Finally! After three years of wanting my own broadband connection, PLDT finally hooked me up with DSL. I’ve wanted this since our last place at Henares. Too bad the phone lines sucked. I couldn’t even get a decent speed with dial-up much less use DSL.

Last Friday PLDT woke me up at around 7:30am to ask me if I had all the hardware requirements. Even if my brain was still asleep I automatically recited to the tech all the stuff hooked up to my pc. After the call I drifted back to sleep still thinking I’m getting hooked up already. At around 9 the tech was at the house. I shook my sleep of in record time, guiding the tech to the “veins” of my home network. Eagerly waiting his installation, I was buzzing around him, checking to see if he missed anything. Then he hit the power.

After a minute of waiting, THE MODEM WOULDN’T SYNC! What that means is that no matter what you do, you won’t be able to log on. Panicking, the tech called their data center, had the line checked, wired a new line, changed modems; but nothing. No heartbeat. He told me he had to retreat and he would figure it out from the other end of the network. And that was that. I stayed home till about noon (I had a 2pm client meeting) waiting for word. It went on once and died. Even as I was out my mother was coordinating with me on the status. Finally at about 5 in the afternoon I got word that it was alive.

Unfortunately I couldn’t come home to test it. I had a gig. Two in fact. So I went and attended both. Played well (see previous posts), got blasted, then went home. So at some 5 in the morning there I was working on the home network. Making sure that when everyone woke up in the morning they’d be online.

This entry was posted by Frank, on Thursday, November 25, 2004. You can leave your response.