At last, I can connect to the internets (yes, plural) at any hour of the day or night, from my sofa or from my kitchen table, heck probably even from the bathtub, if I weren't concerned about electrocution. Okay, so I haven't yet hooked up my wireless router (which is still tinged yellow from an incident with Claire's paint), so until then I'm pretty much limited to this spot on the floor where I'm sitting, or maybe on the edge of my bed if I arrange the cords just right.
I'll spare you the saga (I've told it to a couple of people and decided that it's not really as interesting as I had believed), but here are the highlights, by the numbers:
- two internet service providers
- three modems
- a dozen customer service reps
- two routings to an Illinois call center because the system got confused by my California address and my Utah phone number (Utah + California = Illinois?)
- one technician
- one bewildered, oft-frustrated, but after all happy internet customer
5 comments:
It might be handy to have two connections as one might be dead every now and then. I know. Have good times with your connections.
yay for shiny internets!
too bad that didn't last longer
Hmmm, Utah+California=Illinois...I could see that...maybe...I was born in Utah, rasied in Cali, and I love Chicago, so maybe that means I'm s'posed to live in Illinois, not a bad idea.
p.s. I'm switching ISP's, could I just steal one of your internets, I'm already confused by the transition.
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