Thanks BT, you really are the dog's bollocks, aren't you?
They sent an engineer around today to look into our ADSL fiasco. He came and performed an amazing feat of engineering. Yep, he plugged the modem in. He scratched his head. He said it wouldn't work.
Really? You don't say! Only took them a week to work out what I knew approximately twenty seconds after I plugged in our second router of the day.
The engineer proceeded to give me a lecture on the dB range of copper cables. I think the technical phrase he used was "fucked".
So, there you go then. BT managed to charge us for a service we can't have. Genius. Not to mention the money we spent on wireless network cards and routers. Grade-A Genius!
So, here we are then. Stuck on a 56k connection which is lucky if it ever hits 36k. I even swallowed my hope and subbed to a proper dial-up flat-rate provider. How's that for giving up?
I did look at satellite broadband and while it looks good on the surface you soon lose interest when you see it costs over 1,200 quid to install (not including VAT!) and since I haven't won the lottery I won't be entertaining the thought of ISDN anytime soon (it will mean speaking to BT for starters).
Still, I shouldn't really moan given what's going on in the world right now. I'm going donate the money I'll get back from the wireless router to the Disaster Fund instead.
Did you know that the quake was so intense that we lost daylight as the world briefly started turning faster? Or that we've been knocked one inch off our axis?
And what is it with Boxing Day and earthquakes all of a sudden?
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