Sing me Spanish telco
Three months into my "new" apartment and I'm still awaiting the installation of DSL. Doesn't Jazztel want my money? I've been trying to give it to them since December, eager fistfuls of fresh Euros ripe for the picking. Sadly, humor rarely translates across the language barrier, so all my "Take my money, please!" jokes have fallen flat when speaking to customer service reps.
The good news is that I can occasionally connect from the ample terrace out back; the bad news is that spring is slow coming, and my fingers are very cold. Plus I'm getting paranoid about just whose un-password-protected wi-fi I'm filching. I just spied a guy in the building opposite, watching me through his window as he talked on a wireless phone. For a second I thought he might be calling in an airstrike (there were police choppers hovering overhead just this weekend, I swear).
I gotta stop watching 24.
(Predictably, I lost my connection somewhere midway through writing this useless post. Last night, I spent about an hour and a half resetting my Airport, trying to mail in my "Critical Beats" column for the month. The cat sitting on my lap helped keep me from freezing, but it damn near chewed through my headphone cable in the process. Kids, nothing in life is free.)
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Bad news, Jazztel is a "pain in the ass telecom company".
I've been reading a couple of your interviews on the net and I've seen that you lives in Barcelona now. I'm in Zaragoza, 3 hours by car, and I would like to invite you to seee the line up of the Electronic Festival of the city at www.d4dr.ws. I think it's quite interesting. We are running a monthly night called IHHSSS..! in a club called RESET. From September had played the following artists: PLEASUREHORSE,OVE-NAXX, DODDODO, DJ SCOTCH EGG, DJ/RUPTURE, MILANESE, ROB HALL, MR76ix, DR DEREK F, VEX’D, AZ-ROTATOR, BONG-RA, SHITMAT this GULPEPSH, DISTEST,MARUOSA and repeat OVE-NAXX, DODDODO and SCOTCH EGG. In March will play BUDDY PEACE and ZILLA....
Best Cheers!
Posted by: Ruben Cardenas | April 3, 2006 02:29 PM
Bad news, Jazztel is a "pain in the ass telecom company".
I've been reading a couple of your interviews on the net and I've seen that you lives in Barcelona now. I'm in Zaragoza, 3 hours by car, and I would like to invite you to seee the line up of the Electronic Festival of the city at www.d4dr.ws. I think it's quite interesting. We are running a monthly night called IHHSSS..! in a club called RESET. From September had played the following artists: PLEASUREHORSE,OVE-NAXX, DODDODO, DJ SCOTCH EGG, DJ/RUPTURE, MILANESE, ROB HALL, MR76ix, DR DEREK F, VEX’D, AZ-ROTATOR, BONG-RA, SHITMAT this GULPEPSH, DISTEST,MARUOSA and repeat OVE-NAXX, DODDODO and SCOTCH EGG,BUDDY PEACE and ZILLA....
Best Cheers!
Posted by: Ruben Cardenas | April 3, 2006 02:32 PM
weird, a friend just moved to seville and is having the same problem as you (no dsl), leading to the same solution (janking another network from rooftops), leading to the same problem (cold fingers).
Posted by: micah | April 3, 2006 03:07 PM
mwahhahahahahahahahaa telecom companies suck. Unlike your blog. I really enjoy your insight, wordsmithmanship etc. (isworsdsmithmanship a word? if not is should be!)
Posted by: Anonymous | April 4, 2006 12:16 AM
welcome to tech.useless.telcompany.country
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Posted by: applejux | April 4, 2006 01:32 AM
olvidate de Jazztel ... will take ages. No tienes mas remedio que empezar con f***ng Telefonica. You'll have adls within 2-3 days ...
Then you may change to a cheap one.
Posted by: nocure | April 4, 2006 08:38 AM
moved to la from madrid last saturday. got a broadand cable modem installed on monday. $40. it will cost $0 to move it to our new apt. in 20 days. philip, it's possible not even catalunya is ready for primetime. good luck!
Posted by: jose | April 6, 2006 04:56 AM
Sounds like you need to make a Pringles can wifi antenna and point it at your neighbors windows until you find the one with the best connection. See this page to build one yourself: www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
Remember, with many problems in life,piracy is often the answer.
Captain Matt
Posted by: Captain Matt | April 6, 2006 05:50 PM
nice flog...I was in some of that shows in 2004 chilean news year: Maitencillo, Micro Mutek, working with the sound team. The best sounds ever!
Posted by: F | April 6, 2006 07:52 PM
There are many ways to instal internet in your apartment nowadays. You can pall with your neighborous and get of of the variety of wireless connections.
Posted by: Mia, Spanish translator | June 25, 2006 03:05 PM