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Aug. 26th, 2005 04:55 pmIt's Full Of Flatty Goodness!
So. New flat. My room is so purple.
Overall, it's been great. The commute is a dream - seven stops on the tube and always a seat. We've been stocking up on furniture down at Ikea and have gone for a kind of dark cherry wood look, only Billy doesn't come in cherry, oak is as good as we can get. Hopefully by tomorrow evening I will also have a bed set up, as I've been sleeping on a blow-up mattress on the floor, and it's lumpy in all the wrong places, and also seems very large without the boy. On Wednesday, we had Ben for dinner - a rather pleasant chicken balti - and Bloody Marys were consumed. It was very civilised.
In Which I Lose At The Internets
But there is one big problem. The Internets are not working. I've signed up with Onetel and, instead of the two to three days I had hoped it would take to get Broadband fixed up, it's going to take 14 to 15 days. I'm on the parental's computer right now and it feels like I'm clutching my crack pipe getting my LJ fix. There's nothing we can do about how long it's going to take, but I could really use some assistance to smooth everything over once we've got it set up. Any help from the techies among you at this point would be greatly appreciated, and here's what I want to know.
The Nature Of The Beast
Cyg and I are setting up a wireless network over an ADSL connection, but AFAIK Onetel only sends out USB modems and not Ethernet modems. Now, my understanding is with a USB modem I'll have to have the main computer (mine) on constantly for whenever Cyg wants to access the net, and this is frankly not acceptable - my computer is in my bedroom and it has a noisy fan and I am not having people coming in during the night to power up the net when I'm sleeping. I categorically refuse.
Does anybody know if I'll be able to acquire an Ethernet modem in place of the free one Onetel are sending and use that? I have my eye on a nice one from Linksys which Lowell kindly directed me at the other day.
My second question is basically regarding the timescales for setting this up. Does it usually take as long as a fortnight to get Broadband? Is this just the 'maximum' timeframe and it'll actually happen early next week? Does anybody know? Anyone?
A Plea To You Good Friends
Greg? Anyone? Please, I'm really frustrated over this so, yes, pleasepleaseplease help me out here. Join the Get Alex and Cyg Online Campaign today. We'll make buttons if you want. I can check email and LJ comments at work so, yes, any offers of help, back massage, guilt-free sex or just parcels containg free alcohol to the usual place, please.
So. New flat. My room is so purple.
Overall, it's been great. The commute is a dream - seven stops on the tube and always a seat. We've been stocking up on furniture down at Ikea and have gone for a kind of dark cherry wood look, only Billy doesn't come in cherry, oak is as good as we can get. Hopefully by tomorrow evening I will also have a bed set up, as I've been sleeping on a blow-up mattress on the floor, and it's lumpy in all the wrong places, and also seems very large without the boy. On Wednesday, we had Ben for dinner - a rather pleasant chicken balti - and Bloody Marys were consumed. It was very civilised.
In Which I Lose At The Internets
But there is one big problem. The Internets are not working. I've signed up with Onetel and, instead of the two to three days I had hoped it would take to get Broadband fixed up, it's going to take 14 to 15 days. I'm on the parental's computer right now and it feels like I'm clutching my crack pipe getting my LJ fix. There's nothing we can do about how long it's going to take, but I could really use some assistance to smooth everything over once we've got it set up. Any help from the techies among you at this point would be greatly appreciated, and here's what I want to know.
The Nature Of The Beast
Cyg and I are setting up a wireless network over an ADSL connection, but AFAIK Onetel only sends out USB modems and not Ethernet modems. Now, my understanding is with a USB modem I'll have to have the main computer (mine) on constantly for whenever Cyg wants to access the net, and this is frankly not acceptable - my computer is in my bedroom and it has a noisy fan and I am not having people coming in during the night to power up the net when I'm sleeping. I categorically refuse.
Does anybody know if I'll be able to acquire an Ethernet modem in place of the free one Onetel are sending and use that? I have my eye on a nice one from Linksys which Lowell kindly directed me at the other day.
My second question is basically regarding the timescales for setting this up. Does it usually take as long as a fortnight to get Broadband? Is this just the 'maximum' timeframe and it'll actually happen early next week? Does anybody know? Anyone?
A Plea To You Good Friends
Greg? Anyone? Please, I'm really frustrated over this so, yes, pleasepleaseplease help me out here. Join the Get Alex and Cyg Online Campaign today. We'll make buttons if you want. I can check email and LJ comments at work so, yes, any offers of help, back massage, guilt-free sex or just parcels containg free alcohol to the usual place, please.