Technology…

…when it works, it’s wonderful; when it doesn’t, it – well – it sucks… to quote our American cousins. 

 

My ADSL line has gone on the blink, so communication with the outside world, for the moment, will be of the message in a bottle variety. I’ve had to resurrect a dial-up modem (which has the speed of a Galapogos tortoise), but at least I can squirt a few bits out into the ether.

 

Hear Ye, hear ye… I shall be withdrawing from the frenetic pace of today’s internet for now. Hopefully, my service provider (KPN) will repair the problem in the course of the next few days. Although, I have to say, I am not convinced. The problem is that my ADSL line is going up and down like a yo-yo. According to the pleasant gentleman on the helpdesk, this will be solved by a new splitter. In which case, why is it that without the splitter involved in the connection at all, I can still see the ADSL line going up and down like a yo-yo? Ho-hum, let’s follow the script… This means that I shall install the new splitter that they will send me on Tuesday, and then report it has made fuck-all difference. Then, once again, on the merry-go-round we climb to see what the next solution will be that is spat out by the script.

 

The fact that my neighbour has also got a problem with her ADSL connection is totally irrelevant. It is not in the script. It does not compute.

 

Sigh.