<RANT>
I hate the German Telekom! Arrogant fucking incompetent bastards!
To be exact: I hate some of ther managers, which decides dumb things!
But let me tell the story from the beginning ...
What we have:
- A friend of mine, let's call her Bärbel
- me, as the guy who knows one or two things about Internet, DSL, IP, administration etc.
- a place at the edge of known civilization where Bärbel is living
- German Telekom
- German Telekom hotline
- the guy at the hotline, let's call him Mr. Hardison
Bärbel needs internet access and asked me, if I could help her with this stuff, because she's not very experienced in this kind of technical things. Okay, why not, sounds like an easy job.
I checked, what the available options are at her place. No DSL available via copper wire. Fibre will be available in two or three years, so the only option left was this LTE "Magenta für zu Hause" (magenta at home) from the German Telekom.
Ok, fine. Did a list of the hardware needed:
- AVM Fritz!Box 6890 for the LTE connection
- 2x media converters copper - fibre
- 1x AVM Fritz! Repeater 3000
- 1x Fritz!Fon C5
- 50m fibre cable with plugs
I need to place the 6890 directly under the roof of the house, because otherwise there will be no radio reception because of the dead zone because of the geography where she is living (end of a valley with some high hills nearby). Edge of civilization.
The plan is to connect the repeater in her appartment via the fibre cable with the 6890.
This week all gear arrived and I set it up in my lab for configuring and testing.
All worked well except for one thing: this bloody phone is refusing to connect.
So I called the hotline of the German Telekom and after listening to this Warteschleifengedudel for about 45min, Mr Hardison picked up my call. I explained him the situation and he did some checkings . After some discussions with him (and him with his boss), he concluded to this:
I need to connect the 6890 to the telephone line connection box. VoIP via LTE is not possible.
[...]
WHAT?!?
I asked him, if he is really serious about this.
He confirmed.
Twice.
With his boss.
The German Telekom is NOT able to do VoIP traffic via an LTE connection.
To be clear: Mr. Hardison did a very good job and he couldn't understand either, why this shouldn't be possible.
May those bloody bastards of incompetent, dumb and arrogant managers from the German Telekom burn in hell for this stupid decision!
Together with a 24/7 acoustic irradiation of their Warteschleifengedudel from evil madness!
Now I have to explain this to Bärbel, that we need another wire because of the incompetence of the Telekom.
Really! I hate the German Telekom. Parts of them.
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Now I'm feeling a little bit better.
Thanks for listening.
Warteschleifengedudel = hold/elevator music in a waiting loop