Hello World, and it’s so nice to be able to write that! Since around 2:00 A.M. Tuesday morning my Internet connection has been “timing out” … that is my modem sends out a request to open up to my server and it hits up against a sort of electronic rubber wall and pings back to me. So like a mad thing … the signal bounces bank and forth with the obvious result that I couldn’t connect to the Internet.
After waiting patiently to see if the problem would resolve itself, I called my server and spoke to one of their technicians. This is usually a frustrating process since they tell me to reconfigure my modem … and maybe my modem isn’t working etc. Of course they also tell me that they can’t see me (maybe because I’m not connected to Internet) anyway the long and the short is … eventually it comes back by itself. This time the guy really seemed to know what he was doing .. did some looking into the chronological history of my connections and saw that from 2:00 A.M. my modem kept connecting and disconnecting. He ran a few more tests and said that the connection was timing out ..and that he’d send a ticket to have it fixed.
The problem with my connection is that my server does not have their own lines and depend on Telecom Italy to serve their clients … and Telecom Italy have old lines and give priority to their own clients. That’s why my connection is slow and why there’s little that my server can do to better my service. But at least they can protest if my line isn’t working at all.
Now my modem connects to the Internet, the connection is just as bad as it was before but it does connect. (As I’m writing the connection just fell again, I’d opened a second tab on my browser and down came this house of cards, sigh). So, if all goes well, I’ll be able to post, but will keep having problems opening tabs, reading other people’s work and commenting.
Ciao … Bastet.
I love the dreamy feel of that house ..it’s almost of a story book
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Thanks .. It was intended to transmit the idea of being fogged in .. but in fact, I’ve used it before for poems .. Glad you enjoyed it.
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How frustrating for you!! I get that when my smart phone freezes 10 times a day when I try to check WP blogs and I want to literally smash it against the wall…I hold it real tight and breathe in, breathe out and realize I am a bit crazy. Don’t worry about my two blogs, cara…if you can read a bit through the reader or email…let it go at that…and send me an email once in a while to tell me how you are doing. Gros câlin mon amie:)
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You’re such an understanding person Cheryl-Lynn … Tuesday I was in one hell of a funk and realized that I too must be a bit crazy … and also nearly hyperventilated with all the breathe in and breathe out!!! It such an awful mess. I’m really going to have to change server.
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HOpe things sort out but please don’t worry about comments etc with other blogs…we are all grown-up now 😉
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I’m really going mad with this connection problem … and I’m afraid that not all of us are grown-up …
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WEll let me atem and I’ll punch a few for ya
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LOL … nice to have friends to protect me … smack xx!
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Yeah, I can be a real bully defending my kids and close friends:) and I’m no longer skinny so I can step on their feet and it will hurt 😉
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Well I’m not a willow any more either … but virtually one really can’t use ones weight I think! 😉
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But I’m very glad you are and thanks for the understanding!
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WP doesn’t work on my smart phone much either. Crashes constantly. Rrrr.
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I am switching soon for an IPhone (so I can facetime my granson:D) so we shall see if that is better
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Oh .. maybe an IPhone would work better.
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Oh I do hope so but it is really just to text and face time the kiddo:)
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One doesn’t exclude the other … and I heard their very good with the Internet. 🙂
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Well I only have a Nokia 202, I can read Wikipedia and Facbook … sometimes my e-mail but that’s all she wrote.
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It’s just funny because they talk about WP notifications being this cross-platform improvement— and it STINKS in each version! LOL
But I guess I shouldn’t complain. 🙂
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I have a dogy internet connection that drops out all the time too. I am using a USB stick wireless internet connection – it’s a cheap option over here. The technicians tells that if I get Wifi my problems will be solved but to do that I have to get a landline phone and spend much more money. I keep persevering but it can get really annoying when the weather is bad and the signal keeps dropping out. I hope you can get online today. 🙂
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So far so good .. mine is a land line and believe me it isn’t what it’s been made out to be .. of course I’m in a “remote” area … in the cities there are servers with fibre optic connections … sigh.
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Yes I’m a long way from capital cities too. Italy sounds similar to Oz in this regard. btw. I should have written dodgy internet in my first sentence. Not dogy 🙂
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Or the Twilight Zone .. as for dogy .. thought it might be Australian jargon 😉
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🙂
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Frustration is the only word that fits….and at times I know it well!
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Ah … i know I’m not alone in this but it is such a bother!
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Ack! Maddening.
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Great photo. Our government here in New Zealand has made it their mission to get ultra fast broadband around the whole country. Where I am living now we have a good connection and it is fast and reliable. In my previous rental we had a terrible connection, even though it is the same as we have now. Hopefully it will come right for you soon.
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Thanks for your comment and glad you liked the photo … sounds like I’d like to go live in New Zealand (which I’ve actually thought about from time to time)!
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A Quebec writer has been writing about the “best place to live in the world” and he is telling us all to go to New Zealand.
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I’ve seriously considered that at times … my brother-in-laws wife has a son who lives there and they have nothing but good to say about the country … and of course we’ve seen the countryside in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films 😉
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I have a few friends born and raised there but travelled a lot, lived here in Canada 20 years and are now in Australia.
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Wow .. takes a lot of courage to go back and forth between New Zeland, Canada and then off to Australia
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One friend is probably retiring in Australia although her close family is still in NZ
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Ugh. A real no-win situation. Here’s hoping the lines get upgraded sometime soon. (Not likely, I guess … but here’s hoping anyway.)
Will try to do a better job keeping on top of the comments at MLMM, okay? I feel so bad for you.
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Well … I don’t think the situation will get better any time soon .. I’ll either have to go to the Big Mamma Telecom (which really irks me) or find some other way to connect to Internet .. sigh.
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That’s a shame. Telecom companies are monopolies, really. Technically NOT … but … in reality, yes.
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Yes and literally in Italy it was the state telecommunications monopoly until around the year 2000 … the monopoly was broken by the cel phone believe it or not … that was new technology and not part of the monopoly… As the new industry grew in the 90s people stopped using land lines and Telecom lost lots of clients … finally the Gov decided to break up the monopoly and open the lines to new companies … but the land lines belong to Telecom and if the new companies don’t create their own lines (like in Padua where Fastweb put down optic fiber cabling) .. they have to rent from Telecom. In some areas the new companies have created new lines in most places (small towns etc.) they depend on Telecom. I’m lucky I don’t live in the mountains or I wouldn’t even have my slow DSL … the lines often don’t even make it up there!
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So …… even though the monopoly has been broken (on paper)… it reality it HASN’T been broken. And Telecom is probably sitting back, watching it all, saying, “serves them right”! 😡
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Something like that and the idea of going back to Telecom therefore really irks me. >:-(
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How frustrating! I’m glad you found someone who was able to help resolve your problem.
Last semester I took a class in International Relations and we had to choose a country to research. I chose Italy. I’m relying on my memory, which is not always reliable, but I believe that only about 55% of households in Italy have internet connections.
The photo is pretty.
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Couldn’t say how many have internet connections … quite a few actually. But we have some really rural areas … this is a very mountainous country. Glad you liked the photo!
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