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  • Severe ISP Blues, but I'm back

    The next two paras were also posted to a General Forum thread I started on the 11th Jan.

    Shortly after my last post here, my internet connection died, and I've been offline ever since. I've finally had to start up a dialup account (gasp) as Wanadoo (= Pile o' Poo) screwed up an 8 Meg line upgrade, couldn't fix it or put me back to anything faster than 0 Meg, and it'll take WEEKS to even release the line to start up with a new ISP - which is what I'm having to do.

    So avoid Wanadoo, to anybody in Europe that might be unlucky enough to fall into their incompetent clutches, and be wary of LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) technology, and if your ISP offers you an 8M ADSL upgrade, be prepared for disappointment and major downtime if it doesn't work.

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    So I've got a dialup account for now which I'm sharing with the household landline, so my online time will be limited for a while. I'll try and catch up with stuff over the next few days, but it might be several weeks before I can be fully active.

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    Ugh, that sucks. Welcome back & good luck getting that fixed up so you can get off of dialup.

    -Arrian
    grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

    The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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    • #3
      Ouch CH, that is nasty. Hope to see you back strong soon.

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      • #4
        Hey CH, hope you get back online with a good connect sometime soon.
        You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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        • #5
          Thanks, guys. When my line clears I'll be starting up with a smaller ISP where you hopefully get to speak to real people and they give a damn about the customers.

          The irony is that I've been reading Terry Pratchett's latest paperback release "Going Postal" about the Clacks (telegraph system & the discworld's internet) going down and everyone having to send letters again. As my bulky data transfer now depends on putting CD's in padded envelopes that was some synchronicity.

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          • #6
            hopefully get to speak to real people and they give a damn about the customers
            People in India, probably. Sorry, I'm a bit jaded on that.

            -Arrian
            grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

            The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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            • #7
              Yeah, Going Postal is a good book. I prefer "Thud!" though.
              You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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              • #8
                I hadn't seen Thud in paperback, yet, but I've got the board game. I just need to persuage my GF to try it. It looks like chess with wierd moves on a 'fat cross' with all the pieces either the dwarf or troll UU, and played over two legs.

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