mara6

Hello everyone! I have been gone because last thursday my broadband stopped working. It took them up to today to fix the tower that went down.

I don't know if anyone missed me, but I missed you all! :approve:

xdalaw

Hey. I know how that is. I lost my DSL last weekend and had to struggle with dial-up until yesterday. Brutal!

mara6

I totally got rid of my old dial up, so I had nothing! :realmad:

xdalaw

Ouch! You gotta sign-up for a free NetZero account (or, something similar) and download the dialer software and keep it on your computer, just in case. I couldn't have handled being completely net-less.

I use Earthlink DSL, so they give me 20 hours of dialup a month as a standard feature. Sometimes comes in handy if I go to a friend's house, too.

We had some electrical storms last weekend and I think that's what fried my DSL modem. Earthlink replaced it for free with a newer model, but my D-link router is a bit messed up. It works fine in default mode, but I can't add WEP or disable my SSID from broadcasting and still connect. So, I'm flying naked for a bit until I fix or replace it.

mara6

yea, not world wide web and email sucked!

qbzonk

Amazing how attahced we get to such luxuries. When hurricane Charley came through I was jones'in for some internet.........or electricity for that matter

Nice to have you back:approve:

mara6

Sorry to hear about the hurricane issue . But thanks for the welcome!