FFS Friday - Slow Internet Edition

So I've spent the past three hours trying to get this post up - ffs

After working brilliantly for the past week, last night when i was being super productive and actually trying to send some work to someone the net slowed down, as in so slow it couldn't even load Facebook or Google - ffs

I figured it would better in the morning, it wasn't - ffs

So my partner called our provider (vivd) at 2 pm because he really needed to submit some homework to Uni and so really needed the net to work. He has to leave for work at 3 pm. He was still on the phone at that time so i had to take over the conversation in the middle of everything - ffs

It took a further 45 minutes to upload seven, 6kb (absolutely tiny files) notepad files and email them off to vivid so they could "analyze and get back to me" - ffs

Internet is currently still ultra slow but is actually letting me load one website at a time, so hopefully it will let me post this ...post? - ffs

At least the lady on the other end of the line was nice and friendly, i imagine it must have been pretty boring for her too - not ffs

Earlier in the week we had to get the car serviced, and it was already 3 months overdue so i was freaking out that i was going to be super expensive, luckily it wasn't - not ffs

Buuuuut, they said the engine might be leaking and if that is the case then at the next service it's going to cost between $500 and $700 to get it completely replaced - ffs

On the way to pick up the car we received an email telling us that the hotel booking we had for June in Melbourne had been cancelled because the booking company we had used had gone into voluntary liquidation - ffs

Also, they would like to move our booking to another random hotel but first they need us to pay them the money we owed for the booking because the booking website had never received it, you know three weeks ago - ffs

So currently we have no hotel booking, no trace of the money which left the account but apparently never arrived at the booking website, and less then 60 days before we have to be in Melbourne - ffs

We are going to Melbourne to attend PAX, a huge gaming convention coming down from America for the first time ever - not FFS

I also spent 10 days waiting for my Illamasqua blush to arrive, from Melbourne, as in, in the same country only one state away. I've had things arrive from England at a faster rate then that - ffs

When it finally arrived, it arrived at my mums house (because i live in a dodgy neighborhood and don't trust them to not go through my mail), first thing mum asked me if she could try it, i said sure, when i got it later that day it had tiny little specks of hair and dirt in it from an uncleaned makeup sponge - ffs

To make myself feel better i went to Priceline to pick up a new lipstick, i wanted something really different from my usual pinks and mauve so i went for the darkest shade i could find, Rimmel's Kate Moss lippy in 04 and awesome dark plum color - not ffs

But when i opened it at home someone had twisted the lipstick all the way up at the store and the top of it was all mushed up - ffs

So that's been my FFS this week, Let's hope this post goes up on Friday, if not then - FFS!

FFS Friday - I hate dealing with Phone/Internet companies

Every Friday i head over to Beautifully Glossy  so read her list of weekly crap/complaints and it's actually...quite relaxing. Makes me feel somewhat better about the crap that goes on in my life, so i thought i would let you guys into my complain fest and hope it makes you feel a bit better. So let's get into it;


So as you might know i recently moved house, when i moved in there was a single missing blind in the bedroom. I sleep on the left side of the bed and I'm attacked by a sunbeam of fire every morning. FFS

I've been trying to get a new set of curtains installed but the walls are not brick so i need a new set of stuff to install the curtain rods, because of course there are only curtains in the living area. FFS

When we moved in, the sink in the bathroom was leaking. Although it's since been fixed the bottom cupboard still smells like mildew. Gross. FFS

In the new place we also can't get cable Internet because of many weird and seemingly pointless reasons so we had to get wireless. FFS

As gamers, this is not optimal. FFS

So we looked around and eventually went with Vivid Wireless since they seemed the cheapest and best for our needs. So we wanted to buy the Home Gateway for $129 as it sends out a wireless signal and connect by cable to a big PC. It was out of stock. FFS

According to the sales person, it had been out of stock at the Good Guys and Dick Smith Electronics and on their own website for months. No idea when it might come back into stock. FFS

But we needed Internet so we were recommended to get the smalled single Internet USB dongle ($49) and a 3G/4G compatible router. Our old router of course was not 3G/4G compatible. FFS

There was none in stock at Good Guys so we had to go to Telstra and pick up theirs where we were told "It should work with the the Vivid Wireless device" okay, so we bought it ($79) and got it home to find that of course it doesn't work.

They said since we opened it, it means we can't return it. FFS

We went down there and argued about it, called a million numbers, got yelled at by the in store staff (Telstra, Joondalup FYI) fun times. FFS

Eventually we got through to their head office and they gave us a reference number for our complain which we took to the store and said that if they can't return it at this juncture then we would have to go to the Telecommunication ombudsman. They gave us store credit. Sort of FFS

So since only my main computer could get online we still needed a way to get the Internet on our phones, ipad and various gaming devices so we though to do the smart thing this time around and call Vivid to ask for a list of compatible 3G/4G routers. They asked us why we hadn't gotten the Home Gateway instead. FFS

We told them, that we had not gotten it because it was out of stock. Turns out it was in stock, they just had not bothered to update their website. FFS

However they let us return the USB dongle, refunded the Internet we had already paid for and sent out the Gateway which arrived the next day. They also gave us a free month of Internet. Not FFS

As soon as we got wireless Internet back we tried to update the Playstation Online network, which we learned was having issues of it's own and not letting updates through properly. FFS

Have been trying to get it to update since last night, still no luck. FFS

So that's my weeks whinge. this was kind of fun so i will try to do this at least every two weeks or so and i encourage you to do so as well. If you do leave a comment below as i love reading these kinds of posts.