Positively Positive
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Aaah who the fuck am I kidding, no one will believe it's me if I posted something happy and chirpy, Mustafa still doesn't believe it was me who said I was hopping off the alcohol for a while. Anyway on with my bitch. 24-09-2009 I fill in an online form with my ISP (of 4.5 years) to switch over to ADSL2+ without moving my phone over to them. I stuff up the date I wanted and entered 24-10-2009 (tomorrow) by accident. Rang and emailed them to see if I could get the date moved forward. 1 reply said yes the other said no. They claim a downtime of only minutes if I had gone with the plan that puts my phone with them. When explaining about the change over and dates all will work, I was told that it takes 7 - 10 days to get the new service connected (very difficult going to the exchange and unplugging from the old DSLAM and plugging into the new). Me being sensible and pragmatic reckon even a moron would factor in the lead time when organising the switch over and would only take down my ADSL1 connection when the ADSL2+ connection was imminent and to be connected the same day. So I spoke to said moron today to see how this was all going. He took ages to find the details of my request and advised it would take the 7 - 10 days and my current service was to be turned off tomorrow. Now I not only need the internet for the Wife, kids and Mother In-law but I need it for work too. I kindly informed moron of this fact and he has asked I send an email, which I have. If I haven't heard from him within an hour I'm on the phone again. If still no joy it's about 30-45 minutes to get to their office from here. While moron may not be there in person (offshoring and all) I will have have some poor bastard by the throat. I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK>
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Working in the Telco industry I can understand their assertion about it being much much more involved if you don't switch over your phone line as well. Having said that there are two kinds of guys who do this work (the cabling) - retards who can screw up anything at the drop of a hat, and evil b*****s who will try and figure out some way that they can scam something out of every piece of work they do.
I just love Koalas - they go great with Bacon.
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Working in the Telco industry I can understand their assertion about it being much much more involved if you don't switch over your phone line as well. Having said that there are two kinds of guys who do this work (the cabling) - retards who can screw up anything at the drop of a hat, and evil b*****s who will try and figure out some way that they can scam something out of every piece of work they do.
I just love Koalas - they go great with Bacon.
Lee Humphries wrote:
Working in the Telco industry I can understand their assertion about it being much much more involved if you don't switch over your phone line as well. Having said that there are two kinds of guys who do this work (the cabling) - retards who can screw up anything at the drop of a hat, and evil b*****s who will try and figure out some way that they can scam something out of every piece of work they do.
But my ADSL1 service is with the same provider my ADSL2+ will be with and my phone is staying where it has been for 13ish years. Can't see why the problem or the hold up.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Aaah who the fuck am I kidding, no one will believe it's me if I posted something happy and chirpy, Mustafa still doesn't believe it was me who said I was hopping off the alcohol for a while. Anyway on with my bitch. 24-09-2009 I fill in an online form with my ISP (of 4.5 years) to switch over to ADSL2+ without moving my phone over to them. I stuff up the date I wanted and entered 24-10-2009 (tomorrow) by accident. Rang and emailed them to see if I could get the date moved forward. 1 reply said yes the other said no. They claim a downtime of only minutes if I had gone with the plan that puts my phone with them. When explaining about the change over and dates all will work, I was told that it takes 7 - 10 days to get the new service connected (very difficult going to the exchange and unplugging from the old DSLAM and plugging into the new). Me being sensible and pragmatic reckon even a moron would factor in the lead time when organising the switch over and would only take down my ADSL1 connection when the ADSL2+ connection was imminent and to be connected the same day. So I spoke to said moron today to see how this was all going. He took ages to find the details of my request and advised it would take the 7 - 10 days and my current service was to be turned off tomorrow. Now I not only need the internet for the Wife, kids and Mother In-law but I need it for work too. I kindly informed moron of this fact and he has asked I send an email, which I have. If I haven't heard from him within an hour I'm on the phone again. If still no joy it's about 30-45 minutes to get to their office from here. While moron may not be there in person (offshoring and all) I will have have some poor bastard by the throat. I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK>
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Get some SA pigeons. :)
