Fiery Fred

Its been a while since I’ve posted and quite a bit has happened. We (the family that is) have moved to a new house about 500 yards away from the old one. Why move such a short distance? Well our previous landlord wasn’t doing much to keep the place up and it was costing a fortune to heat. So we’ve moved into a newer place (about 10 years old) which is smaller than the old place but has a fourth bedroom/office and a garage.

Not much ITish in that you might say and you would be right. Except that I work from home and so doing a house move also involves moving the business phone line and broadband. And I have to say it has all gone very smoothly. BT did a fine job of getting things sorted. I stopped using the broadband on Friday in the old house and a BT engineer arrived on Monday morning at the new house to connect the phone line up. After about an hour they had me up and running on a new phone number and on Tuesday morning they swapped the new number back to the number I had at the previous house. And it all worked. Brilliant.

One other thing is that during my converstions with BT they convinced me to sign up for BT Fusion which gives you a mobile phone and a wireless router as part of the broadband package. The thing about the phone is that when it is in range of the router it gives you free calls to 01, 02 and 07 phone numbers using VOIP. I have to say that it seems to work pretty well. The call quality is reasonable and since most of my business calls are to 01, 02 and 07 numbers it should save my employers some money.

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