So during the weekend I connected up my ADSL router and noticed that my router was showing sync at 2MB/256K with pretty healthy looking noise margins so all looking good, unfortunately UTV support were closed Saturday & Sunday so I couldn’t call them for my username & password.
I gave them a quick ring today and they said they hadn’t received notification from Eircom yet that the service was active yet however they put me on hold then came back and advised it was and gave me my username & password and also e-mailed me the details, so far so good…I’ll test it out this evening.
Finally I’ve reached $100 on my Google Adsense account and I will now get my first payment! I signed up for Google Adsense back in October 2007 and placed a number of adverts on a number of sites I host from the 1st November 2007, since then I’ve slowly watched the cents role in.
I’ve found the advert banners on the top of pages to be the most successful and the search box which you can see on this site hasn’t earned me 1c all this time 
None the less its money I wouldn’t have made otherwise and it helps pay for my hosting package for all my sites which is good, it only took 116,492 Page impressions and 802 clicks. I guess I could improve on those click percentages by better advert placement any suggestions welcome.
Lets hope the next $100 doesn’t take as long 
So got an e-mail from Eircom today saying my account has been created and in the e-mail I got my new telephone number and eircom a/c number, I called somebody in my house and got them to connect a phone and sure enough it rings out!
So quick check on Eircom website shows line test passing for Broadband so another quick visit to UTV website confirms this also so I’ve placed my order for UTV Broadband 2MB Bundled, got confirmation e-mail from UTV just now and its due live in 10 working days!
Fingers crossed!
So here we are again back to the start of what historically has been extremely painful, those that know me know that I’ve recently bought myself a house and that I’ve moved out of my apartment.
Well as part of the usual moving of stuff I now have to get myself a new broadband provider as I can’t get NTL in the town I’m now going to be living in and its pretty limited provider wise in the area its basically an unknown wireless provider or a ADSL provider who operates one of Eircom Wholesales resold bit-stream products.
After much reviewing of websites I have decided to go with UTV’s bundled 2MB package which includes a “unlimited” option for 5e extra a month so I won’t be restricted by set caps that other providers like Eircom, BT or Perlico offer and overall it works out decent enough value at a total cost of 55e per month for phone & Broadband.
So as part of this move I’ve once again had to get myself an Eircom phone line, those that know me will know I’ve gone through this saga THREE times before and they I really hate Eircon..sorry Eircom at this stage.
The first time Eircom kept sending the bills to somebody else’s address so it took me 3-4 months to get my a/c number as Eircom flat out refused to give it to me over the phone, fax it to me or e-mail it to me and I needed it to change to BT Business, the second time it took a month to get the a/c number and the third time also took weeks to get the a/c number so in the end I canceled the lot and went with NTL’s 3MB package.
So here I am, I’ve just placed an on-line order for a telephone line and based on the details on the site the install “should” be free.
If your home has never had an eircom phoneline but all line work is in place, the connection will be FREE (normally €49.99** inc VAT).
While my house has never had a phoneline as its just been built it does have all the wiring and I can even get an engaged tone off a phone when its plugged in, the nearest install date Eircom would give me is 2nd July so we’ll see how things go and I’ll keep you all posted.
Fingers crossed…..
So today I got myself a Nokia 5310, a few months ago I sold off my iPod Shuffle with the idea of buying a iPhone but plans changed and was then left without a MP3 player.
For years I’ve been using my trusty Nokia 6680 which has worked perfectly with iSync on my MacBook and its been a great phone but the mp3 player sucks and its pretty big so I’ve been looking to replace it this past week.
I finally decided to get myself a Nokia 5310 as it had a nice standard 3.5mm headphone jack with saves me messing about with adapters so I picked it up today brought it home only to discover it doesn’t work with iSync…yes I’m well aware I should have checked!
Anyway a quick 1min search in google brings me this, basically somebody made a nice installation file for a plugin for the Nokia 5310, all works perfectly!!
Well after about an hour of searching and driving up and down country roads and asking the odd local I gave up and visited some local sites, after I got home I did another search on google and discovered that the map on the Discover Ireland website was over 20km off the mark!
So now I’ve a proper map with the correct location and now I just need the time to go out on another trip
The above shot is one of the photos I took up around Killamery’s High Cross which is about 5-6knm outside of Callan, Co Kilkenny.
