3 E160G Modem “Reception”

Bullshit! The only Reception I was getting on my 3 E160G modem was more akin to that at a funeral home for the vigil I was holding over my monitor waiting for my progress bar to.. well.. progress.

Despite getting 2-3 bars it was dog slow and constantly timing out on simple pages.. forget Facebook or Gmail, remember timeouts and 14.4k modem speeds. It’s the future for fucks sake, someone put that in a memo and send it to Three, but don’t send it via e-mail on their mobile network.. otherwise it’ll take 20 fucking minutes.

I must be at the nexus point of shitty reception in the inner north-east of Melbourne as my 3 key gets dismal speeds in a room close to a window and the outside world (apparently it does exist.)

15 minutes in a queue due to a 3 store having 2 people on staff on a busy Saturday afternoon and $30 later I’m feeling the power of the internet again, and by “Power” I mean 56k modem speeds and less timeouts.

I know I could have gotten an aerial super cheap and probably better from China via eBay but its the convenience vs need vs time thing.. that’s how they get ya. Fuckers.

You win this round Hutchison 3..