I’m back online
It’s been a while since I last wrote a newsletter. It’s just that I got back from my 10 week long overseas jaunt, attending Yanik’s Underground Seminar in Washington and Jim Edwards Ebook Workshop in London among other things, to find my internet connection no longer existed.
After a lot of pleading I finally got it back today, but I don’t know how long for.
But it really looks like I’m going to totally lose my broadband connection and have to get the next best alternative, ISDN at 128k. It’s a real downer.
The ISP wants to get rid of me because I’m costing them money because they have to keep coming and fixing my weird connection (microwave wireless). Something - and they can’t discover what - keeps interfering with the signal and they have to send a technician up into the mountains to reset it/fix it.
As I’m their only customer on microwave (the rest of their customers are in town) I can quite see why they want me off their books.
Because I live too far from a telephone exchange I can’t get ADSL here, and cable hasn’t even been dreamt of in this remote neck of the woods. I can get a satellite internet connection but I’ve tried it in the past and found it next to useless. We get a lot of electrical storms and it simply doesn’t work when theirs lightning around. But the main reason I don’t like it is that it’s AU$499 a month (US$373) for a slowish speed and a 2gig a month download limit, which I really don’t feel like paying … it’s such a rip off.
Anyhow….for now I’m back online, and they say if the reliability doesn’t improve within two or three weeks they’ll have no option but to permanently cut me off.
