I can tweet this. I tweeted that we're gonna have a lousy show Yeah We are live kinda But haven't tweeted that we're doing anything Okay let's just tweet No agenda Ladies and gentlemen, another version of Stalling Ah, don't wanna saw Tweet Tweet Pocket no agenda K Did you send out the bat signal? Yeah, I'm doing it now Hadn't actually done it Hey Mick Mickey! Hey Mick I need a cup. She brought me the coffee but there's no cup. How does that work? Why don't you do our, talk for something. I'm going to go get a cup. Okay Adam is off getting a cup while I discuss... You know one of the things I want to talk about on todays show which i might get to later since we got a couple letters from people about getting grass fed beef from local farmers
