Bermuda Triangle of Greenwood
Oct. 27th, 2009 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Tired of at least 5 days of continuous poor connection speed I finally girded my loins to call 3 technical support to find out if it was just me. The good news is that there's a known coverage fault in the local area, it's been escalated, and that they're working on the problem. The bad news is I was offered a discount for the next six months which makes me think it's not about to get better soon. YouTube is off the agenda for a while. Again.
We have bad landlines here (no ADSL and scratchy dialup), and the mobile coverage is laughable, so this doesn't surprise me particularly. The TV reception is OK but not flawless. Next stop: satellite dish. Or tin cans with string. I could borrow Dad's ham radio gear...
As time goes by and the problems seem to get worse I can't help but wonder what this isolation is doing to the real estate value of Sector 7.
We have bad landlines here (no ADSL and scratchy dialup), and the mobile coverage is laughable, so this doesn't surprise me particularly. The TV reception is OK but not flawless. Next stop: satellite dish. Or tin cans with string. I could borrow Dad's ham radio gear...
As time goes by and the problems seem to get worse I can't help but wonder what this isolation is doing to the real estate value of Sector 7.
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Date: 2009-10-27 06:27 am (UTC)I reassure myself with the thought that, when the apocalypse comes, there will be a military presence here, guarding the power lines. Also, I could probably make toast by putting bread on a stick and holding it out of the front door.
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Date: 2009-10-27 07:52 am (UTC)Have the lines been humming spectacularly in the humid weather?
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Date: 2009-10-27 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 07:58 am (UTC)As for our huge wealth, WA's been subsidising the parasitic eastern states for decades :P
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Date: 2009-10-27 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-28 10:19 am (UTC)Greedy, short-sighted fools.
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Date: 2009-10-27 07:22 am (UTC)Sounds like the houses in your area will be a bargain to snap up, just before the NBN gets here in 10 years!
prk.
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Date: 2009-10-27 07:50 am (UTC)That said, this is a very good area for investment if you'd like to join us. A couple of blocks away the signal strength is probably OK.
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Date: 2009-10-27 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-28 10:18 am (UTC)Sadly it seems you don't have any other option. ;_;
And I *loathe* dealing with MBB problems at work, 'cause most of the time the options are: try it somewhere else, or give it up as a bad job. I hate that.