{"id":94,"date":"2006-07-24T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T10:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bananasplit.info\/?p=94"},"modified":"2006-07-24T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T10:46:05","slug":"broadband-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re sorry, all of our operators are currently busy.  You are at queue postition 13.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When you lose broadband access, operate lots of services and need the Internet to do your job, queue postition 13 clearly is not a good place to be, and I seem to have spent a lot of time in this position over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Since moving to St Mellion, our Internet connection has been at best, intermittent.  Over the last four days it&#8217;s been completely dead for three of them.  Getting something done about it is a tricky matter as the ISP is the point of contact but the problem is almost certainly British Telecom&#8217;s.  This means I never get to rant at anyone with the power to actually make something happen.  On the phone to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nildram.co.uk\">Nildram<\/a> again now, (queue position 17) and I&#8217;ve already resigned myself to hearing that nothing has changed since the last time I called them.  I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nildram.co.uk\">Nildram<\/a> but I&#8217;m starting to wonder if I need to threaten to close my account in order to actually get something done.  For my business broadband I&#8217;m paying around \u00c2\u00a32.50\/day.  Why should I pay when I don&#8217;t have the service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re sorry, all of our operators are currently busy. You are at queue postition 13.&#8221; When you lose broadband access, operate lots of services and need the Internet to do your job, queue postition 13 clearly is not a good place to be, and I seem to have spent a lot of time in this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=94\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadband Access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}