Pluses and minuses
Jun. 8th, 2010 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularOne of those days.
On the plus side, I cleared my backlog at work (finally), got the name changed on my water bill (at last), paid off my utility bills, and arranged for caller ID on my home phone.
That last bit had to do with OTE, the phone company, which has been the source of all my minuses. As well as explaining why I'm poaching wi-fi access from a neighbor's open router tonight.
Yesterday sometime, my DSL went batty in some manner or other. Last night, when I got home, no DSL access, and the modem router was misbehaving. I reset the thing, several times, and got no response. No internet.
I slept on it, and tried again in the morning. By this time, the router was spontaneously resetting itself for no reason that I could figure out. I called OTE, was told that someone would call me today on my cell phone about the line quality, was instructed to keep the modem plugged in, and went off to work.
(Well, I stopped along the way to pick up a new router, figuring that spontaneous resets were a Bad Sign.)
Nobody called from OTE. I came home, set up the new router, and discovered that it was also not connecting to the internet.
After three calls to the tech support line provided in the new router's manual, with no luck connecting, I called the main customer service line.
"You called us this morning, right? Someone will be in touch with you in a few days. Probably not tomorrow, maybe not the day after."
Half my communication these days is over that DSL link. I'm reduced to grabbing time at work and poaching from a neighbor.
Bleep that for a game of toy soldiers.
On the plus side, I cleared my backlog at work (finally), got the name changed on my water bill (at last), paid off my utility bills, and arranged for caller ID on my home phone.
That last bit had to do with OTE, the phone company, which has been the source of all my minuses. As well as explaining why I'm poaching wi-fi access from a neighbor's open router tonight.
Yesterday sometime, my DSL went batty in some manner or other. Last night, when I got home, no DSL access, and the modem router was misbehaving. I reset the thing, several times, and got no response. No internet.
I slept on it, and tried again in the morning. By this time, the router was spontaneously resetting itself for no reason that I could figure out. I called OTE, was told that someone would call me today on my cell phone about the line quality, was instructed to keep the modem plugged in, and went off to work.
(Well, I stopped along the way to pick up a new router, figuring that spontaneous resets were a Bad Sign.)
Nobody called from OTE. I came home, set up the new router, and discovered that it was also not connecting to the internet.
After three calls to the tech support line provided in the new router's manual, with no luck connecting, I called the main customer service line.
"You called us this morning, right? Someone will be in touch with you in a few days. Probably not tomorrow, maybe not the day after."
Half my communication these days is over that DSL link. I'm reduced to grabbing time at work and poaching from a neighbor.
Bleep that for a game of toy soldiers.
