I have some news on the broadband installation I was having all the trouble with last week, it seems it was the telephone line after all. My sister-in-law (Julie) had the technicians from Telstra come out on Friday and they told her she wouldn’t be able to have ADSL and yet was told by her ISP that it would be okay. This forebodes badly for the upcoming sale of Telstra. Once the company is privatised all service will go out the window, and as bad as it is now, we can all expect it to get worse. Julie lives only 2 km from the nearest post-office but in fact the line is 5 km away. How they managed that is beyond my understanding, and she’s stuck with dial-up, a most frustrating situation.
This morning I’m going around to tackle another ADSL installation. This time the one I did a couple of weeks ago where I had to end up using Ethernet instead of USB. I still need to get the two computers networked and have since got myself a handful of network cards so if the USB installation fails, I can install a second network card. That doesn’t guarantee that the two computers will be able to communicate – there was a connectivity problem that I have a fix from Microsoft for, though my confidence in this fix is not very high. It could be a long and frustrating day. I seem to use that word frustrating alot when it comes to computers, it’s lucky I have plenty of patience and plenty of other ideas when it comes to computers. Numerous people tell me the computer would have went out the window long before if it was up to them to deal with the problems. Yes, they are frustrating, but when you get something to finally work it can be satisfying and that feeling is reward enough to keep trying.
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