When we had the moving date to move house I contacted BT straight away to inform them of the moving date and to arrange that the phone line and broadband would be set up. Unfortunately I was told that it we would need an engineer appointment to get it both the phone and broadband working as the existing phone line was not adequate and the earliest available appointment for an engineer to come to our new home to get everything set up would be a month after we had moved.
Whilst I do not spend every waking hour online and could easily manage without the internet I was a little disappointed that it would take so long until we had a house phone and broadband especially as we rely on the internet to stay connected with Lee’s family over 200 miles away and my extended family in America. Also even though we both have mobile phones I also use the house phone to keep in touch with Lee’s family and having moved a good distance from my family keeping in touch with them via telephone is now more important than ever. Plus the fact that Christmas was fast approaching meant that I wanted to get online to buy Tristan’s gifts and the thought of leaving it till the last minute once the broadband was set up was daunting.
Thankfully I was able to get connected to the internet every once in a while via BT Wi-Fi Hotspots but the connections were very limited and temperamental with only a couple of locations within our new home that I could pick up a Wi-Fi Hotspot and once I had managed to get connected it was a fine balancing act to keep connected as moving the laptop a fraction one way or the other saw me instantly lose the connection.
