A very helpful technician from Bell showed up today to fix our wireline (finally, it only took them three months to figure out it needed to be done). Since we moved in January to our awesome and lovely century home, the internet has been a continuous problem (you can only imagine my horror), either not working at all, or working very slowly or only half working (in spite of the fact that we're in a 6 zone or something). He replaced a bunch of sub-standard wire not fit for internet. He also removed the thing you see above, "the original phone box" which routed the line from the street throughout the house. The very nice tech thinks it was probably installed around the time of the war. And I don't mean the Iraq war, part one or part two.
The fact that the internet worked at all routing through that old technology makes me kind of impressed. We have a brand new, modern phone box encased in grey plastic. It works a lot better, which makes me happy and all, but it's certainly not as pretty or interesting to look at as the original ceramic piece. Another antique for our collection.
The fact that the internet worked at all routing through that old technology makes me kind of impressed. We have a brand new, modern phone box encased in grey plastic. It works a lot better, which makes me happy and all, but it's certainly not as pretty or interesting to look at as the original ceramic piece. Another antique for our collection.
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