Woohoo yesterday I woke to see a green light on the NBN box. Excitedly I logged in with my phone to experience über fast Internet but was met with nothing.
Surely this is a joke.
I ring iinet, assuming they have paused the service until they are advised everything is fixed. In a comedy of errors they tell me they can't reinstate the service until NBN officially tells them to. They call NBN and can't get through. I call our NBN contact who says everything is fine, they have the info, put pressure on them. Go back to iinet, they get hold of NBN who tell them there is still a network error. Back to our NBN contact who goes off to fix whatever is going wrong. Day 4 since install. Still no internet. Still no phone. This is becoming a joke.
Monday 12 August 2013
Saturday 10 August 2013
Pendant Lights
Very lucky to have Dad spend the day with us on Saturday helping to install some of our pendant lights. It had taken us ages to agree on a light for the kitchen - funny how that happens. The kitchen table light was a quick decision - bought whilst we were deciding on the carpet quote. The kitchen lights though were a completely different story. There were many lights that we liked individually but it was next to impossible to agree on a light together.
On a trip to Prospect to find a fabled new interior store we gave up after not locating it and went into Beacon in the hope of finding something, and if not the exact light some inspiration. I was starting to give up after we kept looking at lights that one of us said no to when Doug finally poured out a glass/wooden option that I adored! Quickly I agreed that we should get them for fear that this moment would not come again
Whilst the sales person was out the back making sure they had two we were still looking around. I had seen the perfect light on The Block for our bedroom a couple of weeks earlier but it seemed that they were sold out when I went looking online so had found an alternative that I hadn't quite ordered online yet. And lucky I hadn't! Doug and I stumbled upon the last two in NSW. What a find! Such a successful day that was then matched by Ike's shopping.
Apart from the pretty lights Dad has also installed the ensuite heat light with exhaust fan. As the weather is getting colder very quickly I am very happy to have that in. He'll be back soon to put in the bedroom lights, but I think I want to get in with some feature paint first.
I am a very lucky girl to have a Dad like mine.
On a trip to Prospect to find a fabled new interior store we gave up after not locating it and went into Beacon in the hope of finding something, and if not the exact light some inspiration. I was starting to give up after we kept looking at lights that one of us said no to when Doug finally poured out a glass/wooden option that I adored! Quickly I agreed that we should get them for fear that this moment would not come again
Whilst the sales person was out the back making sure they had two we were still looking around. I had seen the perfect light on The Block for our bedroom a couple of weeks earlier but it seemed that they were sold out when I went looking online so had found an alternative that I hadn't quite ordered online yet. And lucky I hadn't! Doug and I stumbled upon the last two in NSW. What a find! Such a successful day that was then matched by Ike's shopping.
Apart from the pretty lights Dad has also installed the ensuite heat light with exhaust fan. As the weather is getting colder very quickly I am very happy to have that in. He'll be back soon to put in the bedroom lights, but I think I want to get in with some feature paint first.
I am a very lucky girl to have a Dad like mine.
Waiting for a little red light to turn green - or the NBN waiting game
I have all these wonderful posts ready to be written and uploaded with their appropriate photos, but no Internet. It is so disappointing.
Since moving into The Ponds the neighborhood has been wonderful - great friendly Neighbours up and down the street, beautiful parks to enjoy and long winding walking tracks that allow you to actively explore but the biggest and most annoying downfall is the lack of communication services. The Ponds has the lovely benefit of being in a complete black hole to mobile service and when my telco investigated with Optus, the service provider, about this we were told Optus have no plans in the near future to rectify this. Admittedly there are two places in our house we can get some bars of service - my side of the bed (not Doug's) and in an alcove in the kitchen and random service will appear for lightening fast moments in other sections but these will be enough service for your phone to ring but not for the caller to be able to hear you. Helpful. None of these points are consistent, they ebb and flow like a meandering river. Most of the time our great 3G network is reduced to Edge which is pretty much like being stuck on dial up. I am getting very good at playing "statues" as I try to keep service.
But not to worry a lot of posts were written on the train on the way into work. And then I got slack. And then I ended up in hospital with a detached retina in both eyes. Right eye has been operated on and I am in week number 3 of a 6 week healing time before I get to go through it all again for eye number two. I can't work. I can't drive. I am stuck at home unable to lift anything heavy or work in the garden (by garden I mean clay pit). So I long for Internet. I long for a phone service that I can use anywhere in the house.
Finally we received word on Monday that we were NBN live after months of fighting by our Neighbours who have been in since February to get the system working (not happy Landcom - apparently your advertised "NBN ready when you move in" commitments aren't worth a bar of soap). On Friday NBN were at the house connecting the various different boxes that provide the holy grail of Internet that takes us out of the dark ages. Mr NBN tells me he's going to have to head to the connection box up the street because the access light is red, not green. He comes back. The light is still red. "Well it seems you aren't really live. This happened in Windsor and it took weeks to fix". What!? He's reported it. I've called our Critical Case Worker. He's on to it and "hopefully" we will have a green light by Monday. Tuesday at the latest. I hope he is right, I have episodes of True Blood and Games of Thrones to watch.
Since moving into The Ponds the neighborhood has been wonderful - great friendly Neighbours up and down the street, beautiful parks to enjoy and long winding walking tracks that allow you to actively explore but the biggest and most annoying downfall is the lack of communication services. The Ponds has the lovely benefit of being in a complete black hole to mobile service and when my telco investigated with Optus, the service provider, about this we were told Optus have no plans in the near future to rectify this. Admittedly there are two places in our house we can get some bars of service - my side of the bed (not Doug's) and in an alcove in the kitchen and random service will appear for lightening fast moments in other sections but these will be enough service for your phone to ring but not for the caller to be able to hear you. Helpful. None of these points are consistent, they ebb and flow like a meandering river. Most of the time our great 3G network is reduced to Edge which is pretty much like being stuck on dial up. I am getting very good at playing "statues" as I try to keep service.
But not to worry a lot of posts were written on the train on the way into work. And then I got slack. And then I ended up in hospital with a detached retina in both eyes. Right eye has been operated on and I am in week number 3 of a 6 week healing time before I get to go through it all again for eye number two. I can't work. I can't drive. I am stuck at home unable to lift anything heavy or work in the garden (by garden I mean clay pit). So I long for Internet. I long for a phone service that I can use anywhere in the house.
Finally we received word on Monday that we were NBN live after months of fighting by our Neighbours who have been in since February to get the system working (not happy Landcom - apparently your advertised "NBN ready when you move in" commitments aren't worth a bar of soap). On Friday NBN were at the house connecting the various different boxes that provide the holy grail of Internet that takes us out of the dark ages. Mr NBN tells me he's going to have to head to the connection box up the street because the access light is red, not green. He comes back. The light is still red. "Well it seems you aren't really live. This happened in Windsor and it took weeks to fix". What!? He's reported it. I've called our Critical Case Worker. He's on to it and "hopefully" we will have a green light by Monday. Tuesday at the latest. I hope he is right, I have episodes of True Blood and Games of Thrones to watch.
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