Another day lost and back to a bright orange light on the router as I took the dongle away. That is now a phallic looking paperweight but little use for anything else!! OK so they say the broadband could be back on up till midnight. Well that to me sounds like its going to be back on a day later than they say it will as by the time its on, my office will be closed and more work time lost.
Today, the Vodafone mobile data ran out and I had to stop any work till I could find a way to access the net to "buy" more just to keep some work progressing. More cost, more time wasted and still I cannot do all that I need to be doing.
I even tried a BT WIFI hotspot but its just too weak a signal from the office to give me anything more than what i used to get with a 56K MODEM. Do you remember them.....they were state of the art when we had to wait 10minutes to download a small PDF or picture. Forget streaming anything this was equal to a tap with a leaky washer.
That was in the days when softwere didnt "RUN" it kind of limped along like an asthmatic marathon runner.......slow and wheezy but got there eventually! Not unlike the present repair service timescales from Openreach!
If it were not for my sense of humour I would probably have had a serious seziure by now and be lying in a hospital bed a shaking jibbering wreck with the words "Its OK BT will fix it" ringing in my head. Good job they are not running the Health Service with Openreach as I think their mortality statistics would be high!!. Heart attack.....no problem, we will be there in a week......if openreach say its OK.
Maybe running a bakery......no perhaps not.....orgainsing a Bunfight may pose a challenege. A brewery.......hmm.....too polite to go there but make up your own punchlines!!
So BT.....Bring back Maureen Lipman as nobody seems to have an "Ology" in fixing things in a timely manner.
Be There, the new strapline............I just wish my service would BE THERE when I get into the office.
Not good........be warned.......no ......be afraid and run away.
JH