AT&T Shaft, I mean MicroCell
So I willingly went to the AT&T store today and paid them $150 for better service. Needless to say, I went home with my head hung low in defeat and disgrace. This thing just went national this month so even after reading a few success stories on the interweb, I was still a bit skeptical. Yuki too.
The unboxing was simple as well as the setup. You just log into your AT&T account, click a couple “Agree” buttons, choose the numbers you will authorize to use the MicroCell and you’re done! :dance:
Unfortunately, then you plug it in and the next step is to wait (it literally says this in the setup guide). And wait. A few lights blink and then you wait some more. Finally, while you are scouring the internet for tips on how to set the thing up, you get an SMS from AT&T congratulating you for not fucking it up.
Here is the glorious result!
My heart still aches when I think of how wrong it is to bend over and take it from AT&T. But, it is pretty sweet to get 5 bars of clear voice calling at home now. No more embarrassing garbled and dropped calls while discussing surgical cases for the next day. No more running to the bathroom when the phone rings because ironically it’s the only place we get a stable connection. Their slogan should be,
More bars in more places, now bend over and give us $150. Oh and make sure your broadband that you pay for has at least 1.5Mbps of bandwidth. Thanks.”
It was difficult to reason this one out but 1) the device is transferable so I figure I can try to sell it to the next sucker if/when we’re done with AT&T, 2) I need my sanity, and 3) we have actually become mindless Apple sheep and need to keep our iPhones…for now. :wallbash:
