Oh what a night!
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James T. Johnson wrote: Sounds you need to move to the States (or Canada), David I don't know about the States of Canada, but unless this country get's it's fingers out of all those arses then as soon as I am confident I will be able to support myself I will be moving to the commercialised success of the Netherlands. Living costs are much lower then in the UK, and the demand for IT contractors is high as there are none natively. Plus it is only a short flight from England so I could commute back and forth at weekends, etc, to keep in touch with my friends. Come to think of it - why am I still living in the UK? ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
David Wulff wrote: then as soon as I am confident I will be able to support myself I will be moving to the commercialised success of the Netherlands. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I've been extremely jealous of the Netherlands when it comes to internet access for over 2 years now :-P James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book, One brown mouse sitting in a cage." "One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978
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Hoo boy!! I sort of know how you feel. I was having dialup connection problems a while back. Nothing like getting dropped 95% into an unresumable d/l. The thing is, here in SA, we have a service where we pay a little extra each month, and after about an hour the call becomes 'free'. if you can stay connected that is :| Before I signed up for this 'service', I never had any connection troubles, hardly ever got dropped. But after, just about every day, I would be dropped a number of times, funnily enough, it always seemed to be around when the call would no longer cost me anything. I was pissed, it seemed as though the telecoms provider was doing it on purpose. :suss: To cut the story short, I bitched about it, and they sent someone out to test the lines, and they recommened I get a new extension cable for the modem. No problems lately, so far... :suss:
Bruce Duncan - Digital Delirium
Hi, I'm Bruce, and I suffer from VB.
Bruce Duncan wrote: they recommened I get a new extension cable for the modem. I suppose there's no harm in trying that too - I'll try and call into PC World on the way home tonight and pick one up. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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Foreword: please note that this post may contain multiple expletives used in an offensive manor. Although I will try to censor them out myself, a few may slip through un-fucking-noticed. Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and their web-enabled world. I wanted to download the Internet Development SDK (Version 6.0) build environment, totalling 1.6 MB. With supporting required core and setup files, that totalled 30 MB or so. Fine, no problem (uck), I’ll just click download and go and watch a video for two hours while it completes. I come back after two hours (I checked in every twenty minutes or so all the way through the film), to find BT had cut my unlimited, unmetered connection at two hours and zero seconds. Approximately 5 minutes before Microsoft’s web-based installer would have completed the files downloads. Great! Hell it’s better than great, it’s phuking brilliant. 1.6 MB of files I actually want, and after 2 hours on my phone bill at 1.5 pence a minute (off peak), I lost the whole damned lot. I am now thinking that I have had enough, so I dial in again, this time to a national rate dial-up ISP I have an account with for the odd occasion I actually need a reliable connection with at least 5 kbps. Now as I go through the process of selecting the Internet Development SDK again, I think to myself - surely Microsoft would be clever enough to allow this web-based crap to auto resume form its previous location. Sadly I soon realised this was not so. So I go back to my TV and sit through what is quite possibly the crapest and most boring film I have ever seen. Yes, worse than JP3. I come back afterwards, and as luck would have it my connection is still active and it looks like I have about 20 minutes left to wait. Wow - everything is going well for a while. Then before my very eye’s I see the dial-up connection dialog appear telling me it will attempt to re-establish the connection because it was cut off. WTF? Is some bead counter from the BT exchange sitting their pulling the plug at the last moment deliberately? Was the £5.92 this call cost me not enough for them? (cost according to the BT website). Yet again the Installer was unable to resume. Now I will not retry, and instead will have to take advantage of those of you kind enough to respond to my plea in the lounge. So, to justify this post not appearing the lounge for a change, I will repeat... Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and
David Wulff wrote: And I am not a short tempered or psychotic guy. Could have fooled me. Want a job at the Post Office? Seriously, though, I can recall my days on dialup - that sucked! The first time I downloaded an update to IE (I think it was when the 4.01 version was released) it took 14 hours to download. My telco dropped my connection every 40 minutes or so, but would not admit they had a problem. A couple of weeks back I downloaded the Platform SDK. It took 15 minutes. Bliss....
