Today I purchased 2 years worth of web-hosting from bluehost.com. As great as my free account with wordpress.com was, I wanted a little more control over things. Bluehost allowed me to install wordpress very quickly and easily, but I’ve noticed some of the cool features I had on my free account are now gone. Most likely they can be found as plugins that just haven’t been installed yet. Bluehost will also come in handy if I ever get a little more serious about web design (which I’d like to do), since I can use PHP, Perl, and all kinds of databases (including MySQL and Postgres). Bluehost has also given me a domain name, gowashyourhair.com, for free! Actually, after registering my domain, I realized I had named it ‘gowashyourhait.com’ – but a fairly quick call to their IT department straightened that out for me.
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nexicom 2
Well, I brought over my computer, modem, and router and presto! – we have the Internet in our home. So, I would like to take this opportunity to take back some of my Nexicom frustrations, and admit that perhaps I don’t have an understanding of how ISP’s work. I’m now assuming they only have to verify your home number before they’ll allow you to connect (PPPoE) and it has nothing to do with your home address. When Bell came to hook up my phone service he mentioned that he was hooking up our high-speed as well… which confused me a little bit since our ISP was Nexicom. He seemed confused as well and said that he had received orders to set up ‘dslab,’ to which I mentioned that we do pay a network fee of $4 a month for a ‘network charge.’ So, even though or Internet is delivered by one company, we are still required to pay Bell for the ability to use it. If anyone out there understands this better than I do, please fill me in. At any rate, we have the Internet and I am no longer edgy.
nexicom
We’re about 75% moved in now – there are only small items remaining at the apartment, though this includes my wife’s extensive warddrobe. We do have a phone, but no cable or Internet. I’m not too antsy about the cable, but I am about the Internet – mostly because I haven’t been able to get a hold of anybody to help me. You’d think getting them to move your DSL service from one home to another would be a pretty common thing. But, I’ve had great difficulty (1) getting people to answer the 1-800 number, (2) getting patched through to the right division, and (3) getting anyone to call me back. I’ve been doing my best to remain positive and recognizing how counterproductive judging can be (some wisdom from Wayne Dyer), but I’ve decided to name the ISP in question – it’s nexicom! This isn’t the first time I’ve had difficulty with them either. Hmm… here’s a thought – maybe if I’m keeping the same number, and I have Bell’s DSL capabilities enabled at the new place, they don’t need to do anything for me. If that’s the case I feel quite silly, but they could have at least let me know…
Since we don’t have the Internet at home right now, I’m actually writing this post from work – how horrible huh? Actually, my work affords me a fair bit of down time. Right now I’m watching the Leafs/Senators game with one of the individuals I work with, while the other one listens to music.
