**Serious** BT ranting alert
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Go through the local phone book, phoning people & pretending to be a BT rep. Advise them in an annoying, faux polite voice not to register, as rubes such as themselves do not have need of reliable connections, and it would be better for everyone if BT was free to expend their resources in [insert locally despised location here] instead.
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Shog9 Actually I use to find learning in bars when drinking really useful. It sort of makes a language liquid. - Colin Davies, Thinking in English?
That would never work, unfortunately, in an area where we routinely beat off Jehova's Witnesses with large sticks. * Just a little joke for all your Americanismisms
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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That would never work, unfortunately, in an area where we routinely beat off Jehova's Witnesses with large sticks. * Just a little joke for all your Americanismisms
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
What have you got against Jehova's Witnesses with small sticks? They must feel so left out... *****an even smaller joke for the second 'ism'
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Shog9 Actually I use to find learning in bars when drinking really useful. It sort of makes a language liquid. - Colin Davies, Thinking in English?
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What have you got against Jehova's Witnesses with small sticks? They must feel so left out... *****an even smaller joke for the second 'ism'
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Shog9 Actually I use to find learning in bars when drinking really useful. It sort of makes a language liquid. - Colin Davies, Thinking in English?
I'm missing out :-( Jehova's Witnesses don't have any sticks here. :-( Maybe I can park up near there place of worship and give them some. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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David Stone wrote: Ooooh. The anger rating went up It is above zero for the third time since its conception. I believe from memory the other two messages were related to Bastard Telecom too... David Stone wrote: Or, you could, during the middle of the night, hijack other people's phone lines and register them as wanting it ** David picks up his laptop and sneeks down the street to the BT access panel in the pavement. A crowbar and a quick bit of force later and he is pluggining his modem consecutively into each phone line for the entire Pinnex Moor area of Tiverton and registering with BT... :suss: **
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
David Wulff wrote: he is pluggining his modem consecutively into each phone line I was just going to suggest that. Lacking a laptop, you could reroute the lines, one at a time, to your house with a pair of alligator clip jumper leads. A New Adjective Is Born!
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Straight from the horses arse... ---- For Telephone Number 01884 ****** on Exchange TIVERTON The checker indicates that Broadband is not currently available in your area. A detailed review of your exchange has been completed and has concluded that enabling your exchange would not seem viable without further knowledge of possible demand. BT has introduced a demand registration scheme which lets people register, via a service provider, their interest in buying ADSL. In this way the local demand will become clearer and will influence the roll-out programme. Following a review of this exchange, a trigger level of 700 registrations of interest has been set. If this trigger level is reached the exchange will be upgraded. For more information regarding pre-registration and to monitor progress please click here A preliminary check on your line suggests that if Broadband were available in your area you should be able to receive Broadband ADSL at speeds from 512kilobits per second to 2Megabits per second downstream and 256kilobits per second upstream. Thank you for your interest. ---- I clicked the link and found the level of interest at 23 out of 700. That is 3.2% of the way. :(( We have one of the worlds biggest news agencies sited locally less than a mile from my own house (Reuters) and yet the demand is supposedly low. I'm not sure where they got these figures form because I personally have signed up at least 200 people form the phonebook... :suss: Well maybe not the last part - sadly - they use some cookie-less, ip-less and session-less method to track requests, even from different phone numbers, and I can't get it to work. ;P What should I do to force my lazy townsfolk off their arses? Seriously? Maybe a targetted flyer campaign round the business park would help? A letter to the editor of the local rag? A big wad of cash to the local battered dwarvish society? Everyone is complaining about it, but it seems only 22 actually had the motivation to get up and actually do something. :mad: Fûcking dwarves.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
But Dave - even when your exchange is ADSL enabled, the Broadband gods WILL have deemed that your line isn't good enough - you'll be 1dB outside the line signal requirements :-D Speaking as someone who knows the pain - I live in Derby, modern estate, etc etc & I find I've got a line length of 5.9km - 0.4km outside the cut-off for RADSL :(( - and knowing where the exchange is, I must be closer than 90% of the people on my estate - WTF, BT?!?!?! Strangely, a 56k dial-up seems to get slower once you know there's no other option... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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Ooooh. The anger rating went up. :-D I would hold some people hostage until BT agrees to install ADSL in your area. Or, you could, during the middle of the night, hijack other people's phone lines and register them as wanting it. Or, knock on your neighbor's door in the middle of the night and threaten them with an aluminum bat until they register. :laugh: David Stone But Clinton wasn't a predictable, boring, aging, lying, eloquent, maintainer-of-the-status-quo. He was a predictable, boring-but-trying-to-look-hip, aging-and-fat-but-seemingly-oblivious-to-it, lying-but-in-sadly-blatant-ways, not-eloquent-but-trying-to-make-up-for-it-by-talking-even-more, bringer-in-of-scary-and-potentially-dangerous-new-policies. And there was also Al Gore. It just wasn't *right*. Shog9
Why an aluminium bat ? Is your neghbour allergic to aluminium ? :~ Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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David Wulff wrote: he is pluggining his modem consecutively into each phone line I was just going to suggest that. Lacking a laptop, you could reroute the lines, one at a time, to your house with a pair of alligator clip jumper leads. A New Adjective Is Born!
I detect a certain amount of "Roger has done this before" with that reply... :suss: :) Roger Wright wrote: A New Adjective Is Born! I get redirected to http://homer.perfectpresence.com/suspended.page/. What did you submit?
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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But Dave - even when your exchange is ADSL enabled, the Broadband gods WILL have deemed that your line isn't good enough - you'll be 1dB outside the line signal requirements :-D Speaking as someone who knows the pain - I live in Derby, modern estate, etc etc & I find I've got a line length of 5.9km - 0.4km outside the cut-off for RADSL :(( - and knowing where the exchange is, I must be closer than 90% of the people on my estate - WTF, BT?!?!?! Strangely, a 56k dial-up seems to get slower once you know there's no other option... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
Ouch - that is really really unlucky! Stuart Dootson wrote: Strangely, a 56k dial-up seems to get slower once you know there's no other option... Don't I know it. :((
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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I detect a certain amount of "Roger has done this before" with that reply... :suss: :) Roger Wright wrote: A New Adjective Is Born! I get redirected to http://homer.perfectpresence.com/suspended.page/. What did you submit?
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
David Wulff wrote: I detect a certain amount of "Roger has done this before" with that reply... Er, perhaps this might not be a good place to discuss that:~ David Wulff wrote: I get redirected to http://homer.perfectpresence.com/suspended.page/. What did you submit? I just noticed that a few minutes ago. On my machine, it flips out in a loop, requesting this address over and over again. It looks like the site has been shut down - hopefully it will be temporary. I submitted "microcephalic" - (adj) possessed of one millionth part of a normal brain. I wonder if Paul is having the same trouble accessing his submital? A New Adjective Is Born!
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That would never work, unfortunately, in an area where we routinely beat off Jehova's Witnesses with large sticks. * Just a little joke for all your Americanismisms
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.