Burn, PeoplePC

Alright. Most of you who have visited this section probably found the link from my update on OGA.
Others of you who are visiting this section may be wondering what in the Hell this thing is about. Well, you're about to find out.
( Small warning: To those who hate rants, leave. This is a rant. o_O For those weak-minded children, who can't stand to see curse words. Leave.)

Alright. First, I am going to start off with this little story, by telling you all how I wound up with this sack-of-shit Internet Service Provider...

It started off about, 4 years ago. For years, I had been wanting a computer with internet. I was fascinated by the internet. I loved it.
Well, on Christmas Eve, about 4 years ago, that want of mine had finally come true. I got a computer for Christmas! Woo, man was I happy.
Well, that happiness was unfortunately short-lived. Want to know why? Read on...

Well, my mother got some sort of bargain deal. It was an ISP, that came with a free PC, hence the name PeoplePC, apparently.
(Which in my (humble) opinion, is the most fucking retarded name I have ever heard, for anything.)
Anyway..
That night, on Christmas Eve, I dialed onto the internet. I wasn't too thrilled with the idea of having to rely on a telephone line to keep me online.
BUT, I dealt with it. I figured this was as good as it's gonna get. Boy, was I ever fucking right about that little mental statement.
Not even 20 minutes after I signed online, I got disconnected. I figured “Aah well, shit happens.” and I dialed back on.
Well, that was a particularely short connection. In actuality, my internet connections have NEVER exceeded 4 hours, 8 minutes.
4 hours, 8 minutes is my LONGEST online connection. I must have like, been the only one online during that time, or something..
Anyway, my average connection time is 2 hours, roughly. Ok, let me ask you all something. This question may, or may not pertain to you.
Do any of you out there (you know who you are) work on things like websites, graphics, GIFs, or ANYTHING like that?
Ok. For those who do, you'll sympathize with what I am about to say.
For those who are just surfers, and have no real settlement in the online community, disregard this statement.
Alright.. You know how time-consuming working and editing a website can be, right?
Well, I have actually managed to accustom my online “Work schedule.” to work around this large imperfection in connection time.
OGA wouldn't be around if it weren't for my resiliancy, and my uncanny ability to put up with ISP bull-shit.

Alright, now.. To embark to another reason for my hatred of this ISP.
CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Heh, oh man.. This is a fucking good one, right here, just read on..
One day, while dialing onto the internet to work on my site. (It was known as Saiyan-Gohan's DBZ Site at this time, instead of the present OGA.)
Well, this was when I used to have to be online all the time, to be able to edit my site. Back in the days of  “Geocities PageBuilder.”
You readers are probably thinking.. “So?! What in the fuck does this have to do with customer service?!” Well, hold on.. I'm getting to that..
Ok. Before I even had the PageBuilder loaded, I got disconnected. I figured “Well, shit. Bad connection..” Well.. I tried to dial back on.
“The modem cannot pick up a dial tone. Please try again later.” What?! I figured  “Oh well.. They must be upgrading, or something..”.
So, I tried again later that afternoon. The same this happened. Unable to detect a dial tone.
Ok, people.  Here's where the instance of Customer Support (Heh, my ASS!) cuts in.
My mother suggested calling them, to see what was going on. I did just that. They informed me that they were not upgrading their servers.
(Note: That's probably the most useful thing they ever actually said to me, mind you..)
Anyway, I called a Hardware Support number they gave me.
Here's where I got pissed at it. You know those automated phone recordings? You know.. “Press 1, or hold for the next available operator.”.
Well, I called that number, and the automated phone recording sounded like a fucking 5-year-old little girl with a lisp.
I couldn't even understand what the bitch was saying for God's sake!
“Thnk u f calling peepole pethee” (Thank you for calling PeoplePC, I think..)
Anyway, after repeated calls, I was able to finally able to translate what the illiterate bitch was babbling.
I finally got in touch with one of the hardware customer support guys! Woo!
Well, my celebration was cut short. Wanna know why? The mother fucker told me to open up my modem, and get a screw-driver handy.
Want to know why this pissed me off? Well, do ya? Huh?! Alright, fine..
There's a big white sticker that says something along the lines of  “Removing the sticker hereby cancels your warranty.”
That son of a bitch wanted me to remove the sticker, so I could un-screw something, and replace the hardware chip MYSELF!
Well, after casually avoiding that little fucking situation, here's where the angering part comes in (As if it hasn't, already.)
Anyway. It was (seriously) over 70 FUCKING CALLS to customer support before anything happened.
And just to let you all know, those 70+ calls didn't happen in a few days, it happened throughout the entire SUMMER FUCKING SEASON!
Anyway, something finally happened. We finally got a break! Woo! Want to know what the break was?
Well, my sister Christy (Go Christy! You kick ASS! Woo!) is a serious bitch (And I mean that in a good way ^_^) when it comes to shit like this.
She was just as fed-up with People PC's bullshit as even I was.
Anyway. She made some phone calls over a period of a few weeks or so, and eventually had the fucking manager of PeoplePC apologizing.
Ok, so, after a few more weeks, someone finally came over and got our modem fixed. (Customer Support my fucking ass..)
Their definition of customer support must be having people wait for over 4 months and going through Hell before something is done.
It's probably a step above that! If it weren't for Christy raising Hell to the right people, I would probably STILL be waiting for it to be fixed...

Ok, time to open up another chapter of my Anti-PeoplePC attitude.
Flat-out stupidity.
Their motto is (I am not sure if it still is) was something  like..
“For a little more than AOL, you can get a great internet, and a free PC, too!”
FUCK THAT.
They forgot to include the details of the internet being slower than senior sex.
The other major detail, is the PC going so slow that it crashed my browser with Illegal Operations often.
The Illegal Operation problem died down a little after I re-formatted my drive (Another ISP fuck-up, undoubtably.)
Not to mention they embroided my shitty modem with this gay little PeoplePC logo. They must think i'm proud to use their service, or something.
Their “Mascot” as I call it, is that little 9-year-old-looking genius shit.
That kid is an idiot. If he was a real “Child genius” he would have better sense than to endorse something like PeoplePC.
This fucking no-name wannabe AOL service relies on the fees from their contracted members to pay for their shitty servers.
I find it strange how they stopped advertising themselves on TV, after they got so many members.
It's because they no longer need to advertise.
As I said. They rely on the money from their contracted members to keep their fucking service running.
And when enough members drop their service after the several-year contract, they'll simply advertise and fish in more victims.

Alright. Time to open one of the final chapters (I have others. I'm just too angry to recall them at the moment...)
IT'S FUCKING UP AGAIN! As I type this!
Over the past few weeks, my connection times have been getting shorter.
On top of that, the dialing process now takes several minutes, and usually has to try over 3 or 4 times until it finally fucking connects.
And on top of THAT, even. My connection time isn't even an hour, any-fucking-more!
My average connection time is only about, 15 minutes. My connections only last about, 15 minutes before I get disconnected again!
This, as you know, is very frustrating. I hardley even have time to upload OGA's pages anymore like this!
Much less actually let's say.. Enjoy myself?!
I can't enjoy my online experience when I know I have only a few minutes until I get disconnected again, and have to re-connect.
And not to mention (Well, I did mention it before, but oh well) It takes like, 5 minutes for the fucking thing to dial EACH NUMBER.
Combining the numbers together that it dials through, it takes about, 15 minutes to get online. And 15 fucking minutes to stay online!!

Well, that concludes my long PeoplePC rant.
My present PeoplePC troubles gave me the anger which drove me to make this rant.
That, and the 4 years of putting up with the slow connections, and frequent disconnections.

Class dismissed....