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Foreword: please note that this post may contain multiple expletives used in an offensive manor. Although I will try to censor them out myself, a few may slip through un-fucking-noticed. Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and their web-enabled world. I wanted to download the Internet Development SDK (Version 6.0) build environment, totalling 1.6 MB. With supporting required core and setup files, that totalled 30 MB or so. Fine, no problem (uck), I’ll just click download and go and watch a video for two hours while it completes. I come back after two hours (I checked in every twenty minutes or so all the way through the film), to find BT had cut my unlimited, unmetered connection at two hours and zero seconds. Approximately 5 minutes before Microsoft’s web-based installer would have completed the files downloads. Great! Hell it’s better than great, it’s phuking brilliant. 1.6 MB of files I actually want, and after 2 hours on my phone bill at 1.5 pence a minute (off peak), I lost the whole damned lot. I am now thinking that I have had enough, so I dial in again, this time to a national rate dial-up ISP I have an account with for the odd occasion I actually need a reliable connection with at least 5 kbps. Now as I go through the process of selecting the Internet Development SDK again, I think to myself - surely Microsoft would be clever enough to allow this web-based crap to auto resume form its previous location. Sadly I soon realised this was not so. So I go back to my TV and sit through what is quite possibly the crapest and most boring film I have ever seen. Yes, worse than JP3. I come back afterwards, and as luck would have it my connection is still active and it looks like I have about 20 minutes left to wait. Wow - everything is going well for a while. Then before my very eye’s I see the dial-up connection dialog appear telling me it will attempt to re-establish the connection because it was cut off. WTF? Is some bead counter from the BT exchange sitting their pulling the plug at the last moment deliberately? Was the £5.92 this call cost me not enough for them? (cost according to the BT website). Yet again the Installer was unable to resume. Now I will not retry, and instead will have to take advantage of those of you kind enough to respond to my plea in the lounge. So, to justify this post not appearing the lounge for a change, I will repeat... Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and
Why don´t you get a DSL connection Dave ? Here in Brazil its not much expensive (and most of tech things in 3th world are expensive for 3th worlders)... I can´t believe it´s so expensive in UK. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
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Why don´t you get a DSL connection Dave ? Here in Brazil its not much expensive (and most of tech things in 3th world are expensive for 3th worlders)... I can´t believe it´s so expensive in UK. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
It's not a case of choosing not to get it, it's a case of not being able to. DSL is simply not avaialble in most of the UK, and BT have no plans to provide it in my area. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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It's not a case of choosing not to get it, it's a case of not being able to. DSL is simply not avaialble in most of the UK, and BT have no plans to provide it in my area. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
David Wulff wrote: DSL is simply not avaialble in most of the UK, and BT have no plans to provide it in my area. Wow ! I thought that this kinda thing only happen in 3th world. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
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Foreword: please note that this post may contain multiple expletives used in an offensive manor. Although I will try to censor them out myself, a few may slip through un-fucking-noticed. Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and their web-enabled world. I wanted to download the Internet Development SDK (Version 6.0) build environment, totalling 1.6 MB. With supporting required core and setup files, that totalled 30 MB or so. Fine, no problem (uck), I’ll just click download and go and watch a video for two hours while it completes. I come back after two hours (I checked in every twenty minutes or so all the way through the film), to find BT had cut my unlimited, unmetered connection at two hours and zero seconds. Approximately 5 minutes before Microsoft’s web-based installer would have completed the files downloads. Great! Hell it’s better than great, it’s phuking brilliant. 