So much for two weeks.
I now have a phone line as of today - hurrah.
Now I have to wait another two weeks until BT bring forth the ADSL line so my broadband provider (who aren’t BT) can give me my fecking broadband.
I so want to be able to research bloody academic journals at home rather than trecking to my college library on the other side of London - then only to find that all available computers are being used.
Bollocks bollocks bollocksy bollocks.
I want to read peoples blogs, look at LJ communities, go to Vox, upload and look at other peoples photos on Flickr, shoot the dolly breeze at TIB, snipe on eBay… hell life is so virtual these days I feel socially deprived (hmmm, that may be a critical theory essay in the making there.)
See you on 1 November, it seems.
October 18th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
You think that’s bad? I signed up for Broadband with Talktalk in the middle of July. The idiots forgot to put my order through, and so I got shunted to the back of the queue. Eventually, I had a letter from them saying that it should be ready yesterday (17th) but no sign of my modem yet, so I’ve no idea if it’s actually been made live.
Ho hum. Good job I’ve got a 3G card for my laptop which I’ve been using since the beginning of July - or else I’d still be using crappy steam-powered dialup, which I’m lucky to get 34Kbs out of. Technology! Bah!!
October 18th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Oh Caroline that is sheer lunacy! Getting broadband can seem like climbing effing Everest in this country (and I thought Italy was bad)!
As I type this (on steam powered 30KB dial-up) I feel thankful I might - pretty please - get broadband in only two weeks
October 18th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
It’s so shocking that in central london you can’t get broadband in same day! Look forward to seeing you back around more, Bobble!
x
October 19th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Yep it sucketh greatly!
I should look at getting the 3G stuff working actually. In theory we can do that but I need to look up how to set it up…