Internet Taken For Granted

[jims-terrano]

Yesterday my home broadband died, not a thing. Wifi works its just not getting anything crom the outside world. My ISP are sending an engineer tomorrow teatime whi h is fine. I can tether and things to do what I need to do.
my kids have come home and they really are stuck. My daughter needed to do homework whi h is all online from school and is worried about a telling off from teaching staff.
What has the world come to that it's taken for granted that you'll have Internet access .

[jonela]

It won't be long before you cant do any thing without the internet, lots of people like me don't have a proper land line anymore, as the phone is on the internet line. All our tv is starting to be downloaded or streamed, and you don't even get an instruction book now when you buy something electrical you have to download it. The other day I rang Orange our internet provider,and it took me 5 calls and 5 different roots through there maze of automated systems to finally get to talk to a real person :doh

[perelaar]

If you have a public library around, they might be able to help your daughter. Here with us all libraries provide free internet access (albeit some sites, porn for example, might be blocked).

[Lazy-Ferret]

When I was a Kid, our old TV packed up, but mum and dad could not afford to immediately replace it. To be honest, it was summer, and we were still of the era that we only really watched TV when it was raining or we were ill. As we spent most of the time out on our push bikes with our friends we did not miss it at all. At School, we were given homework to watch a TV program and write a report on it. When I said we did not have a TV, not only was I humiliated in front of all my class mates, but was told "Then you will need to ask a friend if you can watch theirs". So basically, my poor mum and dad then had to admit to the neighbours that they could not afford a TV.

I think school teachers should learn to teach properly....

A few years ago, when we changed banks, we forgot to change over the Direct Debit for my ISP. When they failed to get their payment, they apparently, unbeknown to me, sent me an Email to say that they had suspended my account due to non-payment. The problem was, they sent it to the account that they had suspended.

I then wasted that first couple of hours fault finding my end, then goodness knows how long on the phone to their Support before it came out that the bill had not been paid.

When I asked why I had not been told that the bill payment had failed, that was when I was told about the Email that would have been sent, apparently by an automated process. I explained that I had not received it, and it was then it came out it was sent after the account was suspended. I asked "how could I pick up that email" where they said, well, we just expect you to use a different account!!

It took about 3 days to get it back on line, and in that time, the amount of things that you take for granted you can do, suddenly all come to a grinding halt.

[supergnome]

Did you look at the router settings, this will tell you if it you to the exchange or the exchange onwards.

[jims-terrano]

Theres no input signal to the router from the street.

[elty001]

I would reply but I've got no Internet :nenau:lol:lol
my kids are the same with homework Jim.
They do it all on the pc then email it to school :nenau
Work is getting just as bad,four guys sat in the same office emailing each other.
I very often get moaned at for not checking my emails.
The fab shop and paint shop are next door to each other.
God forbid the manager getting off his arse and walking 20 foot to ask me something :eek:

[perelaar]

I cut down on email use. Check my mails 3 or 4 times a day, less even when I am doing something that demands concentration.

Colleagues got used to that in the end. Most email traffic is rubbish anyway, just like most meetings.

[elty001]

I cut down on email use. Check my mails 3 or 4 times a day, less even when I am doing something that demands concentration.

Colleagues got used to that in the end. Most email traffic is rubbish anyway, just like most meetings.

Yep.
We have a daily production meeting which is usually just repeating what was said the day before:doh
Waste of everyone's time but the powers that be insist on it.
I run my department hands on from the shop floor not sat in front of a PC.

[jims-terrano]

Woohoo online again ding dang doo :clap