I'm relieved. Something has finally gone wrong.
The ADSL line will NOT be installed today, probably will NOT be installed
tomorrow, but MAY be installed Thursday. It figures that little things
would go well and the biggest thing would go poorly.
The problem appears to be eerily
similar to Costa Rica
in that even though we are getting our ADSL service from Netgate, a private
firm, the state phone company Antel, is still involved because it comes to us
on their landlines. According to Netgate, Antel hasn't delivered the
modem to them yet.
We planned on a second internet
connection anyway, so today we'll order another one directly from Antel and see
how long that takes. We went with Netgate first because we were told it
had better customer service–perhaps we were misinformed.
In the meantime, we are still on
dialup, but at least we now each have our own line–and another line for voice
calls. That is some progress.
Follow-up on the electrical problem: none.
No word from the electrician or the landlord–no crisis, so we're not pushing
it too much, yet. Apparently the spirit of Mañana is indeed alive away
well here, every though it has had a European face-lift…
