Dammit, AT&T.
Oct. 16th, 2011 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishI have had a long and annoying struggle with upgrading my internet, or should I say, helping SOMEONE in his mad scheme to get faster internet over the pokey but reliable internet that already worked.
I could go on, but it would only swiftly become a rant with no redeeming humor. It's the same old story of "We thought this would be simple and nice to have, but it's hard to get and not worth the effort."
The end result is internet that, while hooked up properly for the first time in two weeks (after six technician visits and two days of my time), is now noticeably slower than the "slow" internet setup we had before that took no installation and had worked for two years. And technician #7 will be showing up later today.
However! On the redeeming side, I finally got the intestinal fortitude to put my foot down and make that SOMEONE be the new pointperson for handling this, so while the internet might be going in and out again, I don't have to deal with it firsthand anymore. (I actually got a call a few hours ago, that AT&T was running ahead of schedule and could they come earlier? Nope! I have planns, suckers! which I will not be canceling for you, unlike the first two times you decided to drop by and stay for four hours.) I'm willing to call that a win at the moment. I expect that by the end of the day we will get back to the first service we had, if possible, and that will be the end of that.
In other news, I'm learning Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian to impress the future in-laws and it's going quite nicely. I think that the class introducing more grammar than they need to, right off the bat, but I've got German, Latin, and Greek under my belt so the stuff that is throwing other students off is old hat to me.
I have a thesis that I need to work on, but it's not happening today- the internet is too pokey for me to be able to do the kind of heavy research that I need to do.
I could go on, but it would only swiftly become a rant with no redeeming humor. It's the same old story of "We thought this would be simple and nice to have, but it's hard to get and not worth the effort."
The end result is internet that, while hooked up properly for the first time in two weeks (after six technician visits and two days of my time), is now noticeably slower than the "slow" internet setup we had before that took no installation and had worked for two years. And technician #7 will be showing up later today.
However! On the redeeming side, I finally got the intestinal fortitude to put my foot down and make that SOMEONE be the new pointperson for handling this, so while the internet might be going in and out again, I don't have to deal with it firsthand anymore. (I actually got a call a few hours ago, that AT&T was running ahead of schedule and could they come earlier? Nope! I have planns, suckers! which I will not be canceling for you, unlike the first two times you decided to drop by and stay for four hours.) I'm willing to call that a win at the moment. I expect that by the end of the day we will get back to the first service we had, if possible, and that will be the end of that.
In other news, I'm learning Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian to impress the future in-laws and it's going quite nicely. I think that the class introducing more grammar than they need to, right off the bat, but I've got German, Latin, and Greek under my belt so the stuff that is throwing other students off is old hat to me.
I have a thesis that I need to work on, but it's not happening today- the internet is too pokey for me to be able to do the kind of heavy research that I need to do.
