It's a bureaucratic tangle (of course). I can't get an internet hook up until I get a local bank account, which I've signed up for, but have not yet recieved. Apparently, you fill out the paperwork, then a few days/weeks later they input the information and send out a letter telling you that you have an account. That takes a week or so to arrive. Then I can call British Telecom with that information. Then four to six weeks later they will send out an engineer to set me up.
I can't use the internet or the library at the school because I'm not officially a student there yet. And won't be until mid January. All the local wifi spots I've tried will let me on, but I can't access any websites. I think it might be because BT runs all the hotspots, and I don't have a BT account. I get this idea from some of the ads I see plastered to the sides of the busses. So, by the time I have access to a wifi hotspot, I won't need access to a wifi hotspot. Bureaucracies. Go fig.
Update: I just checked. It is because I don't have a BT account.
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