Mutter young 'un's

[Feral007]

Oh I can sympathise. Have nothing but problems here with technology. We live in a mobile blackspot. Our landlline is a 'halfline' so not able to support the internet. In fact, it isn't able to support phone calls sometimes in extreme weather - and we have that. Our phone company has a 3 day wait on phone problems here - because the lines freeze, or the lines overheat and usually recover by 3 days. We have satellite internet - sooooo sloooooow and very expensive. It works in cloudy weather, but just before the clouds come over it cuts out. Prior to getting the satellite we had to plug the phone line in and try to dial up. The most fun I had was when I rang the dial up company to say the internet wasn't working. Can you turn the computer on and try to hook up now madam - well yes I can sonny, but I'll have to hang up to do that.....................Well madam, can I ring you on the mobile and we can talk you thru this..............Well yes you can sonny.......but I'll have to drive 5 kms down the road to answer the phone.........will that work for you pet?
Or the young man on the phone - I live in a mobile blackspot. What's that?

Oh I love technology - I might get sick of it if I actually had access to much of it!

[Two_Sheds]

My tinternet's been up the creek...

Ours used to disappear quite frequently while we were with BT and their "customer service" was utterly useless.

Calls to India failed to rectify the situation, so in exasperation we changed to Sky ... the very first time we lost the Net with Sky, they wanted £180 to send an engineer out to see if there was a fault on our line !

Thinking along the lines of "turn it off, wait, turn it back on again", I turned it all off and went to bed. In the morning, noticed an Open Reach BT van outside. Trotted over, asked if someone had a fault with their internet ...?

Oh yes, he said, but I've fixed it now. Guess what? Ours was fixed too. It's ALWAYS been an outside fault (with the line) yet BT and Sky will never admit it

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

They get a field agent to test line... oh my goodness guess what!? they found a fault...

[RedThorn]

Whoohoo!!!! It look's like it's fixed

[RedThorn]

Scrap that, it's proper broke now. Purely on 3G.. At least I think they found it as it did get real quick before breaking completely

[veggiechicken]

As a mark of respect I've Unliked your previous post instead of liking it!

[Feral007]

Hahaha VC I often wish there was an 'unlike' button as well as a 'like' button

[RedThorn]

ROFL

What are you like

Back in business, even had the phone call to say done

And it's looking good!

[veggiechicken]

Still working, RT? Need to know before I hit the Like button

[Percy T]

I think that these young 'un's are actually taught to try to baffle you on the phone with jargon, just so they can clear as many calls as their quota dicate's in an hour!

[Hilary B]

I wanted to insure Shadow, Petplan have a lovely website, BUT if the dog 'comes to work with you' or you 'work from home', it has to be done on the phone.....
The person on the phone asks a load of standard questions based on the assumption that if you 'go to work' it is in one fixed place (until you change employment) where you interact with other people, and if you 'work from home' you meet clients.
Neither of these applies, I work for OH, who is a Chartered Surveyor doing home surveys for purchasers, a different place every day, and when the dogs come with us (not in hot weather), they wait for us in the car, which is NOT parked in 'employer's car park'.
Of course the person on the other end of the phone (probably in Bombay, based on her accent) cannot comprehend anything that doesn't fit with what is on her sheet of questions. Most of the questions expect a 'yes' or 'no' answer, and for most of them neither is accurate!
This is annoying enough, but since they do not pay any liability claims 'at work' anyway, what does all that matter anyway, and why can't I just fill in the online form????

[snohare]

....Yes, I can see how you might feel hounded, Hilary !

I think this is what Scott Adams, the cartoonist creator of Dilbert, calls a "confusopoly". I was reading one of his books written back in about 97, and he was bang on the money about how big companies, their customer "service" and employee salary structure would go...
It boiled down to either you are regarded top talent and can name your price, or you're totally replaceable with a wage to match; and if you are selling a resource it will be easier to complicate the pricing structure and make it impossible for customers to compare or change, than to actually become more efficient.

[Nicos]

ROFL

What are you like

Back in business, even had the phone call to say done

And it's looking good!

Ha!...don't speak too soon!....

Our friends had a similar problem to us and it's finally been sorted- then a couple of days ago their house got hit by lightning and it's frazzed their router!!!
( back to no phone nor internet access...again!)

[cardiffsteve]

What's that RT?
You're breaking.................u........p........

[donnakebab]

One of my daughters fitted the wireless router, and now lives with a pc, techno addict but works in another business. My son has been a techno, gizmo, programming wizard since he was about 8 years old and we bought him a BBC Micro (that would be around 1983), and works in that area. My other daughter is a tattooist and is still getting the hang of the capabilities of her iphone which takes amazing photo's...she's good at that... she hates computers.

Consequently if we have any probs other than service provider I have two ports of call.

OH is very good at snoring. I just need to harness the energy of the sound waves to power my laptop (sons cast off after upgrading), and it will all be worth it. Can it be done?

[snohare]

OH is very good at snoring. I just need to harness the energy of the sound waves to power my laptop (sons cast off after upgrading), and it will all be worth it. Can it be done?

Oh yes Donna, apparently online speeds of "up to 20MB" can be achieved...

Of course you will need to upgrade your husband - add some extra weight and a bit of alcohol to ensure the PSU runs continuously...