We've been dealing with Uganda Telecom for a few days now. They're not much better than dealing with Verizon in the US. ts nice to know that wherever one goes in the world, the local Telephone company will be unresponsive.
In short, we bought a 128K ISDN line from them. I was surprised to see ISDN as its pretty much disappeared in the US, supplanted by DSL, cable, or fiber-to-the-home. I had to redo the entire setup with the router - ISDN requires a computer be connected to the phone jack rather than a router. So now the router sits behind the gateway computer. Getting the gateway computer to share via the router was difficult. Luckily WindowsXP does have a decent network wizard and we got it running. But its slow. We haven't gotten the full128K yet, just one 64K channel. Downloading anything is a long, tedious process.
We had a big electrical storm a 5 days ago and some parts of Busia are still without power. Our hotel is hit or miss with water (mostly miss). They offer to give us a jerry can of water and a basin to wash with, but its not the same as a shower. I really miss a hot shower!
Two more days until we open the internet cafe. We're training the manager today.
Thanks so much for all the emails & blog posts. Its awesome to know we have many people praying for this endeavor.
-Scott
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