I'm so damned bored I wanna.....?
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I don't know what bored means - like I always seem to be short of time. But then I've never been in your situation yet - hope I will never be.
I do have one MAJOR frustration though. TELKOM - the provider of Internet in South Africa - is driving me looney tunes. Been battling for months to get service. Their sales side doesn't have access to the technical installation side and on the technical side they still have to create a line to where I live. All of the lines available have been taken. Frustrating part is I live inside town - it's not like on a farm or something. These idiots don't even have a system where at the time when I first applied for the service they can see exactly what lines are available where I live and to whom and most important WHERE the source of the lines is. When I finally got an appointment last Thursday for someone to come out to INSTALL my service, he couldn't find a line. Then had to go and search for where the neighbourhood got served, and the real shocker was that it's all in the backyard of a garden two houses away from where I live, in a very open pipe for all to see and all to access. He then recommended that the technical guys have to dig up the line to get me an access line and I will then be responsible for laying a cable to where I needed my Internet access to be. I don't mind doing that as I'm desperate BUT we are now in a black hole of communication as there are no contact numbers for the technical side. Worse, the customer service has no access to the technical side. If they read the system it says the sub-contractor is installing the service. And of course the sub-contractor can't. So that leaves me out in limbo.
Wonder why we can't get internet via satellite. :unknown:
I do have one MAJOR frustration though. TELKOM - the provider of Internet in South Africa - is driving me looney tunes. Been battling for months to get service. Their sales side doesn't have access to the technical installation side and on the technical side they still have to create a line to where I live. All of the lines available have been taken. Frustrating part is I live inside town - it's not like on a farm or something. These idiots don't even have a system where at the time when I first applied for the service they can see exactly what lines are available where I live and to whom and most important WHERE the source of the lines is. When I finally got an appointment last Thursday for someone to come out to INSTALL my service, he couldn't find a line. Then had to go and search for where the neighbourhood got served, and the real shocker was that it's all in the backyard of a garden two houses away from where I live, in a very open pipe for all to see and all to access. He then recommended that the technical guys have to dig up the line to get me an access line and I will then be responsible for laying a cable to where I needed my Internet access to be. I don't mind doing that as I'm desperate BUT we are now in a black hole of communication as there are no contact numbers for the technical side. Worse, the customer service has no access to the technical side. If they read the system it says the sub-contractor is installing the service. And of course the sub-contractor can't. So that leaves me out in limbo.
Wonder why we can't get internet via satellite. :unknown:
c0nvct
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OMG That is just the most bonkers situation! All is forgiven OpenReach! There are worse services. I thought it was possible to use satellite for data streams but insanely expensive to be of use? How about the 4g mobile service or is that what you use? Where are you in SA? I expected the comms to be better developed by now....
c0nvct said:
You sound like me. At one time in my distant past I used to write articles for a journal. I'd do anything not to write the article, like this was major procrastination. Everything had to be absolutely perfect for me to start. But then eventually I understood life doesn't work that way. You have to imagine the article when you wake up first thing in the morning, or when you're in a state of relaxation such as when you're being driven or you're driving from point one to point two. Ideas just pop up from nowhere. Art is to grab that idea and immediately start to "imagine" the article around the idea. Then "imagine" sitting down and writing it down. :smile:
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