I wont go over any tiny little things, just the two main things I have on at the moment.

Number 1: Sky Broadband!

Yes you pesky little company… Well, rather large company really but nevertheless. You will not escape my moaning! I’ve put up with it quite long enough and nothing ever seems to get done about it.

I am currently on the Sky Broadband Connect package, due to the fact that BT are a pain in the ass and there aren’t really any other options in this area as the Telephone Exchange has not yet been unbundled. Which I would also like to point out isn’t until Q3 of 2011… COME ON PEOPLE!!

This means my connection is “Up to 8 Mb”. Which really isn’t too bad considering the are I live in. (Middle of bloody nowhere).

For those of you that are interested, this is the connection status from the Sky Router (Piece of shit that it is);

Not bad considering what the connection is supposed to be. Now just as a rough guide to the current connection speed I used “Speedtest.net”. (UPDATED: 16:36 / 20:06)

Check out that ping. That’s a ping even a 56k connection could be proud of. This has been getting worse and worse over the last couple of weeks, during the day my ping averages around the 50 mark which as you know is acceptable I guess. But 533? What on earth are they trying to do to me! I will also attempt to update this post later on this evening, around 8PM with my connection statistics. You will love it, considering even my Twitter application on my HTC times out on occasion.

As you can see from the updated picture only 2 hours later, the connection has deteriorated quite a lot in such a short space of time. For those of you who are asking, everything was the same when the connection was tested for speed. I will update again later as promised at around 8pm, it’s just that I had noticed that the connection speed had dropped as one of my downloads slowed to a crawl!

Second update at around 8pm as I promised. You can now see that my connection has dropped from 6.88MBs at 2:15PM down to 0.74MB/s at 8.04PM. It’s pathetic. This really isn’t right Sky… Sort it out. I want to hear your comments!

So Sky Broadband… What do you have to say about this? Obviously not a lot considering you haven’t even bothered replying to my email dated: 24 January 2010 14:06:35 which is disgusting customer service. When calling you, you put people in a call centre (centre wordpress, I’m English) that have no clue what so ever about what they are doing. How are they supposed to provide a decent level of Customer Service when they can’t even understand what the customer is telling them! Use a fucking braincell people. Cheap isn’t always the best option for your company.

Number 2: My Leaky Pipe

This was lucky it was spotted this morning else it could have been going on all day. It must have started last night as the clothes that were ready for washing were placed in coloured piles on the floor were dry, and this morning were completely soaking wet. In fact if it wasn’t for the piles of clothes then there would have been water running out from under neath the door no doubt which would have really upset me. A small plastic corner joint had popped and was leaking water in the corner of the kitchen behind the fake wall (to make it look nice) covering some pipe work underneath the work top.

Luckily the floor slopes in such a way that it didn’t soak the kitchen floor completely as that would have been a disaster having to rip the entire laminate flooring up. There is only a small amount which should dry out nicely. The downstairs bathroom however was soaking.
It’s also laminate style vinyl flooring in there thank god, so I was able to pull back the floor revealing a mini paddling pool of sorts on the floor.

This is how it looks after around 2 hours of drying and a lot of towels soaking up the water that was sat there in puddles. Dryer patches are now starting to appear after around 6 hours of drying in total, but the floor is still soaking wet in places. I’m also hoping that I will be able to put the floor covering back down nicely as it had to be sliced out because it was fitted so nicely the first time around.

And this is the hole that had to be made in the kitchen. You can see just to the left hand side of the plug sockets where the wall had to be cut away to get to them. So after replacing the small plastic corner joint, I’m now having to leave my kitchen in a complete mess waiting for that little section there to dry out, so I can replace the cover to those pipes.

Today was the first day I had seen the postman for a couple of days now, and the only thing he brings me… Junk Mail…
Now surely they must have more to give me than that after all that time.

Lets just hope they decide to collect the bin bags on Monday, other wise that it going to be 3 Weeks without a collection for the entire town, not going to be pretty.

My fight still continues with Welsh Water to convince them that they have well and truly messed up my bill, although with the Consumer Council for Water now on my side, things are starting to look up. I’m also waiting for them to get back to me again to confirm that they do have the correct meter number for this property… Morons.

If anyone else out there is having problems with Welsh Water, let me know. I’m more than ready for a full on offensive with these backwards ass, brainless idiots, who couldn’t get pissed at a brewery tasting day.