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Dude
10-19-2006, 05:23 PM
It seems like everyone's stuff around me is breaking all at once. Last week my dad called and his phone service from vonage was giving him problems. So I went over and worked on it. Then I called vonage and got them to work on it. The end result was that he was happy with the way his phone ended up working.

Yesterday I get an emergency phone call from my dad, I was thinking someone died or something...

No, my dad found out that his tivo was not connecting and getting the new tv guide information. So in a couple days he was going to start missing the shows he has scheduled to record. I told him to calm down and I would come right over and see what I could do.

After a couple hours I figured out that probably vonage changed one of their settings and either installed service pack 8 which has problems with tivo, or they changed the service from high density to medium which knocked out tivo.

anyway I made a few more phone calls and everything was working again so the crisis was over.

Gray Ghost
10-20-2006, 03:36 AM
My dad's passed on now, but I can feel your pain, lol. Whenever my dad got something electronic or technical, he wouldn't even bother to open the box, he'd call me. I remember crawling under the house, praying there wasn't a poisonous spider or snake under there, to run the cable to the different rooms, because I was cheaper than the cable company. 0$ vs whatever the cable company charged :mad:

Dude
10-20-2006, 10:21 AM
I usually get the call from the store before he even buys the box. lol