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How to Handle an Internet Outage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the delirium-tremens dept.

canadian_right writes "Do you know what to do if your internet connection goes down? This article includes many helpful tips, including a functional use for AOL disks."

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  1. Re:Use AOL? Are you nuts? by krisp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps you should have read the article.

    10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk
    If you find that your connection to the Internet is going to be longer than you can possibly stand, as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.

    This article is satire. You must be one of the people referred to in Step 8.

  2. Laptops by bazik · · Score: 3, Informative

    This Article is missing that you can always grab your WLAN enabled Laptop and go War-Driving if your connection is down :)

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    1. Re:Laptops by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Or, just use your bluetooth / GPRS mobile phone, although at around 2 quid / MB it's a bit expensive. Mind you, you could always try forwarding the bill to your ISP...

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  3. DSL is provided by the phone company.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    which has HUGE battery banks and redundant power supplies to keep things up and running if the power company craps out. That's why non-cordless phones still work in a blackout.

    CATV systems rely on utility power to run all the line amplifiers and associated equipment on the poles. When the grid takes a dump, the cable company is dead in the water.

  4. Bad advice on the AOL CD's by mwa · · Score: 2, Informative
    Everyone knows it's "down, not across". (See 5.4)