I'm back!

For some, the most wonderful sight in the world will be the face of their newborn child.  For me, it was the glowing, blue 'Broadband connected' button on my newly-installed Home Hub.

How can it possibly take 9 days to get Broadband connected up?

I finally moved over to Manchester permanently on November 1st and, on the following Monday, a chap from BT arrived to connect up my new phone line.  I naively thought that, once the phone was connected, I would just be able to get on to BT and order the Broadband - which would then, presumably, arrive next day or the day after and normal service would be resumed...  How wrong I was!  First of all the new telephone line has to be connected for two working days whilst they test it to make sure it's working properly and can support Broadband.  Once BT are satisfied with this, they will then permit you to place your order for BB and, a week later, they'll send out the home hub...

Meanwhile, I struggled valiantly on with a mobile BB dongle that worked for about half an hour a day and would allow me to read my email but wouldn't let me reply to it.  My new best friends were the guys from the O2 Mobile Broadband Helpline who were trying their best to get me a better connection but, despite all their efforts, I had to concede defeat and accept the fact that mobile Broadband and my new apartment building are not a match made in heaven.

So, if you subscribe to this blog's feed and you were wondering why I suddenly stopped posting, now you know...

I've said elsewhere on this blog that, apart from loved ones, the first thing I would grab in the event of a fire would be my laptop...  However, a laptop is of limited use when it's not connected to the Internet and, as of 10.30 am today, I'm back in the land of the living!  Normal service has been resumed!  Let joy be unconfined!:-)