Online Again!

Yes, it finally happened! After 3 weeks of climbing the walls with no internet connection, BT finally got their act together and flicked the switch to get our connection back up. Not that it wasn't without it's final bit of drama though.

I got a phone call at work on Monday (19th), saying the Sky order was complete and the line was live. Great stuff, I thought. When I got home, I re-booted the router, plugged it all back in and waited for the lights to come on. Power? Check. LAN 1? Check. LAN 2? Check. Internet? Nope. Please? No. I'll give you a biscuit. Bugger off.

After a final call to Sky, they told me BT had fixed the exchange problem but hadn't actually activated the line. Obviously it does take computers a long time to load, and after 6 weeks I was a bit silly to expect it might have been done and ready for us. They said they'd contact them and it would be done within 48 hours, but allow a maximum of 72 for it to complete. Don't ask me about the logic of that one. It's like saying 3 is definitely between 2 and 4, but you should allow it to be 5.

Anyway, turns out we only had to wait a couple of hours, since on a whim I decided to plug it back in as I was passing. Power? Check. LAN 1? Check. LAN 2? Check. Internet? Yes! Yes? Yup, internet access. Are you sure? I said yes, didn't I? I love you! Steady now.

Connection seems to be stable enough now that it's all going though. And I saw my first 2mb download rate a couple of nights ago. Didn't last long, but it was definitely over 1000k/s for a little while. Yay!