God Bless BT: Part II
Well, yesterday I was trying to get the ADSL to work at home as it had been off for a couple of days (I assumed that BT were carrying out work). During my trouble shooting I tried various different sockets around the house, different microfilters and was about to try a different modem when I suddenly thought "I wonder if the phone line itself is working". So I pick up the phone and sure enough there is no dial tone. Nothing. Not a sausage. Rather than sit in a queue for half an hour I have reported it online. Let's see if that actually works.
What is going on with us at the moment? Everything we own seems to be breaking. First my new monitor, then Anne’s Vaio (for the second time) and now our phone line. Still, that's three so it should stop now.
Aahh well. Following the Mornington Crescent rules, as amended by Humphrey in ‘62 with corrections by Stovold in ‘67, if you have the same rulebook as I, you’ll note that in pp265 s5 ss72; regarding the tertiary nature of bad things. It happens.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:24 pmSeems like your luck is about as good as mine! Mine turned around on Wednesday..hopefully yours does too!
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:32 pmWell, it seems that BT had ballsed up onm their records (surprise, surprise). Our line was listed as free so someone had switched it at the junction box. The BT man switched it back today and assured me he would have the records changed.
I then had to do some fettling of our internal wiring to get all the sockets that feed of it in our house working (our internal phone wiring is a little, er, suspect).
Still, we are back up and running now. Having no internet for 4 days was rubbish - I relate to your situation Sara. I don’t know how you coped for so long!
September 24th, 2006 at 4:25 pm