Ok...can anyone puzzle this out.

I got asked to help someone 'get their broadband up'

So I thought, no problem.

Get there, sort oyu te filter 9i te wrong place' configure the machine
to talk TCOP/IP stick it on a sensible addess, talk to router, set that
up, put machine back on shcp and reboot. Yup. We can get a DHCP lease
and see the router.

But no ADSL. No blinken lihten on router.

Phone up AOL who aksed f they wanteed to upgarde from dial up a month
ago, and they say 'there is no ADSL o that luiine: it was cancleeed in
October.

Well What theh hell
Who can Tell
with AOL

...as the song says, so we say FSCK AOL, lets order some real
broadband..trot over here to look up on internet, and decide IDNET or
ZEN would be a good place to start.

Try to order from IDNET and it says

Cant put ADSL on that line, there is an order pending on it?

WTF?

Try ZEN. Same result.

Anyine capale of intelligent guessing (s oppsoed to AOL who seem to make
up reasons n te spot) what is actually happening.

WE THINK a BT engineer was fiddling with the poles a week ago 'putting
broadband in' - leastways that is what he SAID,though why he had to
fiddle at a pole beats me.

TBH all we need to know is what has actually happened.

And if AOL DO put the line up, can we cancel out of their one year
contract, due to utter and complete crap QOS?

Technical, I can deal with, but utter icompetence & bullshit and all in
the dulcet tones of Mumbai, over a very bad internet phone line, is
beyond me..

198kHz wrote:
> "The Natural Philosopher" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> WE THINK a BT engineer was fiddling with the poles a week ago 'putting
>> broadband in' - leastways that is what he SAID,though why he had to
>> fiddle at a pole beats me.
>>
>
> Removing DACS?
>
>
Ah....now would dacs also be a possible way for two neighbour's phone
numbers to get 'swapped'?

I do believe you have a part of the thing.

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:04:38 +0000, The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>198kHz wrote:
>> "The Natural Philosopher" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> WE THINK a BT engineer was fiddling with the poles a week ago 'putting
>>> broadband in' - leastways that is what he SAID,though why he had to
>>> fiddle at a pole beats me.
>>>
>>
>> Removing DACS?
>>
>>
>Ah....now would dacs also be a possible way for two neighbour's phone
>numbers to get 'swapped'?
>

It sure can be. Two houses on my road were dacsed. One house was
signed up to Carphone Warehouse for rental, the other to Sky. The
Sky customer then signed up with Sky for BB. The dacs was correctly
removed but the lines got crossed. It took 5 days to get either Sky
or Carphone Warehouse to get it sorted. BT didn't want to know.
Though they were the cause of the problem!

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, BTDTGTTS
<none@?.?.invalid> writes
>>
>> Technical, I can deal with, but utter icompetence & bullshit and all in
>> the dulcet tones of Mumbai, over a very bad internet phone line, is beyond
>> me..
>
>
>Looking at the time of that post and the spelling I reckon the booze works
>fine though
>
>
>
Yep, he's a master of languages. Pity none of them are plain English :-)

--
Edward Cowling "'Cause onces a good girl goes bad
We gone forever"

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, BTDTGTTS
> <none@?.?.invalid> writes
>>>
>>> Technical, I can deal with, but utter icompetence & bullshit and all in
>>> the dulcet tones of Mumbai, over a very bad internet phone line, is
>>> beyond
>>> me..
>>
>>
>> Looking at the time of that post and the spelling I reckon the booze
>> works
>> fine though
>>
>>
>>
> Yep, he's a master of languages. Pity none of them are plain English :-)
>
Indeed. Mastery of language is one thing. 70wpm on two fingers is quite
another. Especially with wrong glasses on..

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, The Natural
Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
>> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, BTDTGTTS
>><none@?.?.invalid> writes
>>>>
>>>> Technical, I can deal with, but utter icompetence & bullshit and all in
>>>> the dulcet tones of Mumbai, over a very bad internet phone line, is
>>>>beyond
>>>> me..
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking at the time of that post and the spelling I reckon the booze
>>>works
>>> fine though
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yep, he's a master of languages. Pity none of them are plain English :-)
>>
>Indeed. Mastery of language is one thing. 70wpm on two fingers is quite
>another. Especially with wrong glasses on..
>
Sorry I humblie beg yor pedon :-)

--
Edward Cowling "'Cause onces a good girl goes bad
We gone forever"

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

<snip badly-typed proto-rant>

> Technical, I can deal with, but utter icompetence & bullshit and all in
> the dulcet tones of Mumbai,

You owe me a new irony-meter.

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