I have just spent two fantastic days with my beautiful girlfriend. She came down on Monday night at 9:45PM and went home today. I had to go to lectures yesterday so she was in on her own for a while but this gave her time to do some studying. After the lectures we went into the city centre so I could purchase a wireless router so that I could share the connection with everyone else at Chez Student. We then went for a meal at Pizza Hut, after which we went to check out the new St Stephen's shopping centre. It kind of reminds me of the Triangle in Manchester, albeit much smaller. Hull now has three shopping centres in the centre of town; Princes Quay, Prospect Centre and St Stephen's Centre. Also new to Hull is Paragon Interchange. This is basically an extension to Hull Railway Station so that all busses terminate there now. I like it because it brings busses and trains together. A few months ago if you had wanted to be near the railway station and you were on Cottingham Road, you would have had to catch the Number 15 bus which would drop you off outside Argos, which you would then have to navigate your way across the road and walk around the Victoria Hotel to the train station. Now if you are on Cott. Road and need to be at the train station, you can catch pretty much any bus that is heading towards the city centre and it will wind up at Paragon Interchange. I like that a lot. The East Riding of Yorkshire know that people still do use public transport.
Today I had to wait in for my broadband, and what a day it was. It started off with a few power outages that, after a lot of troubleshooting, were found to be caused by the cooker in the room designed for disabled inhabitants. Next came the engineers who were going to 'install the ADSL socket'. Trouble is – I had already rigged up the router and had a broadband modem to hand if anything went wrong. All I needed was for Kingston Communications to switch on ADSL on my phone line. After a few phone calls, they did so, and the modem, which was connected to the computer, sprang into life. I connected to the Internet through the modem to find that it worked well. When I connected the router, however the DSL light was on but the Internet light refused to flash. I was on the verge of taking the router back to Currys Digital where I had bought it. I decided instead to just go there and find out what was wrong once I had dropped my girlfriend off at the train station. Once at Currys they gave me some 08 number to ring, which I did once I was home. They gave me the number for Tech Guys, who could help me. However, instead of ringing them, I decided to restore the router to factory settings. I followed the wizard and found that I had incorrectly entered the username the first time round. I entered in the correct one, set up the rest of the router and I am now online through my router, although my laptop won't connect to it at the moment but I will troubleshoot that later, I think.
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