Do you remember me writing that I could now access the Internet? That I would would blog religiously every week? Come rain, hail or shine? Yeah? Well I have to apologise for missing out last week because when I was writing the rain, hail or shine thingy I forgot all about the wind.
You see, at the mo the signal I am getting is coming from the little town just north of me and is picked up via the Smart Antenna here in the house and sent to my nice new computer and all this allows me to get online. Admittedly, rainy weather can slow it up a bit but it still gets to me and for that I am very grateful. Ditto hail. But I totally forgot about the wind! A strong continuous wind, and it can blow like all get-out here, means the signal suffers and connecting to the Internet is well nigh impossible. This happened last weekend and the only thing I did manage was a short connection during a brief drop of the wind which allowed me just enough time to email my column to my editor…and then back came the wind, fiercer than ever, which shut me down before I could get here to my blog page. Frustrating! Actually, I was hissing several F words but “frustrating” will do for here, this being a public page and all.
Thing is, lovely as my location is, there are those times when the wind blows like a gale and I can’t guarantee that it will back off on Sundays so I can write this, hence my apologies in advance if a week comes and goes with no post. Of course, once all the NBN towers are up and switched on the wind can blow until Hell freezes over because apparently it won’t affect my signal. Right. I hope no one is fibbing here. I also hope the process would hurry the hell up so I can not have to worry about windy weather playing havoc with my online work!
Meanwhile, I am trying to be patient and am still very thankful for being able to access the Internet pretty much most of the time. But I so want that super fast NBN connection. Surely it must be close by now…
Can someone please tell me that it is…?