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Minor troubles with teh intarwebz
Sep. 8th, 2009 11:27 pmIt can't all be perfect. But at least it's well on it's way. And the service is still much more responsive than Comcast. :-)
The good news: the Internet connectivity here, when it works, is reasonably fast. It's not nearly as fast as our home cable-internet, but it's at least comparable to DSL. The bad news: It's been up and down for us. Most of this is our fault for coming in and wanting service in our living quarters. It took them a couple days to get it set up in our guest house apartment, and then we moved to the other side of campus. To their credit, they connected up our new apartment in half an hour and it was working fine! Then sometime around noon today it suddenly stopped I'm not sure why; I'm guessing the construction work outside was a factor. (They are building a hospital next door, on the other side of our building.) Anyway, they fixed it this evening.
It probably helps that Michael and the lead internet/network technician are getting to be pretty good friends. He and Michael trade Linux tips. They did a six hour road-trip together today, and visited the place Ghandi started his salt march. Michael brought home a fully-functional hand cranked spinning wheel that folds to the size of a cigar box. It's ingenious and absolutely gorgeous.
I tried calling my office today via Skype, and it lasted only about 30 seconds before the connection dropped. It may be something in in our configuration, or the college's authentication may have kicked in or something. Who knows but it might be as simple as adding Skype credits. :-O I'll try again tomorrow or the next day after Michael's looked at it.
As a fall-back, as long as it's before 5pm local time I have use of Michael's office; that internet connection seems a bit more reliable. So I have internet for at least 8 or 9 hours a day if I need it (though it may not overlap much with my office's time zone).
Ah well, these are minor complaints. And if it keeps running I'll be happy.
The good news: the Internet connectivity here, when it works, is reasonably fast. It's not nearly as fast as our home cable-internet, but it's at least comparable to DSL. The bad news: It's been up and down for us. Most of this is our fault for coming in and wanting service in our living quarters. It took them a couple days to get it set up in our guest house apartment, and then we moved to the other side of campus. To their credit, they connected up our new apartment in half an hour and it was working fine! Then sometime around noon today it suddenly stopped I'm not sure why; I'm guessing the construction work outside was a factor. (They are building a hospital next door, on the other side of our building.) Anyway, they fixed it this evening.
It probably helps that Michael and the lead internet/network technician are getting to be pretty good friends. He and Michael trade Linux tips. They did a six hour road-trip together today, and visited the place Ghandi started his salt march. Michael brought home a fully-functional hand cranked spinning wheel that folds to the size of a cigar box. It's ingenious and absolutely gorgeous.
I tried calling my office today via Skype, and it lasted only about 30 seconds before the connection dropped. It may be something in in our configuration, or the college's authentication may have kicked in or something. Who knows but it might be as simple as adding Skype credits. :-O I'll try again tomorrow or the next day after Michael's looked at it.
As a fall-back, as long as it's before 5pm local time I have use of Michael's office; that internet connection seems a bit more reliable. So I have internet for at least 8 or 9 hours a day if I need it (though it may not overlap much with my office's time zone).
Ah well, these are minor complaints. And if it keeps running I'll be happy.
