NET [Never Ending Tragedy]

Rs 50 per hour. This is how much we pay for net in Pilani.

Guyz, do not get nonplussed....I’m creating this post in 2006.

I don’t complain. This is a pithecanthropus community. Primary requirement here is development.

BITS came up with a new project,’ The BITS connect'. It all happened in my second semester. BITS had to pay lacs as yearly rental for the cables laid from Delhi to Pilani.

We all waited for our comps to get CONNECTED. It was like a dream.

The very thought of data packets coming out of the (dummy) white boxes fixed to the walls in our rooms made us shiver. “We are all going to have net for 24 hrs”, this was a phrase repeatedly uttered by all the 12 sapheads of every wing. Finally the day came when we were to get registered for the net in rooms. I was one among the first who got registered. It was 5 in the evening when we finally had net in our rooms. I first logged into my yahoo messenger to boast about our net to my friends. The net was decently fast. The first week saw a series of attacks to spare no comp. VIRUSES- of all kinds a sizes.

It left no comp virgin. We managed to find some antidotes in the net itself. Our comps reverted back to their healthy state. We made cent percent use of the net.

Everything went well till fourth semester, until one day the net was gone. We didn’t have net for more than a week. We were told that the net got jammed b’coz of the over traffic.

“Then started TROUBLE”. Though there was net, it never exceeded 1kbps. We decide to report to the in charge. We saw him squirm. It was probably b’coz of the repeated complaints. He said he needed some new cache engines to increase the speed. I do not know how many engines have been dumped in the server but the screwed up net got worse. The same situation prevails. It’s impossible to prognosticate when the net would get bollixed. I often feel like burning my LAN chord. Some times the whole comp gets loused up along with the net from which extrication becomes difficult. The net we have now is just ‘naamkevasthe’. Hoping for this net to meliorate……….