Unlike a few weeks ago, I can’t say: “If its Tuesday, I must be in Belgium!” Instead I’m here at home waiting for the next step in the ADSL installaton process. If I’m lucky, the Bell Atlantic installer will show up early today and get the service up and running.

Well its 10:30 AM and no installer yet. So much for early AM appointments! Oops, I spoke too soon; someone is knocking at the door! Three trucks out front, three installers at the front door (as it turned out, two were trainees). The ADSL finally came up at around 1:30 PM. Since I already have an ISDN line and had an IP address assigned to it, Bell Atlantic had to give me another IP address for the ADSL (caused lots of telephone calls back and forth to the support center before this all got figured out!). However, all ended well as the ASDL is now working and, as advertised, it is really fast. And best of all, its”instant on” to the Internet — No more dialing numbers and waiting for the connection to get established.