grr, argh, at&t
Dec. 20th, 2007 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbandruidIn a word? ARGH!
The DSL/Wireless thing is gonna need its own bloody tag, I swear.
Last night they had us take the modem out to the outside wiring box and plug it in directly to the phone line there. (This took about 10 minutes and 2 different screwdriver types to open up, plus we had to listen to my neighbor's rap music while we were doing it.) All we got was a power light on the modem.
When we called the ISP people back, they said the modem was defective, and that they'd talk to the supervisor tomorrow about getting us a replacement one, and call back today with details on that.
They just called, and I'm glad I let the answering machine take it instead of picking up the phone, because I just would have started ranting at the guy.
Now they're saying they checked the line again, and AT&T didn't get their thumb out yesterday like we thought, because apparently the line's not up yet. Or something. The message was a little confusing, and I need to listen to it again when I calm down a bit.
(I'm coming down off an Advil Cold & Sinus (advil + sudafed) which I'm sure isn't helping me chill out, but I had to take it, allergies are BAD. I woke up with the same pounding sinus headache I went to bed with, and thought, okay, "that's it, gotta do something."
Anyway, ISP dude says if it's not working by tomorrow afternoon, call them back.
I'm thinking, fuck. I have to move all of my crap back into Mom's room (I only have MY phone line in my jack, not the main line, and her computer isn't (we think) wireless capable), hook all that junk up again, and then I've got a $10 bet with myself that it still won't effing work.
I guess for my own amusement I could go plug the modem back in in Mom's room and see if I get any more lights, but I think if I don't, I may throw it across the room.
I'm still trying to make up my mind who to kill, but I think it'll be whoever's fault this is over at AT&T (yes, the 7/amperstand key is working at the moment, don't faint.) Because the ISP guys have been really nice, they worked very hard last night trying to figure out what was going on, and the phone company's just... hell, I think the phone company's still trying to figure out why we dropped our long distance plan. (Um, because 1.) we have call phones, and 2.) we've called long-distance maybe twice in the last year.)
Anyway, that's where the DSL mess is, if anyone's wondering.
In other news, the cat's still occasionally trying to climb the Christmas tree, and it still doesn't have any ornaments on it, just the lights. This always happens, the light/no ornament thing, because we get lazy or busy, or both. But now we're kind of afraid of what she'll do with the ornaments, so... no presents under the tree yet either, even though we have them, because again, not sure what she'll do with them. I may throw some ornaments up tonight, just because I want them there, and if she's going to keep climbing the tree, we need to know about it.
I don't want to bitch about my vacation, I really don't, but this is kind of sucking a little. I'm supposed to be relaxing, having fun, and not be stressed out.
And I hate Sudafed. I swear, somebody needs to invent an allergy pill that 1.) works, 2.) I can take with everything else I'm on, and 3.) doesn't hype me up or knock me flat.
The DSL/Wireless thing is gonna need its own bloody tag, I swear.
Last night they had us take the modem out to the outside wiring box and plug it in directly to the phone line there. (This took about 10 minutes and 2 different screwdriver types to open up, plus we had to listen to my neighbor's rap music while we were doing it.) All we got was a power light on the modem.
When we called the ISP people back, they said the modem was defective, and that they'd talk to the supervisor tomorrow about getting us a replacement one, and call back today with details on that.
They just called, and I'm glad I let the answering machine take it instead of picking up the phone, because I just would have started ranting at the guy.
Now they're saying they checked the line again, and AT&T didn't get their thumb out yesterday like we thought, because apparently the line's not up yet. Or something. The message was a little confusing, and I need to listen to it again when I calm down a bit.
(I'm coming down off an Advil Cold & Sinus (advil + sudafed) which I'm sure isn't helping me chill out, but I had to take it, allergies are BAD. I woke up with the same pounding sinus headache I went to bed with, and thought, okay, "that's it, gotta do something."
Anyway, ISP dude says if it's not working by tomorrow afternoon, call them back.
I'm thinking, fuck. I have to move all of my crap back into Mom's room (I only have MY phone line in my jack, not the main line, and her computer isn't (we think) wireless capable), hook all that junk up again, and then I've got a $10 bet with myself that it still won't effing work.
I guess for my own amusement I could go plug the modem back in in Mom's room and see if I get any more lights, but I think if I don't, I may throw it across the room.
I'm still trying to make up my mind who to kill, but I think it'll be whoever's fault this is over at AT&T (yes, the 7/amperstand key is working at the moment, don't faint.) Because the ISP guys have been really nice, they worked very hard last night trying to figure out what was going on, and the phone company's just... hell, I think the phone company's still trying to figure out why we dropped our long distance plan. (Um, because 1.) we have call phones, and 2.) we've called long-distance maybe twice in the last year.)
Anyway, that's where the DSL mess is, if anyone's wondering.
In other news, the cat's still occasionally trying to climb the Christmas tree, and it still doesn't have any ornaments on it, just the lights. This always happens, the light/no ornament thing, because we get lazy or busy, or both. But now we're kind of afraid of what she'll do with the ornaments, so... no presents under the tree yet either, even though we have them, because again, not sure what she'll do with them. I may throw some ornaments up tonight, just because I want them there, and if she's going to keep climbing the tree, we need to know about it.
I don't want to bitch about my vacation, I really don't, but this is kind of sucking a little. I'm supposed to be relaxing, having fun, and not be stressed out.
And I hate Sudafed. I swear, somebody needs to invent an allergy pill that 1.) works, 2.) I can take with everything else I'm on, and 3.) doesn't hype me up or knock me flat.
