Thursday, July 21, 2011

WiFi? Fie, MiFi!

So the MiFi of which I blogged earlier works just fine in my former apartment. It also works brilliantly in the Vodafone shop, just to prove that my complaints about dysfunctionality are completely wrong. And this morning I discover that it works in the office.

The only place I can't get a meaningful connection is in my apartment. This renders the device completely pointless, because the apartment is the only place on the surface of the planet where I actually want to use it. There's a good, strong phone signal; it's just the 3G bit that I can't access.

Vodafone's excuse was that "We are upgrading, and there are some occasional periods of outage or low signal." I suspect from the loquacity with which this was spouted that it's a standard tape-recording that gets played to every dissatisfied customer.

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2 comments:

Mme Cyn said...

Typical. At least you can stay late at work now and then and use it there. (Sorry -- lemonade)

Dubai Photo Story said...

If this should make you feel better...

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/qatar/qataris-protest-against-poor-telecom-services-1.840951

 

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