Next thrilling instalment.
Nobody ever said it would be easy, did they? That's good, cos at times, it ain't.
Started off so well on Friday, with the parcel* containing the router in a "safe place" on the front doorstep. Living where I do, it's usually safe enough. :)
* Specially designed to go through the letterbox. Yeah right. :(
Fired up computer, all internet down. No big surprise there, time to fit the new one then. The only minor issue was the :muppet: doing so had dropped the ( correct ) grey telephone cable on the floor, and was trying to use the ( incorrect ) yellow ethernet one. :o:o:o
Having http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/s...forum/rtfm.gif I realised my foolish error, and switched on. By the time I'd walked back to the PC, the router was fully functional! Gasp! The Livebox would have taken ages. Found the signal, typed in the code, and hey presto, I'm ready to rock and roll. Simples.
Dear reader, you know better than that , don't you? Oh yes. :(
Despite being told it would cease to exist at midnight, my Cinderella Freeserve account is still live. :confused: Perhaps when I cancel the DD, that wil stop it, who knows? :daft:
Anyhow, while wandering through the BT site, I notice I've got 10Gb allowance per month. And how long will that last at present usage rates? Five days. :eek:
First thing this morning, call to New Delhi, on a line being shared with a restaurant frying sausages on an industrial scale. Not likely to inspire confidence in a Telecomms company, but ah well. After a lot of confusion, I'm transferred to Bonny Scotland, and a nice lad relieves me of a fiver a month to unleash the full panoply of the Interweb without let or hindrance.
Why am I now thinking " if it ain't broke................................. " ?
P.S. I tried the " Scunthorpe test", and I can now name this place in emails! Whoopee.