O/T: DSL-related question

[504GL]

Most places don't charge you a connection fee so it wouldn't have mattered either way

 

They do, unless you go for a long contract.

 

Well I guess if you might be moving soon then that's a factor I doubt they'd have charged you to plug you into the DSLAM though

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

of course, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is! Conversation with pissoff-home-phone:

 

- We can't find your address for the credit check [quite why they require a credit check for a 12-quid-a-month phone line is beyond me...it's not like we're in the 90s when one could easily run up massive bills]. Do you live in a new property?

- I 've just spent the best part of 15 minutes explaining to you that, contrary to what your system thinks, my flat has got a line which is still pretty much active. Wouldn't that make it obvious that people were actually living here before me? In any event, you did manage to find the address when I asked you to check whether my line can be reconnected.

- Oh, I guess you are right. I can see the block, but it doesn't give us specific flat numbers...It goes like 1-30....

- Hm that doesn't really make sense. Anyway, what can we do about it?

- I can print the screen, send it by e-mail to our special verification department where they will look into it and come back to me, and I will then call you again...

 

 

....by which time there probably won't be any DSL sync on the line!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo luxbury, with all due respect, why are you telling us the minute details of your telephone conversation with an internet provider?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Yo luxbury, with all due respect, why are you telling us the minute details of your telephone conversation with an internet provider?

 

because i'm frustrated that the sterling advice I got here may still not be enough for me to get this done....guess we could move this thread to GOM, together with the puncture!