Well Musa spent the entire day here, I even fed him lunch and tea.
After starting at 9:30am he finally left at 5pm after somehow getting the unit to work. I was not elated that he’d got it to work, I knew something was wrong and I knew I’d be back.
Nevertheless he went home and I played for a while on the internet thinking what a wonderful thing technology is.
Later that night I drove up the motorway for a few miles and pulled into a service station and set the dish away to connect to the internet. Hehehe I heard that whirring sound that I’d become accustomed to over the last 2 days but no way was it going to connect.
I phoned Musa who told me a few things to try and somehow we got it working.
I am seriously not happy with this.
Well what a farce.
I met Musa and Chris from Isatlan and drove down to some unit they had. They spent most of the day fitting the datastorm to the roof whilst I mooched around a rather small and uninteresting town.
When I returned they had a problem. Although I had specifically asked what power requirements the equipment had and been told 12volt, what it really needs is 12volts from a mains charger!
Musa after a while went and found an inverter that was laying around and sold it to me for a tenner. Bloody bad show though not being prepared like that.
Not only that, but they had damaged the roof of the van and put a small dent in the side at the top. I never really got to attend to this as the eqipment wasn’t working anyway. We finally agreed that I would stay the night outside the unit and Musa would come in tomorrow and resolve whatever problem was there.
Disappointing to say the least.
Damn them! Isatlan who are providing the satellite dish and other equipment, have dropped the date back to 16th December now. I’ll have to change the ferry booking grrr!! I’m still annoyed at them for taking nearly £8,000 out of my account without asking. I got it back within 2 days but