Introduce Yourself! (For New Members)

[Nathan - a.k.a. NWRGeek]

Hello all! I am Nathan, a newer enthusiast to the TWC community, living in Dracut, Massachusetts. You may already know me as elevatorsonly and NWRGeek on Youtube. In case you haven't seen my videos across those 2 accounts, I am one of hundreds (possibly thousands) of elevator enthusiasts and a NOAA Weather Radio enthusiast as well. I joined the forum back on July 20, which is the same day I posted this video of my local Weatherscan channel to Youtube:

Boston, MA Weatherscan - Crapcast - July 16, 2012, 10:41 PM

(yay for Crapcast! [you can see the sarcasm])
Now for my Comcast rant...
As you can tell, I have Crapcast, which is a legal monopoly in Dracut ( ), meaning that you can only get that (or satellite) in town. Comcast sucks here - there are SEVERAL issues - internet is slow on frequent occasions, TV has frequent issues, such as issues with stations and even outages, and bad phone call clarity and even dropped calls on VERY FREQUENT occasions. (Sadly, most of the dropped calls are conversations between me and my mother.) As for TV, once, I was trying to watch a Boston Bruins hockey telecast on NESN, when NESN went out widespread on Boston-region Comcast systems. I missed a portion of the 2nd period, maybe the late portion of the 1st period too. My 6th grade math teacher and I discussed Comcast's issues on several occasions during that school year, and he has it. Not surprisingly, he hates it too.

Comcast's prices are RIDICULOUSLY high. Many people's bills are now exceeding $250 dollars PER MONTH, ours included, even for just having HBO added on. We pay over $125 alone for phone and internet, and the same alone for TV.

Now, I've been wanting Verizon's FiOS for a while, but the monopoly keeps stopping us. Practically every surrounding town has both Comcast and FiOS, yet Dracut cheaped out and annoyed many town citizens, my family included. My cousin, who lives two towns over in Andover, has FiOS. It is a really good service; never have I had a call issue there; nor an internet or TV issue. (As a resident of a Comcast-monopolized town, I'm proud to say that my iPad has been connected to FiOS. lol.)
I hope to post more videos of TWC and Weatherscan in the future, and I hope to also have a good time at this forum!

[TWCJim]

Welcome to the forums, Nathan    I hope you enjoy your stay here.

[Localonthe8s]

Nice to see an elevator enthusiast on here 

[Trevor]

You've had one on here for 3 years...you're reading his post. lol.

[Nathan - a.k.a. NWRGeek]

Welcome to the forums, Nathan    I hope you enjoy your stay here.

Thanks!

[phw115wvwx]

Welcome aboard to the forums, Nathan!  In regards to your Comcast rant, I don't know why things are so different in the Northeast compared to where I live.  Comcast may not be great, but it's not that bad here.  I go from bundle to bundle each year with just TV and internet to make my monthly rates much lower.  You may want to consider asking for special bundle rates in the future.

[Nathan - a.k.a. NWRGeek]

Welcome aboard to the forums, Nathan!  In regards to your Comcast rant, I don't know why things are so different in the Northeast compared to where I live.  Comcast may not be great, but it's not that bad here.  I go from bundle to bundle each year with just TV and internet to make my monthly rates much lower.  You may want to consider asking for special bundle rates in the future.

Thanks! and For the most part, Comcast sucks here. Probably local headends - but it's widespread in the Manchester/Boston/Providence area.

[Localonthe8s]

You've had one on here for 3 years...you're reading his post. lol.

Oh wow..For some reason I'm obsessed with having an elevator in my own home. Since I live in a casino town, I've been fascinated with the different elevator types they use in the casinos and in the parking garages. Most of them are Otis's although i think the one at the Golden Nugget is a Thysenkrupp.

[TrevortonG16]

Hello everyone, My name is Trevorton. I'm 16 and I am not ashamed to mention that I am autistic. I watch The Weather Channel a lot (ok, well not a lot, but I do love it, especially the LFs) and I am also a displaced Chicagoan now living in Dallas. I praise the Lord because He is great and He is the almighty God.

[TWCJim]

Hello there Trevorton    Welcome!

[Trevor]

Welcome to the forums!

[TrevortonG16]

Thanks 2 both of you. Hope I enjoy my stay here.

[BritishAutophone]

     Hello all, I am a new member on this forum. I have been a TWC fan since summer 2003 (when we had the WeatherSTAR XL version 2) It served for the Fredericksburg, VA area and I miss it alot!!! We now have the IntelliSTAR which also serves the Fredericksburg area. I do have a youtube channel (youtube.com/britishautophone). There are videos of the IntelliSTAR and the Warrenton, VA XL which comes on every once in a while when the IntelliSTAR is out and also do emulations with MS Powerpoint of the WeatherSTAR 3000 and The Weather Network's PMX.

-Thanks
-Grayson Cordova

[TWCJim]

     Hello all, I am a new member on this forum. I have been a TWC fan since summer 2003 (when we had the WeatherSTAR XL version 2) It served for the Fredericksburg, VA area and I miss it alot!!! We now have the IntelliSTAR which also serves the Fredericksburg area. I do have a youtube channel (youtube.com/britishautophone). There are videos of the IntelliSTAR and the Warrenton, VA XL which comes on every once in a while when the IntelliSTAR is out and also do emulations with MS Powerpoint of the WeatherSTAR 3000 and The Weather Network's PMX.

-Thanks
-Grayson Cordova

Welcome to the forums    Hope you enjoy it here.

[Trevor]

Welcome!