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Unxious

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#35625 12-Jun-2009 17:25
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I've historically had a whole lot of * with TC regarding phone and internet. It is clearly obvious that their mangement and information systems are lacking. So right now I super peeved that my internet is running at 256kbps (instead of 2Mbps). No worries I think, I'll restart the router. No change. Turn it off and wait 5 minutes. No change.
So I think oh *, I need my internet for the weekend, my week was long and hard - I will have to ring the help desk and wait on hold. Now, I didn't think there phone maze could be any worse than the last time. * was I wrong.
I get all the way through the menu's and get told I'm transferred to tech support. It tells me 'sorry we are busy' and to 'call back later'. Then it hangs up.

So WTF? I'm mean't to sit here and call back, wade through all the *ing menu's and get hung up on until I get lucky and somebody bothers to help me?

I can only assume that they are saving money on the tolls calls.

I'm beyond mad.

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andrewcnz
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  #224455 12-Jun-2009 19:03
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Not a good look,me thinks. God help anyone who hangs up on me...



eXDee
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  #224472 12-Jun-2009 19:38
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When we signed up we never even mentioned 128k up, but even though they had our plan selected as max, they got our line reprofiled to FS/128k, when our previous ISP plan was FS/FS.
Theres some good CSRs and some bad. I had a really good one a few weeks ago who helped out heaps and actually got something done.

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  #224639 13-Jun-2009 15:52
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eXDee - that was one of my dealings. The woman told me I was wrong and that i was on a FS/128k plan. The failure is that most support people only read what the computer screen says and can't get there head around the fact that the computer can be wrong because it is humans who enter the data.

Other issues included double billing, over billing for phone-line, charging for my old phone-line after I had switched to a new house etc etc



Back on topic - I decided to play the idiot and rang back and pressed lots of buttons and said lots of words until an operator answered. Someone will attempt to reset the DSLAM within the next 8-48 hours if I'm lucky.


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