Now that the damage has been done, my wallet tapped, my future signed away, I can complain a wee bit about wireless store employees. They don’t really seem to know much. Oh they can pull up YouTube on an iPhone, or show you how to take a picture with the crappy little camera on whatever model you happen to be purchasing, but in general, they don’t seem to be able to deal with, oh I don’t know, say a Mac. 🙂
Last night when I purchased my little 881 (okay, not really “little”)…
…we couldn’t get it to connect while I was at the store. The “computer guy” wasn’t there so my salesperson was a bit helpless. First he tried to install software from an .exe file to my Mac. Nice try but I wasn’t using my XP partition at the time (which reminds me, need to try that). I finally asked if I could do it and he seemed bit reluctant but you could tell he was getting frustrated. He finally told me to go download the software myself at home. He said it nicely, but you could tell he was glad to get rid of me.
Here’s the thing…when I got home I realized what had happened. Whenever I have gotten a phone I’ve had to activate it by going through a bunch of menus over the phone. You’ve been there – press 1 to sign away your rights, press 2 to give us your future earnings, etc., etc. I realized we’d never done this at the store. Since my wireless “card” isn’t a phone (though it sort of is), he’d forgotten that part.
I did it from home and 20 minutes later I’m up. I’m tempted to go back and rub it in, but that’d just be a waste of my time and impolite to boot.
In any case I’m up, happy and poorer.
I should also mention that using the Rioplex Broadband Test I came up with these numbers this morning.
Your current bandwidth reading is:
1.39 Mbps
which means you can download at 177.99 KB/sec. from our servers.
Aloha!