Comments on: What to Do When Your Internet Connection is (Gasp!) Disconnected

By: bla

bla — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:17:36 +0000

wtvr!

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:02:11 +0000

[...] is the operative word in “web worker”. Without a reliable web connection, we can’t do our work well and there are some tasks we can’t do at all. So when natural [...]

By: Establishing Internet-free Zones

Establishing Internet-free Zones — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:01:41 +0000

[...] 22nd, 2009 (9:00am) Celine Roque No Comments Last Wednesday I woke up to find that my Internet connection wasn’t working. While I have an alternative 3G connection, I get charged by the half-hour so being perpetually [...]

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Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:16 +0000

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By: Anthony Magliocco

Anthony Magliocco — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:56:02 +0000

Good Suggestion Dual Wan Router. Check out the IBS CiRUS 100 router we offer.
http://www.controlware.de/en/competencies/access-optimization.html
The key difference in our unit is the load balancing as well as the backup funciton. Works nicely with the Verizon and Sprint EVDO cards. Dual WAN routers normally are very expensive.

I have heard in some communities the SLA Service Level Agreement for a DSL line is 3 days. You could do a lot of office cleaning LOL!

By: Pimping Bookmarks:

Pimping Bookmarks: — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:02:59 +0000

[...] What to do when the internet gets disconnected Yipes! Enough said. [...]

By: J Lane

J Lane — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:53:04 +0000

Happens to me quite frequently, unfortunately. It’s the price you pay for living on a small (~1000 person) island off the west coast of Canada.

Internet connection down time is either:

a) writing time.
b) planning/organizing time.
c) family time.

It usually only goes out for an hour at a time, but lately we’ve been having power failures lasting 6 hours or so. I thought I’d be smart and put my gear on a battery backup — too bad the cable company didn’t have the same idea. The network connection still dies in power outages.

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Business Hacks mobile edition — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:00:54 +0000

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By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:51:09 +0000

Great article! I resemble many of those remarks. I telecommute so the Internet connection is somewhere in the realm of importance as oxygen, but hey we can all hold our breath a little ;-). As for my internet service provider, like most of them, it has it’s moments but they are rare so props to them.

By: Juliej

Juliej — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:38:33 +0000

My connection was down for two months (just because my ISP wasn’t really doing his job … this is really a shame and I wonder if this could happen in the US, (I’m in France)), everything is fine now since two days (I also found a “real” ISP).

Although I need a connection for my work as a developer, this has made my way of working change a lot, I think I’ll never use an IM client again (for work purposes), I can leave messages to my contacts via email, the IM client solution is just a waste of time (a bit like the chat at the coffee machine in the office), nor do I check my google reader suscribtions every half and hour, I do that before and after work now.

Finally, this experience really showed me that the more “user friendly” the web gets; the more time I spend on it, and actually about half the things I used to do weren’t really related to work, I’ve also noticed that my productivity has increased …

So this was a “good” experience, but I just cross my fingers so that it doesn’t happen again :)

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:00:46 +0000

and to think I just use my back up internet connection…

By: s flattem

s flattem — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:50:36 +0000

I am retired, so if my connection goes down, my actual production goes up…it forces me to do the work around the house that I should be doing…when I did work [inventory control and production scheduling for a plastics injection company...on 2d shift], I instituted the ‘rule of 8′…if the system wasn’t up by 8pm…I went home.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:56:43 +0000

When the Intenret goes down, I go into overdrive – such is the life of a Network Administrator in an organization that lives on constant contact through e-mail, Blackberry, etc. When that pipe goes down, I’ve got one phone on speaker, two or three other phones going and a hoarde of people kicking in my office door.

Thankfully, our connection rarely goes down.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:45:33 +0000

I use the slow-but-free wireless connection that’s broadcast from the school across the street from my house.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:34:45 +0000

How fortuitous — this happened to me yesterday 3pm-5pm and then first thing this morning (IT guy killed the router then tried replacing it with some second-hand crap, thinking no one would notice!)

You know what I did? Drove back home .. ‘coz I’m installing Joomla! for a client and absolutely need my ‘net connection…

By: NET9

NET9 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:03:42 +0000

Don’t for get sleep. People need that every now and then. ;)