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glenatronWhen I said "two weeks until we get broadband back" what I meant was "two weeks until BT can start the process of setting up broadband." It is only now getting towards two weeks until, at the earliest, we may get our connection back.
I bought a USB mobile modem at the weekend, but Vodaphone don't have 3G coverage at our house so it's not actually a lot of use.
Orange and 3 both think they maybe do, so I'm going to take the Vodaphone one back and try for a 3 one first as they do a PAYG deal that looks fairly good, but no matter how hard the people in the call centre are trying on our behalf, I am constantly astounded by BT's endless ineptness and the way they have endlessly told us one thing and then done another the whole way down the line.
Meantimes I can use a bit of interweb in my work breaks and I have a blackberry that lets me write the odd terse one-line email or lj reply.
It's amazing how reliant we are on this technology. There are so many things that I think I know how to do, but actually I only know how to search for information on how to do them.
This is coherent with my idea that the internet is an early part of the strategy from our future robot overlords ( did I say "overlords"? I meant protectors ) to leave us utterly dependent on the network with no expertise of our own and no attention span to devise new original strategies. Seems like they're doing a pretty good job of it too.
I bought a USB mobile modem at the weekend, but Vodaphone don't have 3G coverage at our house so it's not actually a lot of use.
Orange and 3 both think they maybe do, so I'm going to take the Vodaphone one back and try for a 3 one first as they do a PAYG deal that looks fairly good, but no matter how hard the people in the call centre are trying on our behalf, I am constantly astounded by BT's endless ineptness and the way they have endlessly told us one thing and then done another the whole way down the line.
Meantimes I can use a bit of interweb in my work breaks and I have a blackberry that lets me write the odd terse one-line email or lj reply.
It's amazing how reliant we are on this technology. There are so many things that I think I know how to do, but actually I only know how to search for information on how to do them.
This is coherent with my idea that the internet is an early part of the strategy from our future robot overlords ( did I say "overlords"? I meant protectors ) to leave us utterly dependent on the network with no expertise of our own and no attention span to devise new original strategies. Seems like they're doing a pretty good job of it too.
