As it turns out, the internet is made of pancakes.

Sweet, delicious syrup covered pancakes.

Syrup that clogs the tubes of the internet isn’t good though.

On July 24th I officially moved into my new apartment and life has never been better. Well, life that doesn’t involve my internet. You see, I was left to choose between two ISPs when moving in: INC Group (a company I had never heard of before) or Embarq (somewhat known here in Central Florida). INC is the company that the complex has flyers for, so I went ahead and chose them.

Bad choice. Since the day I moved in I haven’t been able to play a full game of anything without my ping flucuating drastically or getting kicked off the server completely due to too high of a ping. I’ll give them this though – their tech support gave me quite the hearty laugh. After 30 minutes of being on the phone with their tech guy, his supervisor finally got back to him on what I should do: “Call Steam.” I laughed and the tech dude just said, “Wow.” Possibly the most hilarious suggestion I’ve ever received from tech support. It’s apparent that this company is ran by a bunch of morons, and now the tech support people even know that (if they didn’t already).

So today after a bit of research and a phonecall to AT&T (they manage a server that is in my route to the outside world) I was informed that INC is overloading their system and that they need to upgrade their shit. Considering that likelihood of a company upgrading their servers for one user is extremely low, I’ve decided to go ahead and change to Embarq in hopes that they aren’t run by a group of idiots.

Bad part about Embarq is that they require a phoneline due to being DSL. I ordered the 5Mbps package so I’m really hoping to get a good stable connection. Wish me luck?

~ by dakrsonic on August 6, 2009.