Today, I was unable to connect to the Internet. After calling support, I was informed that due to a cut cable, the whole country will have no service from that provider for some time. The. Whole. Country. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was calling my cable company to tell me how to fix my internet. I stayed on hold for almost half an hour, and then when someone finally picked up, my phone died. FML
Today, I called complaints for my internet provider because, again, it's slowed to a crawl that would make dial-up laugh. They said that I live in a remote area, so maintenance is difficult. When I pointed out I only live ten minutes from the nearest city, they responded by saying they're my only option, so tough. FML
Today, it's the sixth day since the VDSL cable connected to my house was cut off by a truck driver. It's now the third time this month, and last time it took around 17 days for the internet provider to send someone to fix it. I've already spend $50 on internet just to be able to work over the last week. FML
Today, after two weeks with no internet, we had a technician repair our service at our apartment. An hour later, one of my neighbors at the same complex yelled at us because the same technician disconnected her service by mistake. FML
Today, we spent an entire day without being able to do work because our internet connection was down. Turns out, only the router had crashed and nobody bothered to reset it "to avoid doing further damage". FML
Today, I found out that it is possible for someone else to cancel my Internet, TV and phone services in two days. However it'll take me 5 days, after 6 hours on the phone, to get it back. FML
Today, I've been receiving a lot of calls from my telephone company, offering combo packages with internet, Netflix, Disney+ and whatever the fuck. We had previously resigned from their services, because the company never had the intention of fixing an outage that was caused BY THE SAME COMPANY. FML
Today, my parents were surprised when I told them that changing the internet and cable service would also cut themselves off from the internet service's email. Which they have everything connected too. I thought about this when they told me they were saving $200 on switching. They apparently did not. FML
Today, my internet was so slow I couldn't even load an internet speed test to see how slow my internet was. FML
Today, my husband cancelled our internet and cable package because we’re having money problems. I work from home and need the internet to do so. I guess getting a job of his own wasn’t an option. FML
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Top comments
Haggis300 25
How the **** can a company let that happen
HUGBUG 23
Good luck friend
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HUGBUG 23
Good luck friend
horriblelife3006 12
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
If u can't connect to the internet how did you post this?
Haggis300 25
4G?
flamingarrow59 21
data
Mynxie 26
Cellphone data haha
Jhk9000 23
Maybe he went to a friends house, who uses a different provider?
Sir_Cow 17
WI-FI hot spots.
Haggis300 25
How the **** can a company let that happen
caliguy08 17
It's called a "Cell Phone"... it's a pretty new invention in some parts of the world... perhaps your country will catch up to the 20th century some day
44LynnLynn 23
Oh geez, caliguy08! You should catch up too. The rest of us are in the 21st century!
44LynnLynn 23
Oh geez, caliguy08! You should catch up too. The rest of us are in the 21st century!
jasonrellet 22
21st century
logank013 20
Pretty easily actually. It's happened in America too. You bury your cords far below the ground and hope nothing bad happens. You aren't going to multiply your costs by 10 by putting steel plates around your internet cords to protect them. It's much more cost affective to wait until they get cut (which happens very very rarely) and repair it overnight.
BrotherPhil 35
You think they should maybe have guards watching every yard of cable - even the bits underwater?
caliguy08 17
Hahahahaha that's one way to black out internet.... You know China just uses an on and off switch.... maybe Saudi can invest in one of those?
waleedma 18
Hmmmm telecom towers can have problems!!!
pelletman67 16
Must be one wire. Lmao
pelletman67 16
Why didn't you say which company and if it's true there would be a flood of people with that same fml for sure
sayno2mermaids 10
Its from Saudi Arabia, however I found a new article from today reporting a fibre optics cable failure causing massive outage in Pakistan, is likely the same provider
Gansters12 8
Well clearly it wasn't THAT long if you were able to post this...
Konarika 11
Maybe they switched to a different provider.
JEHR 13
OP could be using his cellular data or another internet provider to post this, or as we all know, this may not have happened 'today.' It's not a difficult work around. :/
species4872 20
You're doing well for not being able to connect.
jcash52426 5
That's there subtle was of saying they are going out of business.
logank013 20
It's not like it's the internet providers fault that their cable got cut. The same thing happened here in America about 5 years ago. Everyone's internet was slowed to a crawl and Netflix was inoperable. That was just from 1 major cable being cut by a backhoe in someone's backyard...
jcash52426 5
I was making a joke. I guess you didn't get that.