After the fireworks.
Nov. 23rd, 2004 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaLet's all sing along!
BT are pigfuckers
BT will fuck you up
BT need the Red Hot Poker of Enlightenment
Being less crap than NTL is not enough
The nice BT person ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
redcountess spoke to on Friday did not schedule an engineer for Monday morning at 7am. No, he just set the 'required' time to Monday morning at 7am; the engineer was actually scheduled for Tuesday 30th (that's next week) at 10am. What a clever and helpful fellow! Liz called again yesterday morning, after we'd gotten up at 6:30am for nothing, and used the s3kr1t Telco Call-Centre Cabal Codewords to get an actual engineer who will actually connect the line and enable a telephone service scheduled for Friday morning. Then work can order our DSL.
(There's actually an NTL cable here, and Liz is tempted for the telly, but their broadband, fast as it is, is nothing like reliable enough for being on call. arkady's experience of them in St Albans seems to show that they are as inept as can be expected at running an ISP.)
Arkady and I finished cleaning the flat and retrieving the last of our stuff. It's now cleaner than it was when we moved in, and this only shows up the damage more. Arkady also went feral on the garden.
We went out to Tottenham Hale last night and bought a fridge (to be delivered tomorrow) and a toaster from Comet. LIDL is definitely the supermarket they have in Hell. I shudder to think what discount weissbier tastes like.
The new flat feels like home. The only vaguely citrusy aspect is damp in the front bedroom; frequent calls to the landlord are in progress.
I am at work today. I shall be revelling in sitting on my arse all day and not packing, carrying or cleaning any item whatsoever.
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(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:55 am (UTC)Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 04:48 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 04:52 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 05:57 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 06:44 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 07:05 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 07:08 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 08:28 am (UTC)This means that around Christmas (this means NOW) they are stuffed with lebkuchen, pfeffernuessen, and other lovely German biscuits I cannot spell but will devour wholesale until diabetic shock sets in.
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Date: 2004-11-23 08:34 am (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 11:35 pm (UTC)Re: Ostalgie-a-go-go
Date: 2004-11-23 10:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:53 am (UTC)Glad the moving's completed and you can begin to relax a bit.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:56 am (UTC)(Do you get broadband free with NTL telly? If so, we might conceivably have both.)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 01:00 pm (UTC)So that means if you go for DSL plus NTL TV then you'll end up paying for two phone lines (one BT and one NTL).
AIUI many of the reliability problems with cable modem service are down to the poor state of the HFC networks they inherrited. So it really depends on which cable franchise your area was in originally and how good a job they did. (And in some cases whether the area was cabled in the early days when the local cable co was trying to spend money doing things right, or in the later days when they got into financial difficulties and were trying to do network build-out on the cheap).
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 05:00 am (UTC)Go for Zen Internet.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 05:05 am (UTC)I must say that Bulldog's 4Mbit offering is most tempting as well. Hopefully they can run an ISP. I know one clueful person who works there.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 05:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-25 11:25 am (UTC)*dies* please? I beg of you? as an active member of the cPanel community - and one that has many friends in said community that work for that
companyabomination, I can tell you that they are sh1t. Well... they're good if you don't mind your intarweb going 'later guys, I'm out' every 20 minutes or so... actually, on second thought, I retract that, they are just shit. Plain, easy going, laid back shit, with a capital F.U.So please, I beg of you, please don't go with Bulldog. Please?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:44 am (UTC)I'll probably go with BCN when I eventually get round to broadband.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:48 am (UTC)I just don't see the point paying a £60 installation fee when I suspect I'll be moving house next summer. I'm also not convinced my computer would cope with the extra modem (you've heard how tempremental it is - adding more things that could go wrong to it would be silly).
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-25 11:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 05:02 am (UTC)In particular, I'm put off by the way the Luton NTL proxy (transparent, of course) would just ... stop working ... for a couple of days. Could they bypass the inactive proxy? Could they fix it in less than two days? Could they provide anyone who, after half an hour in the support queue, could even acknowledge something was wrong, let alone what it was? You have one guess on each of these.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 03:14 pm (UTC)I don't think I've seen that for a year or so now. They also seem to have made good progress on the ridiculously over-enthusiastic caching, which would keep old versions of frequently updated pages for weeks.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-25 11:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-24 04:06 am (UTC)And the 1mbit/s service I originally signed up for is now at 1.5mbit/s, and soon to be 2mbit/s. All for the same price.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 05:22 am (UTC)If you're poor and want decent quality you go to Aldi. They buy good quality in huge amounts and sell it cheap enough for people on benefits, students and others who have a tight budget.
If you can't even afford Aldi and don't mind bread bulked up with sawdust you go to Lidl...
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:05 am (UTC)Oh, and I can get 1Mb routed ASDL for £35/month. NTL put the price up to £37.99 and then gave me 1.5Mb, which I don't need as much as I need a no-NAT config at home.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:11 am (UTC)Golgifrincian Telecom on line 2, they need you to do some computer moves and telephone sanitizing.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:24 am (UTC)Although actually I should try and clean out the last year of backed up articles in the submissions queue before I advertise that site too much...
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 06:36 am (UTC)I refuse to consider any of the crap that purports to be 'food' in there as being anything of the sort.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 07:08 am (UTC)I don't want cheap booze. I want drinkable booze that is also preferably cheap, but the drinkability comes first.
Mind you, the schnapps selection was severely tempting.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 07:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-25 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-23 08:33 am (UTC)(or commercial, I never did come up with an expansion of "MCI" to match "Clueless and Witless")
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Date: 2004-11-23 04:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-25 11:17 am (UTC)