MOANY TIMES

Once again the upload is proving difficult. The fact of the matter is that broadband in Ireland is a joke (to coin a very Irish moany cliche). I'm using an Apple computer. By all accounts the Wi Fi where I am is at full strenght (according to the little thingy in the corner of the screen), but the truth is that for whatever reason that is not the case. I am taking broadband from NetGear where I am. It aint working.

At home we have Clearwire. I am unappologetic in saying that is highly unreliable too. They give you broadband in a box, or so they say.

For 40/50 quid a month, they send you a crappy looking black box, with a regular looking phone line cable thingy. You plug the box in, and hey presto, you should have broadband.

Well not quite, because you have to have the box near a window to get the signal. The problem is it dosnt work near all windows, and you have to find the direction the signal is coming from. Therefore you might find you can only use broadband in your bathroom.

Even when you find the signal, its still unreliable. It comes and goes. Its strenght varies. Sometimes it dosn't work at all. When it goes at weekends you know your in trouble. You get the sense that they don't employ people to work weekends to solve such problems, and you'll have to wait till Monday morning before people are back in. Only then will they go...

'ooooh, the internet went off again...let me just press this button'

Thats such an Irish thing. Office hours, working hours, 10 - 5, except on Fridays when its 10 - 4. Have you ever noticed the way companies schedule office parties for Thursday nights aswell. Effectively excusing people from working on the Friday.

Last week I went to a pub to watch the football via the Premiership Plus package the pub has subscribed to. Same problem. No signal coming through. But they could phone nobody, because...ahh sure...can't work on weekends. Ofcoarse, most of the football is at weekends. You'd imagine they would man the stations espcially at those times.

You get the idea of what I'm getting at.

And by the way, if your at an office desk...what are you doing? Get back to work!!!

No wait, I have more of a moan.

Has anyone seen that new building opposite Thomas Reads, next to Dublin castle. They have just put strip green lighting all over it. I dunno...

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