I just switched Internet servers this weekend. It was that or not being able to get heating oil for the house. A savings of over $100 a month made a lot of sense.
It’s easy to switch, right?
Wrong.
Email woes started Sunday morning at 10:30 am and weren’t resolved until 2:30 pm. Seems there were several things they didn’t tell us that made those simple step by steps invalid.
I won’t go into it.
Wrong.
Email woes started Sunday morning at 10:30 am and weren’t resolved until 2:30 pm. Seems there were several things they didn’t tell us that made those simple step by steps invalid.
I won’t go into it.
Suffice it to say, I became very chummy with Todd, the new server’s tech support guy. While we spent those intimate four hours on the phone, I found that as I waited
for some new application to download, my mind wandered. There was Todd with the deep, sexy voice whispering those sweet words I wanted to hear in my ear: “Your mail is up and running, darling. Now I can send you juicy emails about running away with me to a tropical island where there is no Internet, no email. Just you and me sipping a pina colada and making mad, passionate love in a –”
“Er, excuse, me, ma’am. Your email is up now. Please forgive the delay. Is there any way I can make it up to you?”
“Well, Todd, there is….”
At least I got the idea for a story from this….
This is Brigid, Bright Arrow asking you to share your Internet woes with our readers.
See you on the — DANG! My connection was broken!
December 9th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hi Jeanne,
I’m SO grateful I don’t have to deal with the monkeys in customer service. My geek lives with me. I recently lost everything when i opened an attachment containing 60 viruses. It took a week to clean it out and my house got a little cleaner too. LOL. It was a huge pain to use my laptop since I wasn’t used to doing anything but reading on it.
Ash
December 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Yeah, we went through the virus attack on Friday. At the end of October I clicked
on something that ate up all of our games, my WordWebPro and the adobe player
It took two hours to clean that but the firewall that was left up blocked the email
Lord, C***cast makes life miserable to change over!
December 11th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I completely sympathize with your computer woes, Jeanne.
I live ten minutes from a college town, but the spot where I live in the country is in wrong place to get DSL or cable and I can’t get dial-up where I live either without paying a long-distance fee. So I have satellite internet. *shakes head* It’s is the worst.
I get 350 gigabytes of high-speed service every 24 hours. Keep in mind that this includes just surfing the internet. I run a review site, am learning 3D graphic design, homeschool my kids, and my husband also uses the internet. It’s a good day when I manage to get my research both for my writing and the kids schooling without having to reload the pages three times.
Oh, and the weather always affects my service too. For the past few days it’s been raining and I get online only to be knocked off three minutes later. Let’s not even discuss what happens when it gets extremely cold or when it’s a very bright sunny day. *chuckles* The joys of living in the country.
The really aggravating part? If I moved but two miles in either direction, I could have cable or DSL. Two miles. *chuckles again*