Oh the horror!

[hrj]

One forgets. So quickly one forgets the gnawing, ichor-dripping, Lovecraftian horror that is dial-up on the internet. Ah, but hope gleams brightly. After nearly 24 hours of no DSL, no sooner had I dredged up the phone-line splitter, the extra long cord, and the dial-up utility -- no sooner had I suffered through the downloading of a hundred e-mails at near-manuscript speed -- than Earthlink relented and released the DSL from its prison.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Haven't you learned how to steal wifi from your neighbors yet?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

My neighbors all have password-protected networks (as do I). If I'd gotten really desperate, there are always coffee shops. (Although the last time I was in Sweet Adeliine the network wasn't working -- dunno if they've stopped making it available or not.)

On the up side, in the process of getting everything rebooted and reset (including the wireless station), I seem to have solved the problem of my two computers not sharing the network connection amicably. I have a suspicion which setting it was that I did differently this time, but I'm not inclined to experiment.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I wish I *could* forget! As etfb implied above, internet is different down under. For reasons I cannot comprehend (other than avarice on the part of the business owners), internet in Australia comes with "download limits"--anything we do on line, be it as simple as simply looking at a web page counts towards that limit. If we should exceed that limit in a month they reduce us to dial-up speeds for the remainder of the month. With four people in the house that limit is often exceeded. :-(