| RavenBlog |
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| Comments on Sunday 20 July 2003: |
| Tsk. ADSL ready by the 11th of July, they say. "Oh no, wait, the exchange has just run out of ports and has to be upgraded. Won't be ready 'til early August." Do they not have records of how many ports are used at a given exchange? Can they not see that it's going to run out soon, and order an upgrade such that its implementation date coincides, or almost coincides, with the need for it? Evidently not. Does the cheese shop actually have any cheese at all? Oh yes, sir. Really? No. [22:01] |
| Eps |
| If I remember correctly a MiniMUNIX device to supply 48 adsl enabled ports costs around 250,000 Australian dollars PLUS installation costs at the exchange. You should have consulted the deeply hidden but publicly available "ADSL port allocation file" that is located on the bigpond website and is regularly moved. (Which is why my version of it is six months out of date.) If you give me the name of your local exchange I can give you the real date (if any) of the next planned upgrade from the equally hidden "ADSL exchange upgrade schedule". (My copy of that one is only two months out of date.) So unless you want to dish out the money yourself there’s nothing you can do to get adsl except wait. (Well you could move? Some people have resorted to that.) Maybe you could look at joining your local mesh? |
| Aaron |
| What the hell is that quote from? Yeargh! It's going to drive me insane. |
| RavenBlack |
| Monty Python's cheese shop sketch. |
| Aaron |
| Oh geeze. Thanks. I'm afraid I haven't seen my share of Monty Python yet, just a few episodes here and there on the Canadian comedy channel. So do forgive me. |