Internet been sucky lately at home and at office. My PC has been ‘throwing’ its little temper on me again, it would just suddenly turn into black screen (literally full BLACK) and I cant do anything to make it work, for sure the CPU is still on and working. When I force restart it will still be blank black screen and my CPU would give that little beeping sound. Finally, I had format my PC over the weekend, but it still turns out to be unstable. To make matter worst, Internet been coughing on me too. Spent RM 30 on just a single phone call to enquire how to sort out my internet connection, however they did not manage to solve any of my problem, I end up trouble shooting myself and got myself connect at 3am!!
Although I manage to get online, but the connection is really… really… really.. utterly SLOW! I am supposed to be on 1M broadband, but the technician says I applied for 512k, which is true because many years ago when I applied it, 512k was the highest speed they provide! When the internet provider promotes 1M, they have given all user of an free upgrade, so mine was last confirmed 1M speed. Now, how can it go backwards?? When I am paying the same amount of fee every month with other (just recent) applied user, I get less 50% speed??? Is this how they treat their LOYAL customer of 6 years!???
Am in the office now when horrible internet connection, it has been at least 2 weeks now we had been suffering internet failure at our office. This is not the way to work. I have to sneak into other studios to get internet connection from next door neighbour! Even I got to online, the connection isn’t stable as well.
This frustrates me a lot. Ever since I laid my hands on broadband, anything slower connection can get me going crazy. I still remember the time when I first started working, the office there only had 2 PCs (out of 5) that can connect to internet, however only 1 PC can connect to internet at one time as they were using dial-up. I can still remember the days we had to take turns to go online, check emails, reply client’s enquiries… I hate it the most is when we need to send documents out via email. Attaching one document alone will take at least half a day and another half a day to just send it out!! That’s how frustrating I was at work. Later on I took some time to introduce my ex boss about the wonders of technology and broadband. I managed to convince her to hook up a network in office so it would be easier for us to share files between one another, changed two PCs (which by then was still on wins95 with only 10GB hard disk). That made work much better and way faster! Especially when your client and suppliers are mainly from overseas.
While with all these going on, little that we know that we have other things around us that could also help us in completing our daily task, for instant like fax, dispatch, and snail mail. How many of us prefers emails than fax (leave out the excuses of wanting to save more trees and environment friendly..)? Many of us didn’t thought of using it much. I personally had to admit that I am one of those hardly touches fax unless it is really necessarily. Thinking of the days I had to wait my turn to use the internet and spending whole day to send out a document, I could have just used less than 20mins to print out the letter and fax it across to US!
For urgent matters, I could send my dispatch over to Client’s office to collect materials. Instead of right now, waiting for internet connection and waiting for it to download, when I could just use the time spending to have my client to burn the files to a data CD and send my dispatch to collect them.
I think too much I can talk about the wonders and disadvantages of using internet. I am still waiting to go online so I can ‘chat’ with my boss using goggle chat…..
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