Hey guys, just a quick hello from internet purgatory here.

Some of you mya have been wondering why I have been away for a while. Weel, the old saying, "if it doesn't rain, it pours" comes to mind for my situation.

It all began one sunny afternoon whilst I was trying to plan my holiday.......

When surfing the net for hotel sites and the like, I came across the fact that dial up is WAY too slow for the likes of most sites. As a result, my surfing was slow and very frustrating. My conclusion? Time to get me some Broadband access!!!

So I signed up for some iinet love, they seemed nioce and cheap for phone and internet and overall preety good, as most people I had talked to had sai that iinet was a good company, so I signed up.

Well, my phone got disconnected (as it does for them) and a week later (thankyou weekends and public holidays)I got a modem, but it would'nt sync with the line. Half a week later, a tech came out, got sync with his modem and said the modem was stuffed.

Aother half week later, I got another modem. Well, that one sync'ed ok, but only for about 3 seconds. So after much chatting to the people at iinet support (who were all very nice and friendly). A week later, I was advised to buy another brand modem (and they would take back the one from them).

So I got my other modem (third one and 3.5 weeks now) and that one looked like it sync'ed. Again after about 2 hours of freindly iinet support, I had it syncing with the line. I hung up the phone (my mobile coz the land line is connected to the modem....) and the thing drops out of sync.

Disbelief ensues....

More calling to support and watching the modem sync and then drop in and out for an hour and they decide to lodge a fault call so someone can come and check the line ( this happend 2 weeks ago....)

So that is where I am up to. I know there are net-cafe's around, but with full time work and full time study, followed up by holiday planning, I don't have time to get to them as there aren't any local one around.

So thats my story of woe. On thursday the 30th, October it will be 4 weeks of shenanigans.

Not sure how much longer it will take. I am working, using my mums dial-up connections for this now..... Oh what lows I have sunk to.