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Aaah who the fuck am I kidding, no one will believe it's me if I posted something happy and chirpy, Mustafa still doesn't believe it was me who said I was hopping off the alcohol for a while. Anyway on with my bitch. 24-09-2009 I fill in an online form with my ISP (of 4.5 years) to switch over to ADSL2+ without moving my phone over to them. I stuff up the date I wanted and entered 24-10-2009 (tomorrow) by accident. Rang and emailed them to see if I could get the date moved forward. 1 reply said yes the other said no. They claim a downtime of only minutes if I had gone with the plan that puts my phone with them. When explaining about the change over and dates all will work, I was told that it takes 7 - 10 days to get the new service connected (very difficult going to the exchange and unplugging from the old DSLAM and plugging into the new). Me being sensible and pragmatic reckon even a moron would factor in the lead time when organising the switch over and would only take down my ADSL1 connection when the ADSL2+ connection was imminent and to be connected the same day. So I spoke to said moron today to see how this was all going. He took ages to find the details of my request and advised it would take the 7 - 10 days and my current service was to be turned off tomorrow. Now I not only need the internet for the Wife, kids and Mother In-law but I need it for work too. I kindly informed moron of this fact and he has asked I send an email, which I have. If I haven't heard from him within an hour I'm on the phone again. If still no joy it's about 30-45 minutes to get to their office from here. While moron may not be there in person (offshoring and all) I will have have some poor bastard by the throat. I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK>
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK
I'm moving, soon, to a house about 8km away. Going from past experience, it will take about three months to get an Internet connection up. And it's farming country. Not many cows have WiFi connections I can hack (but I only need to find one!) Do I care? Not really. There are plenty of other things to be happy about, not least of which being that, since I won't be a six-minute walk from work, any more, I'll get more exercise (which I badly need), and cycling through a forest is a great way to start and end the working day. Hey, this up-beat, positive stuff is infectious!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Aaah who the fuck am I kidding, no one will believe it's me if I posted something happy and chirpy, Mustafa still doesn't believe it was me who said I was hopping off the alcohol for a while. Anyway on with my bitch. 24-09-2009 I fill in an online form with my ISP (of 4.5 years) to switch over to ADSL2+ without moving my phone over to them. I stuff up the date I wanted and entered 24-10-2009 (tomorrow) by accident. Rang and emailed them to see if I could get the date moved forward. 1 reply said yes the other said no. They claim a downtime of only minutes if I had gone with the plan that puts my phone with them. When explaining about the change over and dates all will work, I was told that it takes 7 - 10 days to get the new service connected (very difficult going to the exchange and unplugging from the old DSLAM and plugging into the new). Me being sensible and pragmatic reckon even a moron would factor in the lead time when organising the switch over and would only take down my ADSL1 connection when the ADSL2+ connection was imminent and to be connected the same day. So I spoke to said moron today to see how this was all going. He took ages to find the details of my request and advised it would take the 7 - 10 days and my current service was to be turned off tomorrow. Now I not only need the internet for the Wife, kids and Mother In-law but I need it for work too. I kindly informed moron of this fact and he has asked I send an email, which I have. If I haven't heard from him within an hour I'm on the phone again. If still no joy it's about 30-45 minutes to get to their office from here. While moron may not be there in person (offshoring and all) I will have have some poor bastard by the throat. I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK>
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
You've just confirmed to me that moronic ISPs are universal. I've had exactly the same experience. I learned the hard way that they couldn't add new info on a workorder, but instead they added a new workorder for every phonecall I made. Then they fixed the jobs according to FIFO. I was without internet connection for almost four weeks a couple of years ago. It was supposed to be for an hour!
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Lee Humphries wrote:
Working in the Telco industry I can understand their assertion about it being much much more involved if you don't switch over your phone line as well. Having said that there are two kinds of guys who do this work (the cabling) - retards who can screw up anything at the drop of a hat, and evil b*****s who will try and figure out some way that they can scam something out of every piece of work they do.
But my ADSL1 service is with the same provider my ADSL2+ will be with and my phone is staying where it has been for 13ish years. Can't see why the problem or the hold up.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
But my ADSL1 service is with the same provider my ADSL2+ will be with and my phone is staying where it has been for 13ish years. Can't see why the problem or the hold up.
Changing from ADSL1 to ADSL2+ implies changing hardware (yes hardware), there's a chance that the hardware is not in the same physical place. One main problem that we (in the IT industry) keep on forgetting is that at some point real hardware with real physical bits and pieces is involved. It is very complex.
I just love Koalas - they go great with Bacon.
