The story so far.
Saturday, February 12, 2011 2:40:53 PM
Bank notified me that my credit card may have been compromised.
Bank sends me a new credit card.
I forget to notify all those using my credit card for standing orders of the new card details.
'Phone bill arrives. Over a hundred quid. I pay it online, late as usual.
A lot of snow falls.
My 'phone line goes down.
The following day I receive a letter delayed by snow and Christmas post saying that my 'phone will be disconnected because I haven't paid my 'phone bill of eleven quid.
No 'phone and therefore no internet, so I write via paper mail which will doubtless be delayed by snow and Christmas.
New year sales, think I'll buy myself a mi-fi/mo-fi unit. Get turned down because my credit rating is crap.
With no word of warning the telephone comes on again, but still no internet.
Can't find any good reason for the internet not to work, try to contact my ISP. None of their numbers work.
Go to a wi-fi hotspot and discover that my ISP has changed hands. Pick a freephone number and call it.
They hadn't received my monthly sub due to credit card thingie mentioned above.
They emailed me, but I didn't reply.
So they tried to telephone me, but the line was dead.
They assumed that I had done a midnight flit and closed my account. On the same day that the 'phone line was reactivated...
Gave them my new details, got the account reactivated. It still wouldn't work.
Checked everything again. Replaced a few cables here and there, rebooted and reprogrammed the router from scratch.
Finally admitted defeat and telephoned the ISP again. Received a message that they had had an "Outage" and would everyone please turn off their modem and/or router for half an hour then reboot.
Hi.
I'm back.
Bank sends me a new credit card.
I forget to notify all those using my credit card for standing orders of the new card details.
'Phone bill arrives. Over a hundred quid. I pay it online, late as usual.
A lot of snow falls.
My 'phone line goes down.
The following day I receive a letter delayed by snow and Christmas post saying that my 'phone will be disconnected because I haven't paid my 'phone bill of eleven quid.
No 'phone and therefore no internet, so I write via paper mail which will doubtless be delayed by snow and Christmas.
New year sales, think I'll buy myself a mi-fi/mo-fi unit. Get turned down because my credit rating is crap.
With no word of warning the telephone comes on again, but still no internet.
Can't find any good reason for the internet not to work, try to contact my ISP. None of their numbers work.
Go to a wi-fi hotspot and discover that my ISP has changed hands. Pick a freephone number and call it.
They hadn't received my monthly sub due to credit card thingie mentioned above.
They emailed me, but I didn't reply.
So they tried to telephone me, but the line was dead.
They assumed that I had done a midnight flit and closed my account. On the same day that the 'phone line was reactivated...
Gave them my new details, got the account reactivated. It still wouldn't work.
Checked everything again. Replaced a few cables here and there, rebooted and reprogrammed the router from scratch.
Finally admitted defeat and telephoned the ISP again. Received a message that they had had an "Outage" and would everyone please turn off their modem and/or router for half an hour then reboot.
Hi.
I'm back.















Nigel CliffCaptainPenguin # Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:04:01 PM
Deke # Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:48:16 PM
My argument is always the same. What do I do if it breaks down?