I’m sat here at our PC, in our lounge writing this blog this morning after a nice man from Telefonica turned up yesterday afternoon.
We were sat in the rear yard at 2.30 having lunch when the dogs went mad. On checking our new best friend in the world was stood at our front door and he managed to explain that he would return at 3.30 to install our phone line.
At 4.00 he did return and after getting the phone connected he announced he would also be connecting us to broadband. The only problem being that he would be installing a modem and not the router we had ordered. I wasn’t going to argue. Had he said he was going to be connecting a messenger pigeon I’d have accepted.
He was very good as he didn’t have to do anything to install the software, but appreciating that we’d have some trouble with the Spanish instructions, he told us he would do us a favour and install it for us.
I suspect he later regretted making the offer as the easiest PC to move was Kate’s old laptop, which is a bit slow, and we later discovered, incompatible with the software. That meant he spent over half an hour trying to install software that wouldn’t work because the USB port was too old to speak to the modem.
Fortunately I’d watched very closely over his shoulder as I knew I’d have trouble getting future support if things went wrong, I was eventually able to explain, as Telefonica man made a sharp exit, that I’d try to connect another computer.
He seemed pleased by this or possibly by the fact that he was leaving.
Anyway fortunately I’d seen enough to be able to connect this PC and later today we shall heading into Zafra to look for a wireless router so we can set up a network to connect Kate’s laptop and also move this PC back to the office where I can hardwire the Mac to it and share its internet connection.