Re: Would you be lost without your computer!!?
Im currently a victim of such a loss
It all started when BT terminated our account! Yes the bill was payed and no they'd not been asked to but there'd been a complicated conversation and somehow they'd been led to believe we were leaving BT and didnt want a line any longer
Well after a desperate phone call to them they finally got the idea and apologised.. well ok they said they thought there'd been a small error! and we would be back with a phone line with in a week. Well it was a dreadful week.. I have full use of all this house but I tend to use just my room as sitting downstairs watching Stargate or Star Trek or Heliloggers or tattoo shows bores me to bits. But there's no tv signal up here so I watch all I want to see on the internet (which I cant recieve at the mo). Eventually after the week the phone line is back on and I try to log in all excited but no the router stil cant connect. We call BT again and they say "Ah well because we terminated your account you now have a new number so you'll have to ring whoever supplies your internet and tell them the new number". Grrrr this is getting ridiculous... so AOL are called and all is explained. They now see us as new account holders even though its only a number change and we'll have to wait 10-14 days for them to set up a new account!!!!! IDIOTS I mean my blood is boiling by this time and im like a drug dependant moronic fishwife but there's nothing that can be done.
So I left Reg in the good hands of my mate Gary who owns this house and also is without internet of course and grab my 3 dogs and go to camp out at my mothers for the 2nd time in a fortnight!!
I need to add that I have a very low mobile signal at home unless the phone is right against the window and its too far to use it for internet as it kills my back to reach over.
Anyway its the only signal that works so I trot off to the t-mobile shop and speak to Dave
He tells me if I can get my pc in a position where a dongle will get the 3 bars that my mobile can get by the window I ought to be able to pick up a 2g signal. Well I went for it as at least it means I can speak to my other half who is working in Coventry and I haven't seen in over 2 weeks and probably not for another 2
, I can access my facebook too but cant do my games as 2g isnt fast enough and im obviously on here but cant see threads with photos very well either but HEY!!! Im online and fingers crossed the main broadband will be back in a week
So in answer to the thread question YES I was totally distraught with no internet!!!