Get On, Clip In, Fall Off

The end of the world is nigh!

Seeing as how I was all excited (in that geeky kind of way) at the prospect of the ADSL connection in the new flat going live next Thursday, I spent some time yesterday evening connecting everything up and configuring the ADSL router so that everything would be ready when the connection went live.

Imagine, therefore, my annoyance when I was online earlier today over some steam-powered device called a "modem" and the connection went down. No dialtone on the line. I was about to ring BT and moan at them when the words "jumpering onto a DSLAM" floated through my mind. Could it be...?

Dialtone returned a few minutes later, so I powered the ADSL router up experimentally. It synced up happily and the PPPoATM link came up. I had ADSL five days earlier than scheduled, and only six days after placing the initial order through Demon. I'm in shock. This must be an omen.

Still, it's nice and fast. As I said before - once you've had fast network access at home it's kind of a shock when it goes away.