My Worst Nightmare

[John the Moth]

Moved into a new apartment last weekend, so ordered a new broadband service the week before moving in. Vodafone. Don't bother. Asked for modem to be delivered to Mrs Moths work because it needed to be signed for. Courier let any old Tom Dick or Harry sign for it and it promptly disappeared!! 2nd "Priority delivery"... 3 to 6 days delivery!!!! To top it off the line, which we were told was connected on Sep 30 is dead, up to 3 days for a techie to take a look!!!!! 

So effin angry right now!!! Oh well bought extra data for the mobile ahead of the ticket sale and hoping its up to the task! Still got others in the group trying, but our chances are cut  

[Quark]

Mate, that sucks on many levels.  Any chance of "borrowing" a friend's house on Sunday morning?

[John the Moth]

I'm really really hoping it's fixed for Sunday, but yeah can go round Mrs Moth's folks Sunday if need be, we usually book coaches in the Thursday sale though. Hoping a mate gets through tonight. All's not lost, just needed to vent a little. 

[Charm]

So sorry to hear this, hope your mate gets lucky for you, maybe trying at your local library tonight would be a good idea. 
Charm x

[John the Moth]

Thanks! My local is not open though unfortunately, circumstances dictate it's my phone or nothing! Was thinking about hotspotting my laptop through my phone but connectivity beats ease of use I think.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, John the Moth said:

Thanks! My local is not open though unfortunately, circumstances dictate it's my phone or nothing! Was thinking about hotspotting my laptop through my phone but connectivity beats ease of use I think.

Do you mean you're considering using your phone directly rather than hotspotting?  If that's the choice, I would definitely hotspot. The faster copy+paste on the laptop more than makes up for the tiny extra latency involved in tethering.

Even better, go somewhere with proper Internet.

[John the Moth]

Advice appreciated, thank you Mr Hats

[tullux]

keep your head up, john.

at least erverything will be fine.

i promise!

[stuartbert two hats]

14 minutes ago, John the Moth said:

Advice appreciated, thank you Mr Hats

You're welcome.  I might be talking bollocks of course, but I don't think so in this case

[dentalplan]

3 hours ago, Charm said:

So sorry to hear this, hope your mate gets lucky for you, maybe trying at your local library tonight would be a good idea. 
Charm x

I pretty much did this when I had a delay in broadband arriving when moving house. Only person in the uni library at 8:30am Sunday.

They have wifi at all sorts of cafes and stuff now tho. Plus, not sure about other providers but O2 have that app with a map of places they provide wifi. I'd make 4G a last resort.

[rebeccaa94]

Similar thing happened to me in 2015 and ended up in a mad panic using the wifi in starbucks as it was the only place open before 9 on a Sunday. If you're desperate check your local mcdonalds, coffee/breakfast type places as a lot of them offer free wifi! 

[Hugh Jass]

6 hours ago, John the Moth said:

Moved into a new apartment last weekend, so ordered a new broadband service the week before moving in. Vodafone. Don't bother. Asked for modem to be delivered to Mrs Moths work because it needed to be signed for. Courier let any old Tom Dick or Harry sign for it and it promptly disappeared!! 2nd "Priority delivery"... 3 to 6 days delivery!!!! To top it off the line, which we were told was connected on Sep 30 is dead, up to 3 days for a techie to take a look!!!!!

So effin angry right now!!! Oh well bought extra data for the mobile ahead of the ticket sale and hoping its up to the task! Still got others in the group trying, but our chances are cut 

As a fellow Baggie I hope you get through.

[Miesh]

My old mobile on 4G got us tickets last year.  Modern devices on WiFi didn't. 

Good luck!

[John the Moth]

Whoop whoop! Nailed it with laptop tethered to iPhone on 3G!!!!! 

[Miesh]

1 hour ago, John the Moth said:

Whoop whoop! Nailed it with laptop tethered to iPhone on 3G!!!!! 

Brilliant news! Well done. Very pleased for you 

[tullux]

10 hours ago, tullux said:

keep your head up, john.

at least erverything will be fine.

i promise!

as i said, congratulations!

[John the Moth]

Thanks guys!

I'm still fuming about the broadband though, but at least the edge is taken off now : )

[Quark]

13 hours ago, John the Moth said:

Whoop whoop! Nailed it with laptop tethered to iPhone on 3G!!!!! 

[Mr.Tease]

On 06/10/2016 at 8:38 AM, John the Moth said:

Moved into a new apartment last weekend, so ordered a new broadband service the week before moving in. Vodafone. Don't bother. Asked for modem to be delivered to Mrs Moths work because it needed to be signed for. Courier let any old Tom Dick or Harry sign for it and it promptly disappeared!! 2nd "Priority delivery"... 3 to 6 days delivery!!!! To top it off the line, which we were told was connected on Sep 30 is dead, up to 3 days for a techie to take a look!!!!! 

So effin angry right now!!! Oh well bought extra data for the mobile ahead of the ticket sale and hoping its up to the task! Still got others in the group trying, but our chances are cut  

I'm stuck using a 3g 4g phone this year- I'm not as effective at refreshing using it, but a fair few people have had success getting tickets on their phone, so you never know.