Thursday, August 10, 2006
just a bunch of boring-ness
hi, friends and neighbors. I'm sad to say i don't have much in the way of "interesting" news to report. Nothing clever or funny or witty to say. But it's been several days since i last posted and i didn't want to leave anyone thinking i had abandoned my blog again. I'm working on getting involved with the Internets at my place. This is more challenging than you might think. For starters, i don't have a land-line phone, so DSL (or even dial-up!) is not an option for me. I really don't want to pay the $50 a month it costs for cable Internet. That's just silly to me. I know that there are several cheaper cable options, but i also just got a flyer that my 'hood is now up and running on the power grid Internet. At long last, Internet available thru a utility I actually HAVE to have. So, I signed up on Tuesday, the modem arrived today, and all I had to do was plug it in to the wall and connect the ethernet cable to my PC. And that's where the trouble starts.
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I finally made the internet people send someone out to connect it for me. They acted like I was an idiot for not being able to do it, but I'm sorry, when it comes to connecting something like that it is NEVER as easy as they make it seem.
ReplyDeletewell, they are sending someone out for me, too. I called them after trying all the tricks i know, including repairing my LAN connection, etc. The guy said that i can't connect b/c the modem isn't getting a signal. I had to plug it into about 5 different outlets, including one in the basement, and then he gave up and scheduled the service call. So "Joe" the service guy is coming out next Saturday. Rock.
ReplyDeletewe had to have them come out too, but in the end it was FABOO and cheap. they don't offer power line internet at our new house so we have to pay the big bucks. SUCK-O-RAMA.
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