1.6 MB of files I actually want, and after 2 hours on my phone bill at 1.5 pence a minute (off peak), I lost the whole damned lot. I am now thinking that I have had enough, so I dial in again, this time to a national rate dial-up ISP I have an account with for the odd occasion I actually need a reliable connection with at least 5 kbps. Now as I go through the process of selecting the Internet Development SDK again, I think to myself - surely Microsoft would be clever enough to allow this web-based crap to auto resume form its previous location. Sadly I soon realised this was not so. So I go back to my TV and sit through what is quite possibly the crapest and most boring film I have ever seen. Yes, worse than JP3. I come back afterwards, and as luck would have it my connection is still active and it looks like I have about 20 minutes left to wait. Wow - everything is going well for a while. Then before my very eye’s I see the dial-up connection dialog appear telling me it will attempt to re-establish the connection because it was cut off. WTF? Is some bead counter from the BT exchange sitting their pulling the plug at the last moment deliberately? Was the £5.92 this call cost me not enough for them? (cost according to the BT website). Yet again the Installer was unable to resume. Now I will not retry, and instead will have to take advantage of those of you kind enough to respond to my plea in the lounge. So, to justify this post not appearing the lounge for a change, I will repeat... Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and
David Wulff wrote: If Microsoft wants to do something good with their billions, they could use it to upgrade the first worlds’ telecommunications networks to at least a somewhat sub-standard and reasonably acceptable level. One question, do we really want Microsoft controlling another aspect of our lives? :confused: Nick Parker
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David Wulff wrote: If Microsoft wants to do something good with their billions, they could use it to upgrade the first worlds’ telecommunications networks to at least a somewhat sub-standard and reasonably acceptable level. One question, do we really want Microsoft controlling another aspect of our lives? :confused: Nick Parker
To be honest, I really wouldn't care. Sun Corporation -- hell Redhat -- would do a better job than BT Group have. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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David Wulff wrote: DSL is simply not avaialble in most of the UK, and BT have no plans to provide it in my area. Wow ! I thought that this kinda thing only happen in 3th world. Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
Mauricio Ritter wrote: Wow ! I thought that this kinda thing only happen in 3th world. What did you expect? Britain is devloving - we have reached our peak, and we are sliding back down again. :(( ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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Foreword: please note that this post may contain multiple expletives used in an offensive manor. Although I will try to censor them out myself, a few may slip through un-fucking-noticed. Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and their web-enabled world. I wanted to download the Internet Development SDK (Version 6.0) build environment, totalling 1.6 MB. With supporting required core and setup files, that totalled 30 MB or so. Fine, no problem (uck), I’ll just click download and go and watch a video for two hours while it completes. I come back after two hours (I checked in every twenty minutes or so all the way through the film), to find BT had cut my unlimited, unmetered connection at two hours and zero seconds. Approximately 5 minutes before Microsoft’s web-based installer would have completed the files downloads. Great! Hell it’s better than great, it’s phuking brilliant. 1.6 MB of files I actually want, and after 2 hours on my phone bill at 1.5 pence a minute (off peak), I lost the whole damned lot. I am now thinking that I have had enough, so I dial in again, this time to a national rate dial-up ISP I have an account with for the odd occasion I actually need a reliable connection with at least 5 kbps. Now as I go through the process of selecting the Internet Development SDK again, I think to myself - surely Microsoft would be clever enough to allow this web-based crap to auto resume form its previous location. Sadly I soon realised this was not so. So I go back to my TV and sit through what is quite possibly the crapest and most boring film I have ever seen. Yes, worse than JP3. I come back afterwards, and as luck would have it my connection is still active and it looks like I have about 20 minutes left to wait. Wow - everything is going well for a while. Then before my very eye’s I see the dial-up connection dialog appear telling me it will attempt to re-establish the connection because it was cut off. WTF? Is some bead counter from the BT exchange sitting their pulling the plug at the last moment deliberately? Was the £5.92 this call cost me not enough for them? (cost according to the BT website). Yet again the Installer was unable to resume. Now I will not retry, and instead will have to take advantage of those of you kind enough to respond to my plea in the lounge. So, to justify this post not appearing the lounge for a change, I will repeat... Phuk. Phuk England, Phuk British Telecom and Phuk Microsoft and