I used to work for a cable company whose name rhymes with “bombast”. They offer a wifi service whose name is a derivation of the word “infinity”. Most of the hotspots for this wifi service are provided by the Bombast wireless routers that cable customers have in their homes. So if you’re a Bombast customer, you’re helping to pay the electrical bill and giving up bandwidth in order to provide Infinity wifi.
Another fun Bombast story: the founder, a man who always wore a bowtie, died a few years ago. At a memorial service in his honor, a number of vice presidents and other executives (including my boss at the time) wore bowties. Everyone who wore a bowtie to the service was fired within a week.
Well yeah, I got that. But did they interpret that as mockery or did I miss something?
Once I realized this I turned it off on my modem/router. I turned the router function off completely to be able to use my own equipment rather than the crap they give you.
Did you check to see if you still got a strong Infinity signal in your house? I’m not sure this was something you could turn off.
If you disconnect your existing connection, and got a new one using another name, saying that you’re new occupant, you can get that new connection discount (over and over again).
I’ve never had to disconnect. Once the discount has expired, I just go online and check the prices for changing my internet speed. Most of the time there’s a discounted one (with a contract agreement of course). But I’ve been switching back and forth between different speeds for years and saved a lot of money that way. Also buy your own modem/router instead of paying rental fees for their equipment.
Careful, sometimes they’ll come out just to pull your plug from a concentrator when you disconnect, or it just happens when they’re hooking up a new customer and yours gets unplugged to make room. But then they turn around and charge like $50 just to come out and plug that back in for a new install. That can be the entire install, you can bring your own modem and have everything fine inside, but some yahoo charges $50 to come out and plug some coax into a concentrator in a box 20 ft from your house that they unplugged for free last week.
I don’t understand the bow tie thing, that just seems petty. Why would they fire them?
Not the OP, but my speculation? The new folks in charge didn’t like the founder and the people who looked up to him and wanted to take the company in a completely different direction.
They likely already knew who the loyalists were before the funeral, but if not, those who self identified by wearing bowties would work just as well.
