So I waited around today for my DSL activation; the Bell technician arrived around 11:00, and it took him about an hour and a bit to wire up a new data jack. After doing that, and then calling the central office to make sure that it was working, he left. In the meantime I called istop to find out where the modem was, and they said that they'd forgotten, and that I'd have to go pick it up. But their DSLAM is down today anyways, since a card inside it fried last night. They don't expect it back up until tomorrow morning.


Picked up the Alcatel DSL modem from istop, and plugged it in, but I can't tell if it's working or not, since the "line sync" light won't go solid until their DSLAM is fixed. Plus, istop thinks that Bell wired our place incorrectly, or didn't finish.


After all this, and waiting almost a full month for activation, they still haven't assigned me IP's, although last week, they claimed that they had them on file. So even if I had "line sync", I wouldn't be able to do anything anyways.


Not impressed.


To be continued tomorrow...