Internetless in Amman
Well, since last Wednesday I had been internetless at my home. As I am switching my ISP, the Jordan Telecom, and the stupid ISP I am switching to needs 48 hours to process the application. My bad luck made it so that a weekend falls within those 48 hours which made it 48 hours longer.
What makes it worse is that my ISP insist in some stupid procedures such as having someone from them visit the site (my house) to make the proper set up. Now I am 100% sure that whoever comes will not know a bit about what to do with my Debian box, which makes the whole visit a waste of both his time and mine.
An interesting thing that happened during this internetless weekend is that I slept better, and read more in the book that I have on my “To-Read” shelf, as well had my home folder cleaned up, and deleted some un-needed files. As well gone creative with ways to improve things at my workplace, and discovered some games and applications that I had in my PC for some time that didn’t test or try.
Now I am looking forward having Internet back to my home life, I admit that I am an addict.
A similar thing happened with me a few years ago. The only differences: It was a retarded Windows Me and they wanted to charge me $50 dollars for installation! After some deliberation I got the “installation fee” waived. The guy came, plugged the cable modem in the back of the PC, opened IE, Googled for “speed test”, ran one, and said “great, you are now ready to go”
Haha, aren’t we all addicted. Yalla, I hope your internet is back up and running ASAP.
I can whine endlessly about how CRappy Jordan Telecom’s service is, but a week isn’t too bad. It took them 2 months to come the first time we installed DSL…
when we installed SBC Yahoo DSL at my house we were mailed all the stuff and we had to install it ourselves. of course you can pay the extra fee and have someone install it for you, but my brother is a showoff and bet me he can do it. he did it and i have not expeirienced any problems yet, knock on wood.
true though, you tend to get more done when the internet is down. i am as well addicted. we should start a support group called “IUA”
Internet Users Anonymous.
I’m thinking to switch to 128 as 512 is meaning less with their bandwidth restrictions, you can just eat it up on the first day of bandwidth cycle..
hope I’ll not be offline for 48 hours…
anyway
Welcome back DR isam.
so U switched from BA6ELKHOO to W-2ANA DOOKH or Vis a vis ;)
or did U simply went “Next” to the bridges of happiness (fara7!)
so U switched from BA6ELKHOO to W-2ANA DOOKH or Vis a vis ;)
or did U simply went “Next” to the bridges of happiness (fara7!)
Well, I was on ADSL with Link.net, and witched to Wanadoo.. infact I choose wanadoo because it is the best of what is available, while I think it is not good enough..
you can always tell them “i already have things installed! i am only renewing my subscription”
i did that and it all went great! no one came to check,
anyway bandwidth limits here suck! i am on 512 dsl and last week it was slow as crap i phoned my ISP they said ” you exceeded you limits” you only got a 4 GIGs a month… like wtf!