Later tonight and during tomorrow I am changing my telephone and broadband supplier.
My new supplier assures me that it is all very simple and absolutely nothing can go wrong. That confirmed my worst fears!
So, if you have difficulty getting through tomorrow just look upon it as an opportunity to read some sensible blogs for a change. In the meantime I shall struggle on manfully with trying to sort out routers, DSL cables, PSUs and other mysteries known only to God and 'SoD'! The final sentence in my list of instructions simply states: Plug in, switch on. If only life was that simple!
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It was, it was but 'I've done it, I've done it, by jove, I've really done it!'
Jingle bells, how many times do I have to tell you, your blog is hosted on the internet, not on your PC. So it doesn't matter if you can't connect to the internet, we can still access your blog because it's on the internet, even if you aren't.
SoD
Posted by: Lawrence Duff | Tuesday, 03 December 2013 at 20:01
Well I am, er, by the look of it - and I changed the do-flicker-router-thingies all on my own, so there! Of course, Lawrence, should you be looking for an experienced consultant on changing routers I am available at very reasonable rates!
Actually, I'm sitting here knee-deep in cables and wires and I can't quite believe it has all worked - mind you, I have yet to check your mother's laptop, so fingers crossed!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 03 December 2013 at 20:37
David I am not sure about what happens on my computor. I used to use Outlook Express email and it is still there somewhere but now have I am told web based email with BT. I JUST TYPE, SEND AND HOPE.
Posted by: Glesga | Tuesday, 03 December 2013 at 21:18
Well done, I'll bring the laptop down at Xmas and kick your arse on a battlefield somewhere,
SoD
Posted by: Lawrence Duff | Wednesday, 04 December 2013 at 09:33
"I JUST TYPE, SEND AND HOPE" - as fine a motto as I can think of in these techie days, Jimmy!
OK, Lawrence, you're on! And I sorted your mother's laptop this morning - God, I'm Good!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 04 December 2013 at 10:46
Modest, too!
Posted by: Andra | Wednesday, 04 December 2013 at 18:57
Yo David!
We've a Warning, Warning, Warning offer here too (Global Warmnuttiests fer as I can figurest - I'm thinking ... you can figure it out)
Anyway - we're havin' some really severest Winter over ere Arkansas ... think you might check with the Hemm ... er, Deltoids?
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php
Advise the Hemm, er, Deltoids just to "plug in" 72576 to check how the climate change is going. Some like it hot in America's South.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 06 December 2013 at 06:42
Yes, JK, I picked up a headline the other day warning that Arkansas was about to emulate Alaska. I was about to advise you put your Long Johns on but then I remembered that you hillbilly folk never take 'em off! And you mustn't poke fun at the Church of Deltoids, their congregation is disappearing fast!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 06 December 2013 at 11:08