XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 28/06/2024 à 08:28, Aidan Kehoe a écrit :   
   >   
   > Our home broadband was cut off a couple of weeks ago; it’s under our   
   landlord’s   
   > name with Vodafone, and he never set up a direct debit or anything of the   
   sort,   
   > so it was in arrears. The phone customer service experience was horrendous,   
   > just nothing joined-up (we’ve nothing better in English to render German   
   > »konsequent« in this meaning), they didn’t seem to be making any notes of   
   > previous phone calls, despite my repeatedly being added as an authorised   
   > contact they refused to discuss the connection with me, throwing money at the   
   > problem made no difference. The English comprehension was fine, but the whole   
   > experience was a more severe example of the sort of obstructionist aversion   
   to   
   > doing the job they are paid for that I have dealt with in doctor colleagues   
   > from that general part of the world.   
   >   
   > My other half was tolerating the lack of internet and phone poorly (we have   
   no   
   > mobile phone reception so hotspotting from a mobile does not work) and her   
   mood   
   > noticeably lifted when we got Starlink working yesterday evening.   
   >   
   > An advantage to being Polish or Hungarian at this point; not practical to   
   > outsource phone support to the third world. It’s unusual to have lack of   
   > widespread comprehension of one’s language be a relative advantage in   
   one’s   
   > quality of life, I can’t quickly think of another instance of this.   
      
   I'm glad you've found a solution.   
      
   We often stay in French gîtes, where the Internet is a lottery. Fibre   
   has now been laid to most of them, but they are not always connected to   
   it. If the owners are close by, the wi-fi is often piggy-backed off   
   theirs, and can be erratic. Mobile coverage is often weak, but if the   
   not-spot is not too notty, moving the phone about, e.g. parking it   
   outside on a windowsill, can allow hot-spotting. And, of course, since   
   we're roaming, the phones have a choice of at least three French   
   networks (Orange, SFR, and Bouygues - but not Free, I think).   
      
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