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New home, and an unexpected wait for the internet

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Moving on out

We’ve had to move twice in 12 months. This gets old fast when it’s not by choice. However, we’re now in a new house and we’ve a level of certainty that we have not had recently.

But, there’s a problem with that.

It’s like 1985 in here…

There is no internet, and our mobile phone reception is marginal on a good day due to our distance from the nearest cell tower.

We’re waiting on an electrician to come in to trench out and replace the current conduit, which ends 25 metres short of the pit in the street, so that the broadband company can connect us up.

The result is that hopefully sometime in February we’ll have the internet connected and I’ll be able to upload January’s video.

1985 is better than I remember it in someways, but worse in others. For now I’ll keep working on thing’s here in the Turdis, and keep carrying on.

I just wish you could see me typing this on my phone. It would be nice if I could make my sausage fingers work on it, like they do on the keyboard.

I’ll be in touch in a week or two. Assuming we’ve arrived in 1997 by then. I wonder if my CompuServe account still works?

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The ‘…and we’re back…’ update – December 14, 2019

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Evening all;

At least here in Melbourne it’s a very late evening. What a saga getting the internet back on has been. So much for a few days. It took in all 14 days to move a service into (as Optus said) somewhere that has already been connected to the NBN.

A screw up at the get go, with Optus’ overseas helpdesk, saw them move our service to some random location in Ballarat, instead of into our new home in Melbourne. That took three days to sort out. Then NBN noticed that they could not see the terminating unit. In fact the original installers had not completed the job. Done the absolute minimum and not completed running the lead-in cable from the cable head in the pit a couple of doors down. The poor bloke they sent out (alone) to do the job was about pulling his hair out. So I stepped in and gave him a hand to run the cable in the street and get us up and going; almost.

Then Optus screwed up again, and no internet for another 48 hours until late this week. We are still in the midst of unpacking and setting up. The layout is still in its moving state and standing on end in the garage. Hoping to do a little more work tomorrow on one of my days off to carve out a space in that area for the layout and a worktable. There’s good northerly natural light in there.

More for you soon on the layout build with updated posts and pages as I create the new section from the original posts. Wiring is next. Lots of photos and a video to boot showing how I wire, as an old telephone tech, by comparison to some who’ve not the background I do. Hopefully some more on Tuesday to read. I have to get my son working on the video part.

Then I’ve got 9 days straight through until Christmas day to work. Oh the life of a tram driver. All the best and talk with you soon.

FInally; don’t forget the survey is still on. Drop by the link from the main page and take the survey to help me understand what it is that you are looking for.