There we all were, digging a hole...

They are laying some lines the length of the road here. (fibre optic cable hopefully)

Yesterday my internet was out 8 hours straight while they were digging and has been coming off at regular intervals since.

Saturday morning a ditch but no workers.  Fair enough who wants to work on a Saturday? 

So why then dig a trench on a Friday when nobody is going to be looking at it 'til Monday? 

I've contacted my ISP and we've done a load of messing with a router that is already working perfectly just for the sake of it and our local tech support guy, in Delhi or wherever, informs me there are scheduled works in my area until Tuesday and I will likely have to live with my connection until then but to call back if I'm still having problems at that time, which I'm cool with too.

So how come some cat in India can tell me what is going on but the dig foreman parked in my car park can't?

Still I can get on here to rant during a window of opportunity even if I can't do much else on-line just now. 

That's the main thing...

Time to turn on the DAW and make some music?

I think that's the message I'm supposed to be getting here too...

...for every purpose under heaven... 

They installed fiber to our town some time back. It connects the little telco buildings.... but the "last mile" to the house is copper...and the outrageous price they want to charge me for "faster" internet.... they're out of their cotton picking minds.  It costs THEM nothing more for the higher speed but they sure charge a premium. OK maybe it costs them like a quarter cent more....

I had a phone company sales-rep call the other day... "Hey I want to save you some money on our new packages. ".... OK that sounds good.......

OK, I'm listening.

After letting him ramble on for a few minutes and explain the costs & benefits of the "new cost saving packages" It was about $90 a month for the same speed I'm at now or $99 for the next speed up (before the taxes and fees are added of course) .... he made the mistake of asking what I currently pay on my "old plan".... I told him I topped out at on my current bundled package at about $86 a month max  ALL costs including Long Distance & taxes and fees... he suggested that I stay with the current plan...... YOU THINK?

mgh


wow seems one area we're cheaper in the UK - for broadband and line rental (inc free calls evenings and weekends) at the above speed (max 40mb) is around £30 - $45 per month.

Yeah, but were all afloat on the same little boat. Our entire infrastructure would likely be inadequate in some US states.

Maybe that's one reason. I've noticed it too and wondered why myself.  Another reason maybe that the suppliers largely piggy back on the same networks rather than set up their own to cover the same areas.

 
My current package with Talk Talk is pretty reasonable - £6.99 BB + £12.30 Line Rental a month. That's just under twenty quid for up to a theoretical 24 meg download and a 40GB limit per month.
 
I say theoretical because I'm at the end of a very small branch on the local exchange - it's actually down at about 5MB most of the time although we're promised that our area is to be updated to high-speed sometime this year or next.
 
The phone package itself is pretty reasonable with stuff like free caller display (which I believe BT still charges for) and free calls any time to other Talk Talk users.
 
 

SteveStrummerUK

marcos69


That must be very frustrating.  Here is some music to take your mind completely off the matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v67LpSz6Ck

 
I dig it
 
 

A hole lot of good melodies in that song.  I could get buried in the details but I have to dig myself out and get some work done that I'm covered in.

I'm sure glad you can at least get on here an rant. That had to feel good.  :-)

SteveStrummerUK

marcos69

SteveStrummerUK

marcos69


That must be very frustrating.  Here is some music to take your mind completely off the matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v67LpSz6Ck

I dig it

A hole lot of good melodies in that song.  I could get buried in the details but I have to dig myself out and get some work done that I'm covered in.

 
 
Thanks Mark - that song was a good pick.
 
And your comments are interesting, you always call a spade a spade.
 
 

Well, thanks Steve.  I don't like to bulldoze my way through the forum or dredge up something that should stay buried, but occasionally I do excavate something interesting and like to share my harvest.  I hope I didn't undermine the OP during my drilling.

Jonbouy

I hope I didn't undermine the OP during my drilling.

Not at all.

Although I've had 3 unsuccessful attempts so far at getting the vid to show...

Well, if we were to do it manually then...

Alice In Chains
Down In A Hole

Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb... in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who wont let himself be

Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' control
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all
The stones in their place
I've eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
Of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh I want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers (oh I want to be inside of you)
In a tomb... in bloom
Oh I want to be inside...

Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, outta control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Crg

So why then dig a trench on a Friday when nobody is going to be looking at it 'til Monday?

 
So the trench will be there on monday.

Good point.

I'm only complaining because it doesn't fit my schedule...

I'm sure there's a clause that says they ought to work around my requirements.  If not I think there should be.

Jonbouy

Crg

So why then dig a trench on a Friday when nobody is going to be looking at it 'til Monday?

So the trench will be there on monday.

Good point.

I'm only complaining because it doesn't fit my schedule...

I'm sure there's a clause that says they ought to work around my requirements.  If not I think there should be.

I can only tell you this. The more you complain, the slower it will go.

Janet


That is SO true!

Either that, or they'll say, 'YOU DO IT THEN!'  Then I've got another project.  :(

But I totally agree with Jon, that everyone should work around my requirements.  Now that would be sweet.  lol

I agree with Janet who agrees with Jon that everyone should work around my requirements and schedule.


Now, Jon.......

JB, do you live in Blackburn, Lancashire?
When will they be fixing the hole?
 

YAY!

Looks like they've finished...





Downspeed has dropped 0.5 Mb/s

Upspeed has gone up 0.2Mb/s

I guess the speed will settle back to normal over the next few days.

The connection is staying up now though the engineer not closing the green junction box across the road up until around 6.45 pm.  Now there's devotion to duty.

He must have seen me watching...