Error e233: THE REMOTE COMPUTER DID NOT RESPOND
Error e344: SERVER CONNECTION WAS RESET
These are some of the excuses we've been getting for the past month. I'm sorry. I truly am. But hear me out first; I haven't been trying to avoid posting here. Our internet access has been nonexistent for the longest now. Something happened to our network! We haven't been able to load Google, let alone Blogger, for weeks. I've finally got through but I don't know how long it'll last. Someone came over today to help us out. He thought that maybe it was our modem that was malfunctioning. Turns out it's our area. :( There's really nothing we can do about that. You'd think we live in some remote forest in the middle of nowhere! If you can believe it, we don't. We live right next to a big community. But for some reason nothing works here. The worst part is that it doesn't make any sense. Here's why: in Nigeria almost every modem is a mobile one. It's plug and play. And there are different networks that make different modems. We use Multilinks. To put it simply, Multilinks is dead. At least here, anyway. So today we tried another called Glo. Now, Glo is also a phone network. We actually have a Glo phone and we get five bars in certain areas in the house. It's pretty reliable. The same SIM that's in our Glo phone is in a Glo modem. Theoretically you should be accessing the same network. Therefore, if the phone works then we should get decent internet access through Glo. It doesn't work that way. I don't know why. We took our Glo phone. We took our Glo modem. Glo phone: five bars. Glo modem: ... I'm at my wits end here. I don't know what we're supposed to do. The only other option we have is this internet thingy on the university campus up the street. It's called VSAT and the minimum download speeds are like 250 kbps or something like that. Around here that's like legendary speeds. All we have to do is get a dish so we can send the internet data stuff to the house. I really hope we get this worked out!
Signing off,
The Traveler
Error e344: SERVER CONNECTION WAS RESET
These are some of the excuses we've been getting for the past month. I'm sorry. I truly am. But hear me out first; I haven't been trying to avoid posting here. Our internet access has been nonexistent for the longest now. Something happened to our network! We haven't been able to load Google, let alone Blogger, for weeks. I've finally got through but I don't know how long it'll last. Someone came over today to help us out. He thought that maybe it was our modem that was malfunctioning. Turns out it's our area. :( There's really nothing we can do about that. You'd think we live in some remote forest in the middle of nowhere! If you can believe it, we don't. We live right next to a big community. But for some reason nothing works here. The worst part is that it doesn't make any sense. Here's why: in Nigeria almost every modem is a mobile one. It's plug and play. And there are different networks that make different modems. We use Multilinks. To put it simply, Multilinks is dead. At least here, anyway. So today we tried another called Glo. Now, Glo is also a phone network. We actually have a Glo phone and we get five bars in certain areas in the house. It's pretty reliable. The same SIM that's in our Glo phone is in a Glo modem. Theoretically you should be accessing the same network. Therefore, if the phone works then we should get decent internet access through Glo. It doesn't work that way. I don't know why. We took our Glo phone. We took our Glo modem. Glo phone: five bars. Glo modem: ... I'm at my wits end here. I don't know what we're supposed to do. The only other option we have is this internet thingy on the university campus up the street. It's called VSAT and the minimum download speeds are like 250 kbps or something like that. Around here that's like legendary speeds. All we have to do is get a dish so we can send the internet data stuff to the house. I really hope we get this worked out!
Signing off,
The Traveler
