Disconnected!

For fuck's sake!  Right in the middle of trying to watch something via my Roku box, I suddenly lost my internet connection!  Checking my router, there was clearly no broadband connection. Which meant, of course, that I couldn't use the broadband I pay for (and have just been billed another month for) to check the status of my ISP and find out what the fuck was going on.  I had to check via my phone, thereby using up part of my more expensive data allocation for the month, to find out that this is a planned outage by BT for 'maintenance and is scheduled to last SIX hours!  Again, for fuck's sake!  SIX hours!  At a time when people are likely to be using their broadband!  Moreover, why was there no warning of this?  No announcement to customers?  Jesus H Christ!  Typical bloody capitalism: happy to take your money but reluctant to provide any kind of service!  Luckily, the broadcasting authorities haven't yet gone through with their insane plans to switch off Freeview and force us all to watch free to air TV over our broadband connections, because it means that I least still have terrestrial TV to watch.  

If they really want to go ahead with these crazy plans, however, then they really need to get guarantees that this sort of thing simply doesn't happen, otherwise there will be a lot of irate viewers complaining that they couldn't watch TV or that stuff they had set to record hadn't recorded.  Or maybe there will be a recommendation that we will all need to have two broadband connections with two different infrastructure carriers, as backup.  Right now, just to be able to post this, I'm having to use up more of my expensive mobile data - but I decided that my posting schedules have been disrupted enough over the past few years by outages, power cuts and the like, so to Hell with the expense!  The irony here is that this latest outage is again down to BT, who provide the local infrastructure.  I went to great lengths when I switched to fibre to cut them out the equation altogether because of the problems they have caused me.  Yet here we are, with the bastards still blighting my life!  And they were the ones who told me that I had to switch to fibre and that doing so would eliminate all those outages I was suffering over the old copper wires!  As with everything else BT say, it was clearly a load of old bollocks.