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Aaah who the fuck am I kidding, no one will believe it's me if I posted something happy and chirpy, Mustafa still doesn't believe it was me who said I was hopping off the alcohol for a while. Anyway on with my bitch. 24-09-2009 I fill in an online form with my ISP (of 4.5 years) to switch over to ADSL2+ without moving my phone over to them. I stuff up the date I wanted and entered 24-10-2009 (tomorrow) by accident. Rang and emailed them to see if I could get the date moved forward. 1 reply said yes the other said no. They claim a downtime of only minutes if I had gone with the plan that puts my phone with them. When explaining about the change over and dates all will work, I was told that it takes 7 - 10 days to get the new service connected (very difficult going to the exchange and unplugging from the old DSLAM and plugging into the new). Me being sensible and pragmatic reckon even a moron would factor in the lead time when organising the switch over and would only take down my ADSL1 connection when the ADSL2+ connection was imminent and to be connected the same day. So I spoke to said moron today to see how this was all going. He took ages to find the details of my request and advised it would take the 7 - 10 days and my current service was to be turned off tomorrow. Now I not only need the internet for the Wife, kids and Mother In-law but I need it for work too. I kindly informed moron of this fact and he has asked I send an email, which I have. If I haven't heard from him within an hour I'm on the phone again. If still no joy it's about 30-45 minutes to get to their office from here. While moron may not be there in person (offshoring and all) I will have have some poor bastard by the throat. I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK>
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Josh Gray wrote:
Wow thanks Mick, you're use of the word moron reminded me I've not heard back from the Tivo morons about my replacement remote.
How do you find the Tivo to use and ballpark what did it cost? Got me a Samsung LCD TV the other week when Harvey Norman was giving away 1000 day interest free jobbies. The Mother In-law is still taping her shows on VHS and cause she don't like the black bars either side of the picture expands to full screen so everyone looks like Stewie Griffin. Want to get a DVR but really don't have the dollars but I'm sure I'll talk myself into one soon.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Perhaps I'm totally misunderstanding your needs, but the other reply to this post noting a cost of $650 for a Tivo unit is a little extreme. That's reasonable only if it includes the lifetime service plan. Take a look at TiVo's web specials[^] for a much better deal. I can't say that I'd recommend the Series2 anymore since a lot of providers are eliminating analog service (and thus you wouldn't be able to use the second tuner), but a Series3 (a.k.a. TiVo HD) should suit most people's needs for $200 + service plan (unless you truly desire THX certified quality, which is $450 + service plan) (prices are for refurbs). Of course, TiVo is SO much more than just a DVR. In addition to its recommendation algorithm, it's rapidly becoming an entire entertainment platform for all things video - you can interface directly with Amazon, Blockbuster, Youtube, etc., and though I'm just hoping, probably the likes of Hulu within the near future too. Not to mention the networking capabilities with your other computers in the house for media sharing and the plethora of warranty-voiding hacks out there that greatly increase TiVo's capabilities. No, I don't work for TiVo, and they've never sent me a dime, but I'm one hell of a satisfied customer. TiVo literally changed my life. I've reclaimed countless hours of my life not having to sit through commercials while still having the ability to come and go as I please with the Pause button.
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Perhaps I'm totally misunderstanding your needs, but the other reply to this post noting a cost of $650 for a Tivo unit is a little extreme. That's reasonable only if it includes the lifetime service plan. Take a look at TiVo's web specials[^] for a much better deal. I can't say that I'd recommend the Series2 anymore since a lot of providers are eliminating analog service (and thus you wouldn't be able to use the second tuner), but a Series3 (a.k.a. TiVo HD) should suit most people's needs for $200 + service plan (unless you truly desire THX certified quality, which is $450 + service plan) (prices are for refurbs). Of course, TiVo is SO much more than just a DVR. In addition to its recommendation algorithm, it's rapidly becoming an entire entertainment platform for all things video - you can interface directly with Amazon, Blockbuster, Youtube, etc., and though I'm just hoping, probably the likes of Hulu within the near future too. Not to mention the networking capabilities with your other computers in the house for media sharing and the plethora of warranty-voiding hacks out there that greatly increase TiVo's capabilities. No, I don't work for TiVo, and they've never sent me a dime, but I'm one hell of a satisfied customer. TiVo literally changed my life. I've reclaimed countless hours of my life not having to sit through commercials while still having the ability to come and go as I please with the Pause button.
Homncruse wrote:
Perhaps I'm totally misunderstanding your needs, but the other reply to this post noting a cost of $650 for a Tivo unit is a little extreme.
Yes you are missing something major Homncruse, Josh and I live in Australia so don't get all the nice cheapies you get in America. Also Josh bought the unit about a year ago so prices are probably down now that our dollar is buying about USD$0.92. Thanks for the reply.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote:
I'M NOT GOING WITHOUT INTERNET FOR A DAY LET ALONE MORE THAN A WEEK
Starbucks?
Zhat wrote:
Starbucks?
Australia. Plus wife, kids and mother in-law need access.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004