...Via the BT test socket

[bunn]

Well the ADSL *sort of* works. Zen get a Gold Star for correctly diagnosing that the BT engineer 'I haven't been doing these installations for very long' had incorrectly wired up the main phone socket, AND coming up with an effective workaround - but a Stinking Dead Rodent point for their total inability to deliver hardware. We went to PC World in the end, which meant:

- I had to break my resolution never to buy stuff from PC World

- I got an overpriced Belkin wireless router rather than the very nice Draytek one I really wanted

- I had to be bitterly sarcastic to the guys at Zen to prevent them from charging me a 'restocking fee' for a router they had failed to deliver as promised (I was: they withered).

- I had to spend what felt like WEEKS in a BT queue, then explain my problem to Bangalore, then to Edinburgh and finally to Birmingham. Birmingham was the only one who didn't reply with terrified incomprehension.

- I learnt that 'modem' has become industry parlance for 'thing what connect you to internet' even if it don't modulate / demodulate any more. Like Hoovering with a Dyson.

- IT WORKS!

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

We got an overpriced Belkin wireless router as it was the only one for love or money in Harrow. It wouldn't work, and neither would the replacement one, so we're stuck with trailing wires for the time being.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

This is very hard to type with someone muttering "remember you are mortal Caesar" in your ear (for "mortal" read "drunk").

Anyway: We have a Draytek router and it's very very nice. You should get one.

We have the Bangalore problem at work, as I'm sure Polo has told you. It's very hard to get them to fix a minor issue like your patch cable being too short from 18,000 miles away.

Cheers,

Pell.R.

PS Ladyofastolat says "I am drunk".

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I absolutely have to have the router working for Monday morning otherwise The Skies Will Fall - so it was PC World Belkin, Dlink or Linksys, or nothing.

Belkin & Dlink were the same (too high) price so I picked at random. I suppose I could ebay the Belkin and buy a Draytek instead sometime: I will do if the Belkin becomes too annoying.