Tech makes things easier, right? People can get things done faster, see results, be more productive ?????
The last few weeks (not counting) have driven me nuts, nuttier, and gangbuster nuts.
Why?
It’s the internet.
Again.
We have what’s called the National Broadband Network. Lots of fancy words to make it sound super-duper groovy, never-go-without-connection cool …
The truth?
I spend a bit of time each day going through posts and stuff online, but when I try to like or read or click on or … well, any-bloody-thing – then it all slows down to a drag, flickers on and off so I lose any online work I’d done, and the likes and comments never happen ‘cos the connection gets cut off and not saved!
Grrr! Aaarrrrrrgh! and much more.
Trust me, I’m not ignoring anyone, but I can’t stay online for more than ten or so seconds at a time and if I have to wait (that crazy swirling little circle thing I’ve started getting a crush on), then it comes back with no memory of what I was doing, where, or to whom.
I swear and stamp and do a lolly, but it doesn’t help.
However, the world will one day emerge …
Should I hold my breath for the internet will improve?
No, I didn’t think so.
Maybe I’ll see you on the other side.
Cage Dunn - Fibber, Fabricator, Teller-of-Tall-Tales 
Yikes. Hang in there. 🙂
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the only way it can get worse is if it stops … maybe I shouldn’t mention that
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Knock on wood immediately!
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I haven’t experienced problems quite that severe. But I have noticed a definite slowing of connections. A yawn and reluctance to perform. Too many fingers tickling its tummy.
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Way too many. It’s always been bad in this area, now it’s worse, and constantly flickering, never a stable connection.
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Not good. I’m assuming it’s cos so many people are working from home, servers can’t cope, and many internet connections (mine) still rely on old phone lines, and many people share those lines till it comes to the division into personal space. But I’m no IT tech, so I’m only assuming
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The NBN was supposed to fix the problems you mention by doing direct node stuff. I’m still waiting
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Yea. Understood
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In these days of isolation, THAT problem would drive me to throw my laptop right out the window! I’d avoid getting on. Have you tried a different time? Like one in the morning?
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I generally try to work from 0600 to 1100 because the rest of the day is crazy, but now it’s 24 hours. And even now, at six o’clock in the blessed a.m. the light flickers on and off every few seconds. I have to do stuff quick, have a backup ready all the time. And I can’t back up the likes and comments I make on other sites, and when they don’t take I just get cranky (that’s me, Cranky Old Fart, aka COF Syndrome).
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Fortunately, my internet has been consistent throughout this ordeal. I hope by saying that, I didn’t put a jinx on it.
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Me, too! No jinxing it, Fandango.
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Gangbuster Nuts – that sounds like me!
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It’s a good use of wordage (I stole it from a nephew).
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Same with us here – we are in a semi-rural area, hardly remote countryside.
The net effect of us all working from home plus all the kiddos home schooling has created a knuckle-chewing, desk-biting, hair-pulling experience.
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It’s a nightmare, and I’m not even semi-rural – right in the middle of surburbia, across the road from a pub and two schools within kicking distance. The rural areas would be suffering considerably more than me.
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Way too many people using up the bandwidth that was never going to be sufficient for the users is had before 2020. Working offline is looking very attractive about now!.
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I think what annoys me most is that I comment and like posts, but get kicked out so often that nothing ‘sticks’. I can respond on my own posts, so why not the others? The only explanation that makes any sense is the constant waiting, waiting, waiting circle of doom – which then kicks me out of the
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Ick. I’m holding on to ADSL 2 for dear life. I’ll never forgive M. Turnbull for killing the dream of high speed internet. Heartfelt commiseration. 😦
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And today was a full-scale power-cut – and internet, of course, and no access to Telstra Air or Fon! Such fun.
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Power cut? Why on earth? It’s not as if everyone’s using the airconditioner.
Commiserations. Not fun at all.
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