Smoleskis Land

A week to the day (almost to the minute) my broadband suddenly came back to life. Odd.
What is odder still, I called ntl customer services that morning to ask if I would have to ask for a rebate on the rental. After some discussion, and the person at the end of the phone uttering dismay at what I told her, she discounted my rental until the end of March.
She then realised that I was on the 1.5mb service when I was paying for the 750kb service. I told her that I asked for the lower speed some months ago, August I think, and called them twice saying I was paying for the 750 but getting 1.5.
I also told her that it wasn’t my fault that ntl were inefficient. It took them 4 months to disconnect my phone!
I went on to say that I had ordered ADSL on my BT live and it’s due on 7 February. Like I said, strange that I should get reconnected the day I tell them I’m going to leave ntl.
When it came back, it was the slower speed. Harldy notice the difference, so going to 512 on ADSL won’t too much of a problem, especially as I like the higher upload speed.
Just got to wait till Monday for ADSL. Everything is wired up and ready. Hopefully, it will work. As the crow flies, I live within the adsl limits, but cable length will tell.
I’ll let you know Monday.

Oh dear.
Last Wednesday, my broadband connection went down. Not a happy bunny, me!
I called the support line. Ha! Support; they don’t know the meaning of the word.
No problems in you area, they said. There is, said I. I’ve got no internet.
They checked again and discovered that there is a problem that might be affecting some people.
Postcodes from CM17 all the way to CM23 were affected by some system maintenance. This is somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people.
According to the dictionary, it means:
The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained.
The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep.