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I have the internet, but no telephone!

I'll have to wait for OH to get home, as he has a mobile. Then we can contact the 'phone service.

:-S :-S

My brother had the same problem after the storms.
There had been a problem with the phone line. BT restored the line, so he had internet connection, but they forgot to restore the phone.!!!!

OH came home, had go into the street to use his mobile (our house sits in a black hole, no mobile 'phones work here).

Called the ISP....... who said a technician would be here asap, and did we have a contact telephone number please. Duh!!

OH kept his temper, reminded them that we DON'T have a land line, and that he was not in the house. Do they listen????????

Meanwhile, the internet has been dropping in and out for hours, it will probably drop out again just as I click "submit".

I have a physio appointment tomorrow morning at 10, I expect they will turn up when I'm out!

:-(

about to click.............................

Sounds familiar.
My brother has no mobile reception where he lives in the south of Cornwall.
He has to go a mile up the road to get a signal.
He contacted BT by e mail & explained the situation & they said they would call him back on his mobile, having been told there was no reception.
Did they think my brother was going to walk a mile in the pouring rain & wait an unspecified time for BT to call back?
Good job he didn´t. It took them 5 days to get back to him.

lol......... it must be something to do with Cornwall............ OH's great grandfather was born in Luxulyan.

:-D

They called back, left a text message....... said there would be someone here maybe tomorrow or Friday.......... as I said, they will probably be here tomorrow at 10. I might leave a note on the front door, saying I'll be limping back at 11.30.

;-)

Bet he didn´t have very good reception on his mobile either. :-D

OH was in Armidale a few months ago (in NSW, where great-grandad lived when he first came to Oz), and his 'phone didn't work there either.

I starting to think it's HIM!

I left a note on the door this morning, don't think anyone was here.

The internet dropped out this morning just before 9am, I've been trying all day, and just got it back... at 6pm.

Fed up and frustrated with this.

:-(

nobody turned up yesterday

It's now 1.45 Friday afternoon. No joy.

at 3 I have to get in the shower (been slobbing around all day, because you can be sure as soon as I close the bathroom door, somebody will ring the doorbell).

Arrrrrrrrgh.

:-(

Dear Mrs.Scozz,
Go and have your shower. We have arranged for one of our blind technicians to call. Please keep calm when you hear the guide-dog barking at your front door.
Yours faithfully,
Austracom.
P.S. The dog has perfect eyesight and can operate a mobile phone + camera. :-S

lol Bernie

The dogs next door started barking at about 2.45......... at the man doing something in the garden across the street.

At 3 I was about to stick a note on the front door, to say I was in the shower.......... DING DONG........ Yay!!

The technician checked our telephone, then had to go to the exchange........ I got in the shower.......... he got back at 3.40, all fixed!

We now have telephone, and no problems with the internet. We had problems getting the internet in December, and nothing in January (our local techy guy was away on holiday). We got a new modem (mainly because OH decided to operate on it), but it looks like that wasn't necessary.

The problem was on Telstra's side, not ours, so we didn't have to pay the fee.

Now....... if they could only fix the black hole & we could get mobile phone here!

:-D

btw........ when he got back, I was dressed! Shower, shampoo etc etc. hair dried & make up on! I grew up in a house with Mum & Dad, four brothers and one bathroom!

Yeah.
Well I was one of 16. We had a whirly shower thing in the back paddock that we shared with a few million eRRols. Our skin went a funny colour, we only had a haircut twice a year but we never suffered from intestinal parasites or nits.

B :-P

lolol Bernie........ how was the sheep dip?


:-D

4.30 Saturday afternoon

Just had a call from the telephone provider........... asking if the service was working

:-S :-S :-S :-S

:-D

Well, you should have said "No - I can't hear a thing",
.
We had a similar problem a few weeks ago. Someone in the exchange doing a little repair managed to drop a bit of wire across our contacts. Phone shorted out. Our internet connection comes from another black box so was not affected.

Oh, the wonders of modern science.

And yeah, we couldn't drown in a whirly spray - tho one or two wouldn't have been missed.

(I hope you don't believe any of all this - I'm as bad as John Howard for telling the truth!!)

B