The ADSL has returned!
I was right. I didn't get it back on Monday, but today is better than I expected. I spoke to Freeola who said they needed to get on to BT to run various tests and that it could take 3-5 days. This was last night at about 7pm. The signal had actually reappeared by 4:55am (the time of first access to my website).
Wish I knew what went wrong though. I can't imagine BT did any repairs that early in the morning.
It's was Kate and my fourth anniversary yesterday so we went out for dinner to "Back In Time" - an american themed restaurant serving steaks, burgers etc. The food was very nice. I had soup of the day to start - potato and leak which was nicer than it looked since it had very large lumps of potato which I'm not used to. For the main course I had a steak with curly chips, fried onions and salad, and I finished my meal off with a nice large Cappuchino.
The only problem with the restaurant was in the first 5 minutes of our visit. The stupid bartender (who has little idea of customer relations in my opinion and is a little hyperactive) decided it was illegal to serve soft drinks at the bar to be paid for there and then in cash. So I had to summon the manager and explain that there is no law against selling soft drinks and that it only applies to alcoholic drinks. The manager understood that, but the bartender bloke didn't and threw some off hand comment my way.
Twit.
I was right. I didn't get it back on Monday, but today is better than I expected. I spoke to Freeola who said they needed to get on to BT to run various tests and that it could take 3-5 days. This was last night at about 7pm. The signal had actually reappeared by 4:55am (the time of first access to my website).
Wish I knew what went wrong though. I can't imagine BT did any repairs that early in the morning.
It's was Kate and my fourth anniversary yesterday so we went out for dinner to "Back In Time" - an american themed restaurant serving steaks, burgers etc. The food was very nice. I had soup of the day to start - potato and leak which was nicer than it looked since it had very large lumps of potato which I'm not used to. For the main course I had a steak with curly chips, fried onions and salad, and I finished my meal off with a nice large Cappuchino.
The only problem with the restaurant was in the first 5 minutes of our visit. The stupid bartender (who has little idea of customer relations in my opinion and is a little hyperactive) decided it was illegal to serve soft drinks at the bar to be paid for there and then in cash. So I had to summon the manager and explain that there is no law against selling soft drinks and that it only applies to alcoholic drinks. The manager understood that, but the bartender bloke didn't and threw some off hand comment my way.
Twit.
The ADSL has fallen over again, meaning not only do we not have internet access at the moment, but also my site is offline. One of the drawbacks of hosting the site myself.
It's quite annoying, especially as it fell over not long before Christmas. That was something to do with BT having knocked it off and I wonder if the same is true again today. What makes it worse is the fact that Freeola (who supply me broadband via BT) cannot tell me anything. They say they have no network problems but they can't do any checks on my line as their technical people don't work weekends.
I'm sure I don't really need to say it, but that seems pretty stupid to me. There must be cases quite frequently when people's service falls over on weekends and there is no-one to help them. I should demand a refund for the days when I don't have internet access which probably will be until Monday at the earliest but maybe Tuesday.
In other things, there's a whale in London believe it or not (well you'll have to believe it actually. BBC News 24 have been covering it all day). It's an 18ft Northern Bottle-Nose whale. I have no idea why it thought going for a swim in the Thames was a good idea but I bet it doesn't think so now.
It's quite annoying, especially as it fell over not long before Christmas. That was something to do with BT having knocked it off and I wonder if the same is true again today. What makes it worse is the fact that Freeola (who supply me broadband via BT) cannot tell me anything. They say they have no network problems but they can't do any checks on my line as their technical people don't work weekends.
I'm sure I don't really need to say it, but that seems pretty stupid to me. There must be cases quite frequently when people's service falls over on weekends and there is no-one to help them. I should demand a refund for the days when I don't have internet access which probably will be until Monday at the earliest but maybe Tuesday.
In other things, there's a whale in London believe it or not (well you'll have to believe it actually. BBC News 24 have been covering it all day). It's an 18ft Northern Bottle-Nose whale. I have no idea why it thought going for a swim in the Thames was a good idea but I bet it doesn't think so now.