Nothing works properly

[simont]

The washing machine in my (rented) flat is becoming unusable. I've been suspecting for ages that it isn't rinsing entirely properly, but last night I had to run two and a bit washes on the same load to get it to do anything even remotely resembling a rinse. I fear a call to the landlord is in order, and that probably means I'll have to be at home at some point to take delivery of a new washing machine.

My broadband connection has been out since some time on Monday evening. I suspect that this is related to NTL's recent letter saying they were going to upgrade my bandwidth by over a factor of two and I didn't have to do anything, although the unbelievably slow phone drone I spoke to this morning outright refused to answer a complicated question like ‘have you upgraded me yet’, preferring instead to take over half an hour to schedule an engineer appointment. Which won't be until Saturday; until then I'm reduced to carrying a floppy disk between work and home containing any data I want to have available on my home machine.

Annoyingly, I had an NTL engineer come round last week, and I did ask him – while he was around anyway – whether my rather old cable modem would be able to cope with the upgraded service. He phoned a friend and said yes. I fear he is not going to be a millionaire.

Comments

[rmc28]

Can you not just run the rinse part of the cycle?

We recently got a new(er) washing machine which is far more water efficient. What this means is that you really do have to be careful not to put too much powder in, because it doesn't get dissolved properly. Then you have to run a second rinse cycle, probably using all the water saved by the super-efficient normal cycle.

I'm getting Ecover liquid when the current powder runs out, on the principle it should dissolve even easier than powder.

[pm215]

unbelievably slow phone drone

It's this kind of nonsense that leaves me confused as to why anybody on a reasonable salary continues to use NTL rather than going for ADSL and an ISP who have a clue and will talk to the idiots at BT for you...