My trip to the local exchange

Despite your expectations, exchange for once in this blog does not refer to the microsoft product but to the buildings used by phone companies. My visit happened since I have a good friend in Telkom’s ADSL division. This has the advantage that my new ADSL line was installed in a record 5 days after ordering (the last 3 was spent waiting for somebody with keys to the right exchange to let us in).
This is probably a record for any South African citizen who isn’t an MP but not Cape Town’s fastest ADSL install ever by a long shot.
That honour belongs to Brangelina who got theirs installed within 1 hour of ordering by this same person. I am now privy to some secrets which allowed this to happen but I won`t reveal those here, instead I will just post a few innocent pix of the inside of a phone exchange and risk getting arrested by the most competent intelligence agent in SA for distributing sensitive information to online espionage agents (you will know he is the most intelligent because he has a webbrowser and doesn’t use it exclusively to visit disnep.com and weirdmonkeysex.net.











PS. Notice the Telkom spelling of “infrastructure” ?

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ADSL Comes to Namibia

I received word from my friend Uwe Thiem that Namibian Telecom has just rolled out it’s first ADSL services, I place his thoughts on it verbatim:


ADSL arrived in Namibia – well, at least in Windhoek and
Swakopmund So I got my shiny new ADSL modem/router yesterday. The boys from
Telecom didn’t know much about it. So I sent them home after they “installed”
the hardware. Took me half an hour to make it work = most of it reading the
excellent manual that comes with it. Now for the really good news: It is
blazingly fast. I ordered the smallest package available (256Kb/s bandwidth,
1GB data per month. Downloaded rather large files from overseas between
40KB/s and 110KB/s. I think Telecom has forgotten to put the bandwidth cap
in. ;-) I might even use IRC or such in future. I might even start blogging
now that I am online permanently.

So this is what it feels like to be a married man

One word friends: AMAZING.
And misses Venter agrees.