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Argh! Withdrawal!
May. 8th, 2009 01:00 pm26 hours with no Internet!
In theory, I got a DSL upgrade yesterday - from 256k symmetrical to 5mb down, 896k up. This meant a device upgrade - my old service was old enough that it was CAP, the upgrade required me to go to DMT. (This was not a surprise - I've known for some years that the next time they touched my service, I was going to need the new device.)
As near as I can tell, the service went down about 8am yesterday, and came back up about 9:45am today. It was supposed to be up by 5pm yesterday. When the device still wasn't training at 5:10pm, I call Qwest. After about 30 minutes of hold / talk / hold / talk, the word was yes, they screwed up, they were trying to get it fixed, but it was late enough that they might not be able to get it fixed until today. Shortly after 7pm, the tech I'd been talking to left me voice-mail (during the five minutes I was out walking the dogs!) saying that they thought they'd be able to get it training in the next hour or so.
They didn't.
I got up about 6am - still not training. Check at 7:15, nope. Off to the Friends School Plant Sale with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iraunink - we run into chirosinger, chasophonic & bonz_lizard, pick up wristbands at 8am, then the five of us run off to Keys on Raymond for breakfast and conversation. Back to the plant sale to be allowed to actually buy stuff starting at 11am - iraunink & I were part of the fourth group of about 25 let in, the other three were in the group after us. We got our plants and were back on the road by 11:30, home about 12:00, walk the dogs, check the DSL - it's up!
And the DSL seems to be nicely faster.
I'm off to work in about 30 minutes - I'm working overtime from 2:00-7:30pm.
In theory, I got a DSL upgrade yesterday - from 256k symmetrical to 5mb down, 896k up. This meant a device upgrade - my old service was old enough that it was CAP, the upgrade required me to go to DMT. (This was not a surprise - I've known for some years that the next time they touched my service, I was going to need the new device.)
As near as I can tell, the service went down about 8am yesterday, and came back up about 9:45am today. It was supposed to be up by 5pm yesterday. When the device still wasn't training at 5:10pm, I call Qwest. After about 30 minutes of hold / talk / hold / talk, the word was yes, they screwed up, they were trying to get it fixed, but it was late enough that they might not be able to get it fixed until today. Shortly after 7pm, the tech I'd been talking to left me voice-mail (during the five minutes I was out walking the dogs!) saying that they thought they'd be able to get it training in the next hour or so.
They didn't.
I got up about 6am - still not training. Check at 7:15, nope. Off to the Friends School Plant Sale with
iraunink - we run into chirosinger, chasophonic & bonz_lizard, pick up wristbands at 8am, then the five of us run off to Keys on Raymond for breakfast and conversation. Back to the plant sale to be allowed to actually buy stuff starting at 11am - iraunink & I were part of the fourth group of about 25 let in, the other three were in the group after us. We got our plants and were back on the road by 11:30, home about 12:00, walk the dogs, check the DSL - it's up!And the DSL seems to be nicely faster.
I'm off to work in about 30 minutes - I'm working overtime from 2:00-7:30pm.
