Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I hope to be back soon!

I'm about to attempt the most challenging technical feat of my life - changing to wireless. I've had problems with broadband for a few months; BT haven't been able to solve them so I'm going to have a go myself. If I'm not back within a month I hope someone will come and rescue me!

3 comments:

  1. It didn't work! When I tried to install the wireless adapter into my PC it went crazy - warning lights, whistles and bells telling me that the adapter would destabilise my system. So, is it back to the shop for a different adapter or carry on losing my phone connection when online?

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  2. Can you get them to come and install it for you? If you complain hard enough to BT, they might.

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  3. Progress report on my communication with BT:
    Me: My Broadband connection has worked for a year, now it doesn't.
    BT: We'll put you through to our broadband expert.
    Broadband expert based in India with very poor English: Your Broadband connection is working, no problem. You need a telephone engineer.
    BT telephone engineer: Well, you are speaking on the phone so it is obviously working. You need a Broadband expert.
    Me: (10th attempt) The phone line works alone, the Broadband works alone, they won't work together. Please help.
    BT manager: If our engineer comes to your house he will plug his phoneline tester in and it will work so we will charge you for a wrongful callout. We have never heard of this problem before. Sorry we can't help but, yes, we will continue to charge you for our services.

    Any further suggestions? I don't know if another service provider would be any better because they all work through the phone line don't they? There isn't any cable in the village.

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