On Fri Jun 10 17:15:55 2011, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
At the risk of piling on, I can't resist the opportunity to try to
one-up Ned's story.
While in the UK this year, I had the misfortune to need to call BT
for support on my broken home Internet connection. In the middle
of the usual mind-numbing "we will force you to walk through every
idiotic step that you already know is irrelevant after thirty years
in the business," the phone support guy told me to "Click on the
pulldown for 'Configure one-pee-vee-six' and set it to Off." Not
only was this totally irrelevant, and not only did he routinely
make me turn off the very protocol we want to enable, but he called
that protocol "one pee v6" instead of "eye pee v6." And when I
was stupid enough to correct him, he wouldn't go any further until
I admitted that he knew best, and that I should call it "one pee
v6" rather than "eye pee v6." Needless to say, I didn't bother
asking about BT's plans to support IPv6 -- oops, I mean 1Pv6.
No need to ask. If BT can't even spell IP, we are a11 d00med. --
Nathaniel
Particularly poor as BT are actually quite clued up on IPv6:
http://www.ipv6.bt.com/
(And I don't work for BT, have never worked for BT, have been in
competition with BT, and I don't use their service)
I would *never* judge an ISP by the clueless nature of their scripted
first-line suppor, at least not beyond their existence. (The ISP I
use does not have clueless script monkeys, but smart and helpful
people who craft their response to fit your ability, not theirs).
Dave.
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