Black_Apalachi
21-06-2010, 11:51 PM
OK firstly there's our internet connection which is **** to say the least. It's from a company you probably haven't heard of called United Utilities and probably almost every day I get periods where my laptop loses the connection (and just says 'Local Only'). The problem occurs with mine and my brother's laptops and both our game consoles but doesn't affects my mum's PC so we've derived the fact it's a problem relating to wireless.
Now, when ours is on the blink I automatically click the little double screens icon where I usually find a list of a good dozen or so connections in my area and more often than not there are three or four unsecured ones YES I KNOW IT'S BAD BUT THE MOST I EVER DO IS THIS AND FACEBOOK so I'll just connect to one of those for a little while until mine comes back.
So, given the fact our **** connection happens to be from a company I've never heard of and for all I know could have been founded by my mum lol, we've been pestering our mum for months, maybe even a year now, to change company. However she is adamant (after consulting the company and other experts) that it is all down to our local exchange and so there is nothing that can be done.
tl;dr BUT -REP TO COMMENTS WHICH ARE ANSWERED IN THE TEXT WALL :P
- crap internet
- because of obsolete company?
- other connections usually work fine even though they have less bars of signal
- ALTHOUGH LATELY THEY'VE ALL BEEN SIMILAR IN THAT THEY STOP AND START ALL THE TIME
Also I've just realised one of the ones I can use is BTFON which apparently is like a free hotspot? I'm actually on that one now but it's weak and is still doing stop/start (in fact it's gone off as I typed this thread so I'm waiting for it to come back so I can post it... ;l)
+REP FOR USFUL INFO THANKS xx
Now, when ours is on the blink I automatically click the little double screens icon where I usually find a list of a good dozen or so connections in my area and more often than not there are three or four unsecured ones YES I KNOW IT'S BAD BUT THE MOST I EVER DO IS THIS AND FACEBOOK so I'll just connect to one of those for a little while until mine comes back.
So, given the fact our **** connection happens to be from a company I've never heard of and for all I know could have been founded by my mum lol, we've been pestering our mum for months, maybe even a year now, to change company. However she is adamant (after consulting the company and other experts) that it is all down to our local exchange and so there is nothing that can be done.
tl;dr BUT -REP TO COMMENTS WHICH ARE ANSWERED IN THE TEXT WALL :P
- crap internet
- because of obsolete company?
- other connections usually work fine even though they have less bars of signal
- ALTHOUGH LATELY THEY'VE ALL BEEN SIMILAR IN THAT THEY STOP AND START ALL THE TIME
Also I've just realised one of the ones I can use is BTFON which apparently is like a free hotspot? I'm actually on that one now but it's weak and is still doing stop/start (in fact it's gone off as I typed this thread so I'm waiting for it to come back so I can post it... ;l)
+REP FOR USFUL INFO THANKS xx