Internet marketer on dialup
I’ve not been able to get online much for a couple of weeks, and to write this I’ve had to drive into town to use an internet cafe where I had to queue for 45 mins. Here’s why:
For a few weeks now my “broadband” internet connection has been so bad that I’ve been getting a download speed of around 5k rather than the 1500k or so that you’re probably on.
That’s when my microwave wireless setup is working at all.
But at 5k it might as well not be working anyway. I’ve had to turn off images in my Firefox web browser and then still wait ages for a page to load.
After getting worse for months it’s finally become unusable, so guess what? I’m going back to dial up 
Well dialup ISDN which promises speeds of up to 128k. I don’t like the idea, but my only other choices are to get satellite at a crazy $499 a month with a 4 gig a month download limit, or move house. And I don’t want to take either of those choices.
So from next Monday (due installation date) I’m probably going to be the only full-time internet marketer on dialup
Ok, the phone company called me a couple of hours ago and said “good news, we’ve got the ISDN equipment in stock and we can install it for you at 10 am on monday.”
I said thanks, I’ll be home waiting for you.
Ok, a different department from phone company called me 1 hour ago and told me that I can’t have ISDN because it’s not available in my area. So I told them my next door neighbour has it and so does another neighbour. So they said I must be on a different exchange. I told them that was impossible because there’s only one exchange and they said they’d call back.
They’ve just called back and they said that nope, I definately can’t have it because even though they’ve found that I am on the same exchange as my neighbours the exchange is full and there’s no room to put more ISDN equipment in and they have no plans to ever upgrade the exchange.
So I don’t know whats going to happen on monday. I’m hoping someone turns up, but I doubt it somehow. Or maybe they’ll turn up and install stuff here then find it can’t be switched on
because the exchange can’t handle it - that sounds the most likely thing to happen
Don’t know why I’ve put these smilies in. It’s not funny 
3 Comments on Internet marketer on dialup »
August 4, 2006
CJ @ 6:29 am:
I can understand EXACTLY what you are going through with your internet connection hassles Phil. Really.
We fought, kicked and screamed for 6 long weeks just to get the answer we didn’t want to hear… “sorry but you can only get dialup because this wire is not there and never will be… and the exchange doesn’t do that with this…. and even though your neighbour has something more than what you can have, you can’t get that either… unless you pay for a new rack in the exchange over there and cabling to the entire suburb over here…”
I can see where psychiatrists come into the mix.
So, we actually moved house. Good luck!
August 9, 2006
manguz colorado @ 5:48 pm:
What on earth has your Internet Connection got to do with Network Marketing……….I know without it, you’re NOTHING !!!
But! for goodness sake Phil,
How “bloody boring !!!”
August 28, 2006
Pamela Heywood @ 3:44 pm:
My sympathies Phil. I know, having had to put up with ISDN for seven years for most of the same reasons. I finally got DSL this year (only 500Mb), but I knew that moving house was previously the only remedy and, was one I was not prepared to consider either.
Mind you, the only thing that ISDN did give me was the ability to connect to the internet and still have a phone line available. The ISPs didn’t really support it, so I just got regular diallup over it, advertised to be 56k, but which, in reality clocked at about 14k. If yours work the same way, you may not have lost anything and, instead might have just saved more moeny, if they can’t give you the ISDN.
And, despite the last comments, this is relevant. On the one hand, it informs visitors why you might not be as available as you’d like. On the other, it says, “If I can survive doing this with a steam connection from the top of a remote mountain, then ANYONE can do it.”