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dial-up networking from hell
Jul. 26th, 2004 10:14 pmI'm covered in cobwebs and dead woodlice - no one ever said installing broadband would be easy. No, actually, they did - bastards.
It worked fine for about an hour, then it refused to go on. The man on the phone says it's to do with my dial-up networking, whatever that means. So far tonight I've: spent a pile of cash on a fancy high speed modem cable, crawled around in dusty corners full of dead woodlice fiddling with hard to reach phone jacks, spent 20 minutes and a lot of cash on a phone call to the helpline, and had to search out my copy of Windows 98 from the spider-web covered boxes of crap under my desk. I've done so many reinstallation of the modem software that my hard drive's getting dizzy.
I've installed dial-up networking patch 1.4 for Win98, now all I need to do, in theory, is to reinstall the modem software. So, here goes. It better work this time, otherwise I'm throwing an official tantrum. See you on the other side, I'm hoping.
It worked fine for about an hour, then it refused to go on. The man on the phone says it's to do with my dial-up networking, whatever that means. So far tonight I've: spent a pile of cash on a fancy high speed modem cable, crawled around in dusty corners full of dead woodlice fiddling with hard to reach phone jacks, spent 20 minutes and a lot of cash on a phone call to the helpline, and had to search out my copy of Windows 98 from the spider-web covered boxes of crap under my desk. I've done so many reinstallation of the modem software that my hard drive's getting dizzy.
I've installed dial-up networking patch 1.4 for Win98, now all I need to do, in theory, is to reinstall the modem software. So, here goes. It better work this time, otherwise I'm throwing an official tantrum. See you on the other side, I'm hoping.