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omfg broadband
Jun. 21st, 2006 05:28 pmbroadband has arrived!
we oohed and aahed over the speed of web pages appearing like ting! but we do get nasty lag spikes.
yeah ok, i knew it wasn't going to be perfect, what with our location being so far from the main ports, but there's this weird thing i don't get with our connection.
the lineman didn't set up a dialer for the username and password. first thing he did was install the modem and all, but then he said we weren't getting a connection because some of the modem light indicators remained off. so he said he was going back to their office to switch us to another port. he called us a few hours later and asked if all of the lights in the modem were turned on now and they were, so then he asked us to open internet explorer and then type in the username and password into a dialog box that automatically popped up. i told him we used firefox and that no dialog box asking for the username and password appeared. he then directed us to a pldt website and told us the log in there, and the dsl worked.
thing is, now we always have to go to that same website to log in, and make sure we don't close that window because we might get logged out. that site will always show our status whether we are connected or not.
i don't know.. it's very inconvenient. i much prefer the old system wherein you connect to broadband the same way you connect to dial-up: using the network connections in windows xp.
is there any way around this new system, i wonder. i just don't like it at all.
but i guess i should be thankful we have broadband at all, even if it is a rather choppy connection and YM is starting to bitch on me, the way it does with most broadband connections.
edit:
and oh right, for those who were trying to reach us through our landline: the phone died and so did we.
last june 6, our phone line went dead. remembering an incident like this before, i called our landline using my mobile, because last time, an incoming call jumpstarted our landline into having a dial tone again. the phone was ringing on my mobile, but our landline wasn't. then somebody answered. i was staring dumbfounded at our landline, my brain trying to figure out how somebody could answer our number when i was standing right in front of our phone, and i was sure as hell that nobody was there to answer it.
by this time, the person on the other line had said "hello" for the third time, so i asked what number this was, and she gave a different number. apparently our number was crossed with someone else's, so that when we dialled our number, we were directed to another house, and vice versa.
and get this, the number we got crossed with was effin' prepaid. we couldn't use their number to make outgoing calls or even to use the net because they were out of effin' credits. once we get our phone bill, if i see any long-distance calls between june 6 and june 21, i will not pay. damn that other house, they might have exploited usage of our line.
of all the effin' coincidences. telesulit, my effin' ass.
anyway, pldt finally fixed it today, along with the installation of the dsl. after two effin' weeks. after half an effin' month. should i even pay our bill this month? shouldn't i get a 50% discount at least? pldt claimed they were having trouble with the squatters in the area who were stealing their equipment and messing with their cabinets, which was why the problem started with the phone lines. no excuse!! two effin' weeks without internet. we positively died. lol.
another weird fact, my dad lost his mobile phone also last june 6.
june 6, 2006: the omen - the end of all telephonekind. o_O
we oohed and aahed over the speed of web pages appearing like ting! but we do get nasty lag spikes.
yeah ok, i knew it wasn't going to be perfect, what with our location being so far from the main ports, but there's this weird thing i don't get with our connection.
the lineman didn't set up a dialer for the username and password. first thing he did was install the modem and all, but then he said we weren't getting a connection because some of the modem light indicators remained off. so he said he was going back to their office to switch us to another port. he called us a few hours later and asked if all of the lights in the modem were turned on now and they were, so then he asked us to open internet explorer and then type in the username and password into a dialog box that automatically popped up. i told him we used firefox and that no dialog box asking for the username and password appeared. he then directed us to a pldt website and told us the log in there, and the dsl worked.
thing is, now we always have to go to that same website to log in, and make sure we don't close that window because we might get logged out. that site will always show our status whether we are connected or not.
i don't know.. it's very inconvenient. i much prefer the old system wherein you connect to broadband the same way you connect to dial-up: using the network connections in windows xp.
is there any way around this new system, i wonder. i just don't like it at all.
but i guess i should be thankful we have broadband at all, even if it is a rather choppy connection and YM is starting to bitch on me, the way it does with most broadband connections.
edit:
and oh right, for those who were trying to reach us through our landline: the phone died and so did we.
last june 6, our phone line went dead. remembering an incident like this before, i called our landline using my mobile, because last time, an incoming call jumpstarted our landline into having a dial tone again. the phone was ringing on my mobile, but our landline wasn't. then somebody answered. i was staring dumbfounded at our landline, my brain trying to figure out how somebody could answer our number when i was standing right in front of our phone, and i was sure as hell that nobody was there to answer it.
by this time, the person on the other line had said "hello" for the third time, so i asked what number this was, and she gave a different number. apparently our number was crossed with someone else's, so that when we dialled our number, we were directed to another house, and vice versa.
and get this, the number we got crossed with was effin' prepaid. we couldn't use their number to make outgoing calls or even to use the net because they were out of effin' credits. once we get our phone bill, if i see any long-distance calls between june 6 and june 21, i will not pay. damn that other house, they might have exploited usage of our line.
of all the effin' coincidences. telesulit, my effin' ass.
anyway, pldt finally fixed it today, along with the installation of the dsl. after two effin' weeks. after half an effin' month. should i even pay our bill this month? shouldn't i get a 50% discount at least? pldt claimed they were having trouble with the squatters in the area who were stealing their equipment and messing with their cabinets, which was why the problem started with the phone lines. no excuse!! two effin' weeks without internet. we positively died. lol.
another weird fact, my dad lost his mobile phone also last june 6.
june 6, 2006: the omen - the end of all telephonekind. o_O
