Yoink
From Ross:
I suppose "met by getting in a fight on AOL over ten years ago" counts as "by chance," eh?
In other news, my DSL is pissing me off. For a couple of weeks now the DSL modem starts dropping its signal come about 7:30pm and it will not keep a signal (flashing DSL light, then solid for about 30 seconds, then dropped for 10 seconds, the flashing again, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat). I called Earthlink about it, but they've apparently outsourced their technical support to India and I definitely got a woman with a thick accent who was just following along on the screen and no help whatsoever. Yes, I've unplugged, restarted, the computer, the modem, the airport, blah blah blah. I tried all of that before calling tech support. So then they want me to remove my phone filters and surge protection...If it were faulty filters/a new device interfering/my surge protector causing this, why would it have started up all of a sudden, and why only between the hours of 7pm and 7am, not during the day? No, there's something else going on here...
Am thinking about dropping Earthlink's DSL and switching to a cable modem instead, out of sheer frustration.
I suppose "met by getting in a fight on AOL over ten years ago" counts as "by chance," eh?
In other news, my DSL is pissing me off. For a couple of weeks now the DSL modem starts dropping its signal come about 7:30pm and it will not keep a signal (flashing DSL light, then solid for about 30 seconds, then dropped for 10 seconds, the flashing again, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat). I called Earthlink about it, but they've apparently outsourced their technical support to India and I definitely got a woman with a thick accent who was just following along on the screen and no help whatsoever. Yes, I've unplugged, restarted, the computer, the modem, the airport, blah blah blah. I tried all of that before calling tech support. So then they want me to remove my phone filters and surge protection...If it were faulty filters/a new device interfering/my surge protector causing this, why would it have started up all of a sudden, and why only between the hours of 7pm and 7am, not during the day? No, there's something else going on here...
Am thinking about dropping Earthlink's DSL and switching to a cable modem instead, out of sheer frustration.
My Comcast cable modem service has been very reliable for the past couple years, and it's really freakin' fast most of the time.