The request has been time out!
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Date: 16 March 2010 08:48:35
Our home internet connection is working today after more than three weeks of... er... not working. This has been annoying and expensive. My Blackberry has been good, but for things that work better on a proper computer I've been using a couple of pre-paid 3G modems (the USB stick ones). They're on different phone networks, and I must say that my prejudice against the nation's biggest phone company has not been lessened by my experiences with their 3G internet.
I tried their modem on the Windows XP desktop first. First go elicited a blue screen of death. Second go elicited a blue screen of death. Third go we got stuck on the loading screen.
Next on the Macbook - software installed ok. Then came the bit where we try to put money on the account. This took about 45 minutes, partly due to the terrible interface but mainly because of "the request has been time out!" again and again and again.
Eventually we won the right to put some credit on the account. Unfortunately you don't actually know what you're buying until you've bought it and can access the company's web site to see that your $lots bought minimalMb.
In other news, I am glad that the ADSL2+ connection is going again. Very glad.