Free at Last!
November 4, 2008
Posted by Dan Edelen in : Announcements, Blogging, Technical Functions : Trackback,
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So I’m at my church’s men’s retreat recently when I talk to a man whose first name I know, but the rest of his story eludes me. Since I’m one of those guys who feels awkward when I don’t know a person I truly should, I started a conversation.
Turns out, he works for Verizon.
Verizon handles my landline, so of course, I have to ask THE QUESTION: Why no DSL for li’l old me? I mean, it’s the 21st century, right?
He says, “You can get DSL.”
Yeah, right. I’m on every service notification for cable and DSL in the U.S., and Verizon ain’t called me lately.
“No, really,” he says with that kind of John Wayne look that says, If I gotta crawl through razor blades with a rubbing alcohol chaser, I’ll get you that DSL, son.
So he says that my area had its switches upgraded last year. So why no DSL?
“They didn’t update the database.”
A couple days later, I’m updated. The modem arrived on Friday.
But, of course, my old satellite system wouldn’t go easily. Its software conflicted with the DSL modem and made it seem like the modem was no good out of the box.
Well, I was on to its tricks. It put up a fight, but I was tougher.
And now I’ve got 1.5 Mbps speed.
Goodbye, satellite. No more downtime when it rains and snows. No more blown up modems every few months. No more reductions in speed across the board, even for the longest users. No more latency lags. I can actually watch a video on the Web without it sputtering along.
Hey, it may not be much to you, but for a guy who feeds his family via a home business, I feel the same way Pinocchio did when he became a real boy.
Yeah, maybe I’m just losing it…
Huzzah! PTL!
Tags: DSL, Freedom, Internet, Satellite, Technology, Web
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Well, you still may be losing it, but it’s good that you have more dependable internet service now.
Confragulations!
Yeah, after all the waiting, it’s great.
YAY! OH do I know this… LOL.
You don’t realize how much you depend on your net until you *gasp* have to deal with *choke* dialup…
…I was actually amazed dialup still existed. I forgot what a handshake sounded like…
I still have a few friends who hold onto dialup, mainly because they do not want to pay more for broadband. I try to tell them. Once you have broadband, you’ll never want to go back.
Good for you!
We just had this exact same experience †“ discovering we *could* get DSL after all, cancelling our satellite and I don’t think you can truly appreciate DSL unless you’ve been on satellite first. At it’s slowest, it’s 100 times faster!