August 21, 2004

[My Own Stuff] Fruitful day today

Weel today has certainly been fruitful. As I have ordered Eircom Broadband (I know, what have I done, with Eircom with all people), I have gone out to town today with the intention of burning my credit card to a cinder!
Shopping list (after I had a nice lunch at the Metro on Willaim St) was :
- Netgear WG511TGE 802.11g 108Meg CardBus Adapter (ok close enough)
- Netgear Wireless - 108 Mbps/802.11g - model WG311T
- Netgear Wireless - 802.11g - model WG602
- Maxtor DimondMax Plus 9
My next purchase was suppose to be a barebones PC, but I was looking for Aopen XC cube but seem to be out of stock in it-direct, so nearly ordered from dabs. Unfortunately komplett.ie did not have any, so I looked for a shuttle. None in stock. :( So I ordered from Peats, and yes I know, I should have walked there when I was in town. And I did. They had none in stock that I see on display. But I finally ordered it. Costs a wee bit more... about €280 (incl VAT and del)
My credit card is so toasted... and all this so I can have a router/firewall/file server for my family at home. :D

Oh, and talk about Eircom. Well, I rang them up through 1800 503 303 and sales picked up. Asking them why a technician never dropped by 2 days ago, like he promised (via phone call), the guy said with an exclamation, "Oh they have you down with homestarter pack, not technician". Hmm, I said I know, I ordered the homestarter pack (summer surf promotion, remember... self-install and free router). The extra was the technician on top as we have Eircom Phonewatch installed. We have all the stuff, just no technician. (I liked the flustered sales rep at this stage, such a stress relief from day-to-day work). He said he will pass it through straight away to the technician's department (heh, whatever, as long as someone gets out to the house). And will not get back to us till Monday, as there are only 10 people in at work today taking basic inquiries (like..boohoo, you get paid so grin and bear with it). So I will follow-up on Monday, if no-one arrives at my parents place. Ready and waiting, as I told him before I hung up, "there will be someone there everyday and at all times at the house" (no excuses this time). We'll just have to wait and see... wait and see...

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