Back in 2003 when I just arrived here in Crete, at a time where 64Kbps ISDN was called “broadband”, I couldn’t really afford to spend too much time hanging out on the internet. I just made short connections to download my e-mail and my newsgroup subscription (anybody remember newsgroups?) and uploaded my pre-written postings...
Read more →Ever since I used OTE a my service provider I have had an additional e-mail account with them, which somehow ended up as my main e-mail account@otenet.gr. This e-mail account is different from my main account which I use to log in to their network. Usually the e-mail account and the login account are...
Read more →Last night, at 22:40 my ADSL line came back to life, after having shut down around 17:00. OTE finally switched me back to 4Mbps. I guess kyría Ioanna came through for me after all. The bumpy 24Mbps ride seems to be over. Thanks for your sympathies, everybody. Blog conversion progress I’ve added Tom’s biography...
Read more →Day 12. Get this: it is Sunday, moreover it is a special Sunday, Epiphany, which is celebrated all over Greece, the highlight being the diving for the cross, where young (and not so young) men dive into the ice cold water to retrieve a cross that the priest has thrown in. This typically happens...
Read more →Day 11 As I reported already the ADSL line was up at 07:40 this morning. Without a single interruption it stayed up until 12:13. Could it be possible that I had finally entered 24Mbps nirvana? You know the answer already of course. No, I hadn’t. At 12:13 the line went down for the first...
Read more →Well, my christmas present from OTE turns out to be a lemon. Let’s re-cap: on December 19th I ordered the upgrade to 24Mbps. The lady at the other side assured me that I qualified technically. By that I understood that the infrastructure of OTE was capable of actually delivering 24Mbps to my house. On...
Read more →Just in time for the christmas season, OTE, the incumbent telecom operator, which happens to be the supplier of my ADSL connection, has announced drastic price cuts to their services. I ordered my upgrade yesterday and as a result I will soon have a 24Mbps/1Mbps ADSL2+ connection for €29.90/month, VAT, ISP, all inclusive, no...
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